The Divine Comedy Announce UK & Irish Dates

New Album From The Divine Comedy

‘Foreverland’ Released September 2nd

18 UK & Irish Dates Including A Palladium Show

With their eagerly anticipated eleventh album ‘Foreverland’ due for release September 2nd, The Divine Comedy have announced 18 UK & Irish dates (alongside a full European tour) this October and early in 2017.

Since The Divine Comedy’s inception in 1989, Neil Hannon has time and again proved to be one of the UK’s best and most original songwriters. New album ‘Foreverland’ exemplifies this, with references to everything from Catherine The Great to the French Foreign Legion. Neil says of the new record, ‘it’s about meeting your soul mate and living happily ever after… and then what comes after happily ever after. Get ready for the most historically inaccurate hit of the summer’.

While not releasing a record since 2010’s ‘Bang Goes The Knighthood’, Neil Hannon has certainly kept himself busy. He co-wrote a second album for acclaimed cricket-themed project, The Duckworth Lewis Method, composed a choral work for the Royal Festival Hall’s newly renovated organ entitled ‘To Our Fathers In Distress’, and oversaw the transfer of his musical, Swallows And Amazons, to the West End stage.

Tickets on sale Friday May 20^th 9am. For more information go to www.thedivinecomedy.com The Divine Comedy Play:

October

Fri 7^th                           ABERYSTWYTH, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Sat 8^th                         CARDIFF, Tramshed

Sun 9^th                        BRISTOL, St. Georges

Tue 11^th                      LEEDS, City Varieties Music Hall

Wed 12^th                    GLASGOW, Royal Concert Hall

Fri 14^th                         LIVERPOOL, St. George’s Hall

Sat 15^th                       SHEFFIELD, The Foundry

Sun 16^th                      SCUNTHORPE, Baths Hall

Mon 17^th                    NEWCASTLE, Sage Gateshead

Wed 19^th                    LEAMINGTON SPA, Assembly Rooms

Thu 20^th                       CAMBRIDGE, Junction

Fri 21^st                         FOLKSTONE, Quarterhouse

Sat 22^nd                      NORWICH, Open

Mon 24^th                    BIRMINGHAM, Town Hall

Tue 25^th                      BEXHILL, De La Warr Pavilion

February

Tue 21^st                       LONDON, Palladium

Sat 25^th                       MANCHESTER, Albert Hall

Sun 26^th                      DUBLIN, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

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