A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy" (PDF). Music & Media . Retrieved 14 November 2020. Months later I did finally buy 'Expecting To Fly' by The Bluetones but sold it within a year and like the rest of the world, totally forgot about it. Meanwhile 'Casanova' still gets plenty of plays from me today and I still haven't found much music as touching as its best moments. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2. A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 14 November 2020.

As the record comes to a close we are welcomed with the euphoric serenade 'The Dogs & The Horses' which stands as an incredible epitaph to The Divine Comedy's earlier more humble works. Recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios the song is the most grandiose of 'Casanova' and may even have you shedding a tear as Hannon plays out the record's last goodbye. a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Divine Comedy – Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 September 2020. A Short Album About Love peaked at No. 21 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy The album Casanova (1996), and in particular the single " Something for the Weekend", championed by Chris Evans, then BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ and presenter of TFI Friday, led to the band's first major success. [3] Casanova was the third album to be produced by Darren Allison and Neil Hannon, thus completing a trilogy of albums which began with Liberation in 1993. [4] Further singles from Casanova, including "Becoming More Like Alfie" and "The Frog Princess", both of which received some airplay, and further cemented the band's reputation.

Neil Hannon – bass, guitar, percussion, piano, arranger, Hammond organ, vocals, producer, tympani [timpani], art direction, Wurlitzer It might be argued - and I'm sure many of my colleagues will - that The Divine Comedy are a little too weighty and intellectual for current tastes but artistry shouldn't be limited by the marketplace and if this LP only sells half-a-dozen copies, it'll still be a triumph. Clayton-Lea, Tony (9 October 2020). "The Divine Comedy: Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time review – 30 years of smart pop". The Irish Times . Retrieved 8 September 2021. Charmed Life – The Best of the Divine Comedy". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 14 February 2022. The single release in the UK came two weeks before Super Furry Animals released their own song Something For The Weekend, from their album Fuzzy Logic as a single. The latter band changed their title to "Something 4 The Weekend".

The Smiths-esque 'In & Out Of London & Paris' also pushes the camp carry-on sex capers with witty abandon, subverting the Hokey-Kokey to amusingly smutty effect ("In out in out, shake it all about"), while the beautiful 'Songs Of Love' is immediately nostalgic and recognizable for being the theme-tune of the popular British sit-com Father Ted. Hall, Russell. "Review: Casanova". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on 14 April 2001 . Retrieved 30 October 2020. a b c d The History of The Secret History (CD booklet). The Divine Comedy. Setanta Records. SETCDL100. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) On 2 September 2016, The Divine Comedy released their eleventh album Foreverland. A live album featuring performances from the 2016–17 Foreverland tour, "Loose Canon", was released digitally on 16 February 2018 after being made available as a CD on the tour.Larman, Alexander (13 October 2020). "The Divine Comedy at 30". The Critic . Retrieved 10 November 2021. A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy" (PDF). Music & Media . Retrieved 12 November 2020. Violin – Alex Postlethwaite, Alice Pratley, Anna Giddey, Colum Pettit, Emile Chitikow*, Eos Councell*, Jethro Shirley-Smith, Laura Samuel, Leonie Curtin, Mark Knight (2), Padraic Savage, Rebecca Hayes (2), Roberto Borzoni, Sylvia Kapp, Yuri Kalnitz*

Cohen, Jason (17 April 1997). "The Divine Comedy: Casanova". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007 . Retrieved 13 April 2020. Watch: The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon grapples with a lovely horse in My Lovely Horse Rescue campaign video". The Independent. 20 September 2018 . Retrieved 10 January 2019. Micallef, Ken. " Casanova – Review". Dotmusic. Archived from the original on 30 August 2004 . Retrieved 13 April 2020. Woods, Mikael (7 March 2002). "Ben Folds, Divine Comedy". Dallas Observer . Retrieved 13 November 2021.Charmed Life, [26] a double compilation album was released on 4 February 2022. Special limited edition copies included a bonus album, simply named Super Extra Bonus Album. [27] Ten days after its release, Charmed Life claimed the number one spot on the Official Independent Albums Chart. A European tour of Charmed Life has been announced. [28] Band members [ edit ] This Casanova is both a complete sleaze (“There is not a woman alive who cannot be conquered”) and a tortured romantic haunted by the various loves he’s left behind. The women seem to be giddily enjoying themselves, although as Casanova’s advances move from flattering to cajoling to domineering, it’s impossible not to feel ill at ease in the #MeToo era. Potter may skirt the darkness but it’s still simmering beneath. The writer was sexually abused by his uncle as a 10-year-old. Talking about it in the 1990s, he said: “I was trapped by an adult’s sexual appetite.” It feels like that’s the story he’s telling here about Casanova’s young “conquests”. Choice Music Prize". RTÉ.ie. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 26 March 2021.