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, withreferences toeverything from Catherine The Great to the French Foreign Legion. Neil saysof the new record, 'it'sabout 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'.

Whilenot releasing a record since 2010's 'Bang Goes The Knighthood', Neil Hannon has certainly kept himselfbusy. He co-wrotea 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 20th 9am. For more information go to www.thedivinecomedy.com The Divine Comedy Play:

October

Fri 7th ABERYSTWYTH, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Sat 8th CARDIFF, Tramshed

Sun 9th BRISTOL, St. Georges

Tue 11th LEEDS, City Varieties Music Hall

Wed 12th GLASGOW, Royal Concert Hall

Fri 14th LIVERPOOL, St. George’s Hall

Sat 15th SHEFFIELD, The Foundry

Sun 16th SCUNTHORPE, Baths Hall

Mon 17th NEWCASTLE, Sage Gateshead

Wed 19th LEAMINGTON SPA, Assembly Rooms

Thu 20th CAMBRIDGE, Junction

Fri 21st FOLKSTONE, Quarterhouse

Sat 22nd NORWICH, Open

Mon 24th BIRMINGHAM, Town Hall

Tue 25th BEXHILL – De La Warr Pavilion

P.T.O For London and Dublin Dates in February

February

Tue 21st LONDON, Palladium

Sat 25th MANCHESTER, Albert Hall

Sun 26th DUBLIN, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

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