Revolutionary Rants

A band I am rediscovering at the moment is the Divine Comedy. I say ‘rediscovering’, but truth be told when I first met Chris – when I was undertaking a university ‘work placement’ in near by Wakefield, meaning I had a 30 minute train journey each way morning and evening, plus another half hour of walking to get home (although I was usually met by my Prince charming at the station in the evening) – I had nothing on my little old Walkman but Neil Hannon and Co’s ‘Greatest Hits’.

Their whole repertoire has memories of my bedroom of adolescence – in Ireland – listening to late night 2FM (a hideous Irish national radio station employing many shite old DJs, and one very good one – Uaneen Fitzsimons – who was killed in a car crash). They are about as different from the Manics as you can get, but I love their middle-class musings and orchestra based pomp and splendor all the same!

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