I'm enjoying another much-deserved day off, so I'm not going to hang around here writing another blog post nobody will read. Well, not for long.
Last night, we raced off to a packed (oversold, if you ask me) Manchester Academy 2 for an evening with Neil Hannon. Yes, he's still the Divine Comedy, but it's pretty much just him these days: on piano, occasionally guitar, but mostly voice - that utterly distinctive, bastard-son-of-Noel-Coward voice we love so much. Yes, he does get a bit Richard Stilgoe at times these days, but there's nothing wrong with that. He's an artist who sometimes uses humour in his storytelling, or to get his message across... there's really nothing wrong with that, you know.
Great Human League cover too... he should release that.
