Appreciation... a new single from The Divine Comedy

Bang goes the new Divine Comedy! I fancy this single!



The Divine Comedy's new single "At The Indie Disco" is taken from the new album
Bang Goes The Knighthood which is out now in the UK & Ireland!

Greatest appreciation... God Help the Girl

On June 22ND, I had the good fortune to see Camera Obscura in Philly at the Theatre of Living Arts and the show as well as the entire day was incredible! I forgot how much fun shopping on South Street can be. Especially cool was devoting some serious time to some serious searching for music at Repo Records! I came out of there with some cool finds like an Adorable collection, an old Idlewild CD, a Voxtrot EP, and several other older items, but the two new album purchases for the day were the new Regina Spektor and the Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian spin off concept musical story project, God Help the Girl.

It's an ambitious project and the result is an infectious album that I can't stop listening to even now some three weeks later. The project is supported by a fine website featuring music, videos, news, and all sorts of information on the players and the tale. While I've been lamenting the lack of a new Belle and Sebastian album for some time now, I will say I couldn't be more pleased with this distraction for the band. This project musically offers all the classic sophisticated pop sounds one expects from Stuart and the gang with the flavour of the best girl groups of the sixties thanks to the musical addition of a cast of superbly talented female vocalists.

Here's the video introduction to the project!


Also check out the video for the single "Come Monday Morning"



And if you are still with me, here's a behind the scenes clip I'm including mostly because you can catch a bit of guest vocalist, Neil Hannon's contribution on the track "Perfection as a Hipster" during the beginning of this segment.



Next posts will cover the Camera Obscura show, Anni Rossi, and the new Regina Spektor album! Stay tuned!

Appreciation... Lady of a Certain Age live

Idle time spent on YouTube led me to this little gem -my favourite track from Neil Hannon's Divine Comedy album Victory for the Comic Muse.

Appreciation... For the English Romantic in you! Poetry meets Music meets Film.

I just discovered a fan made video for Neil Hannon's setting of Wordsworth's fifth "Lucy" poem to music from the Divine Comedy album Liberation which is used here to soundtrack a segment of A Journey to Avebury which is avant garde filmmaker, Derek Jarman's 1971 silent short landscape film. I am impressed how such various works of art cross paths with this video.



This is Jarman's original film.

Completion... Final Post for "Tonight..."

"Tonight We Fly" that is... a little Divine Comedy to end the day with as sleep beckons. One of their best songs, and quite possibly one of the best songs I've ever had the pleasure to discover. A song hopefully to be discovered by others. So with that...

"This is the end... cheers to you all... thanks for coming..."



Good night!

Distraction... Duke Special ~ Our Love Goes Deeper Than This

Haven't been able to get this song out of my head all day...