Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Songs of love, refrains of affection, and the melody that veers between a comic Jacques Brel and a sombre Noel Coward, a mixture of perfect timing and witty panache…arguably there is no one quite like Neil Hannon, and no name like The Divine Comedy in which to feel the enjoyment of the national love of words, of striking the balance between the entertaining observation and the delicate, often precisely subtle piercing that comes from the sharpened, easy on the ears humour.