Neil Hannon
Edward Neil Anthony Hannon is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy. He wrote the theme tunes for the television sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Hannon continues to release albums under the Divine Comedy name.
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Edward Neil Anthony Hannon is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy. He wrote the theme tunes for the television sitcoms Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Hannon continues to release albums under the Divine Comedy name. He won the 2007 Choice Music Prize for his 2006 album, Victory for the Comic Muse. He has also collaborated with Thomas Walsh, Niamh McLaughlin, Eoin Connolly and Keane. He left EMI by’mutual consent’ in July 2015 and he won the 2015 Legend Award from the Oh Yeah organisation in Belfast. He was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of Brian Hannon, a Church of Ireland minister in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and later Bishop of Clogher.
He spent some of his youth in Fivemiletown before moving with his family to Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh, in 1982. In 2000 he and Joby Talbot contributed four tracks for Ute Lemper’s collaboration album, Punishing Kiss. In 2004 he played alongside the Ulster Orchestra for the opening event of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s. In 2005, he contributed vocals to his long-time collaborator JobyTalbot’s soundtrack for the movie version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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