Olivia Rodrigo makes it 16 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with SOUR.
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Since signing his first record deal at the tender age of just 20, Neil Hannon aka The Divine Comedy has enjoyed 30 years of gleefully disruptive pop releases.
This week sees Neil release his second greatest hits as The Divine Comedy, Charmed Life - the standard edition of which contains a blockbuster 24 (!) tracks.
To celebrate the release, we jumped on Zoom with Neil to discuss his career journey, why it's so hard to kill your darlings and what little we could get out of him about his work on the new Wonka prequel, starring Timothee Chalamet.
Well, the first one [1999's greatest hits collection A Secret History] was more of a contractual obligation. [Back then], you know, there was still plenty to put on it. But [to get to do it again] is lovely. It's lovely to get to the stage where there's far too many songs. Then you have to make some hard decisions about what makes it on.
It was a problem, because sometimes you release songs to get on the radio, which means you tend to release the same kind of stuff, over and over again. If you had a double album full of that, you'd just get bored. So we left some of those out - the sort of less of important ones. We put quite a few songs on that have gained notoriety; say, the ones the fans really like or [Songs of Love] the theme of Father Ted.
Primarily [title track] Charmed Life, which was off our 2004 album Absent Friends, that was never released as a single. I mean, it is five and a half minutes long, but people seem to really enjoy the sentiment, and it seemed to sum the whole thing up rather nicely!
The thing is now is that I remember just how little I knew. At the time, I had no clue. I was an idiot. At that age, you have no idea how things work. Looking back, decades
Olivia Rodrigo makes it 16 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with SOUR.
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