The Divine Comedy - The Complete Banker (Sugar Club Dublin, 7th May 2010)

[robert140602]

Brilliant !!

[TonightWeFly7]

What kind of camera do you use, sighkid? Your videos always look gorgeous.

This should have been the third single from the album.

[sighkid]

@TonightWeFly7 Thanks! Although I always tend to mess around with videos after filming them (removing shake etc) so there's more to it than just using the right camera. Camera on this particular video was a Sanyo VPC-HD1000 although I've got through two more since then (Gotta find new toys!) Actually I'm open to offers on it as it's sat in my drawer unused for the last year.

And yeah, I agree about this as a single, especially as the lyrics have been consistently topical for the last year.

[4TheDoctor2]

One complete banker doesn't like this video

[AlexPolkey]

Saw him last night in Belfast, very good.

[jewelgirl86]

Brilliant!

[lordbucko]

love this song so spot on thanks Neil

[GayGeisha]

All hail the inspiring genius of Neil Hannon and the divine comedy! Been a fan ever since I heard My Lovely Horse =D

[Trotsetukker]

I gave a few friends my cd's from the divine. It took some time for them to start liking it but now they totally caught it! There's just nothing like it and i still discover songs that i did'nt notice before and now are part of the soudtrack of my life!

Neil Hannon is to modern music what terry Gilliam and Jim Jarmush are to cinematography. Only he is director but also plays the main caracter!

[TitchTV]

Great post!! Saw him at The Hard Rock in Manchester Monday just gone and he was superb!! The new album is superb too. Thinking I'm liking it even more than Casanova.

[luiginewbould]

This song has the most fantastic lyrics I have ever heard.

[mraok]

if i say im sorry.. could you give me some money 8Bn would be a nice start

[urbancowboyfunk]

i work as an AV technician for a predominant bank. today, i managed to play this as walk-in music for an internal conference.

ha!

obviously i got away with it because bankers don't understand music, all music is filtered out to it's component financial parts: how much the instruments cost, what was the profit ratio on the CD cases. that sort of thing.

to a banker, the lyrics of this song just sound like the buzz of a hornet in a dildo factory, but to me it was a glorious fanfare of triumph.

[sighkid]

@urbancowboyfunk heh nice one :)

[Longfei87]

@urbancowboyfunk

Awesome!!!!

[burchovic]

@urbancowboyfunk haha,great!

[pawnshopguitars]

@urbancowboyfunk This is the single greatest comment I have ever seen on youtube; so much so that I felt compelled to actually SIGN IN to youtube, leaving this page and finding the video again after signing in just to post this comment. I take my hat off to you sir, and hope you continue to 'stick it to the man' like this for a long time to come.

[Em3hre]

@urbancowboyfunk Oh, the irony! I consider this a great feat. Well done

[LeRoi715]

thanks God we have independent artist like Mr Neil!

Cheers!

Great pleasure to listen and enjoy it !

[logitek256]

great artist!

[Stepbystep3007]

This title is just brilliant !!! Well done !

[lilmissnorty5]

love this song .. i saw it live too :D

[turnover7]

Very sarcastic and smart song about the recession. I love his writing.

[yeovil50]

Great song from a great song writer...and such a nice guy!. He always seems so humble. Top man ..

[JaThCa96]

i was there yesterday in london :) he was amazing! :D

[PeterZeeke]

brilliant song

[Zunetime]

You are a legand. I sat beside u at the gig. Great stuff. Mark.

[brilliantcolors7]

You did a wonderful job with these videos. This is such a great song, I have a feeling that Bang Goes The Knighthood is going to be Neil's best since Promenade.

I love the melody where he sings "how i hanker for the good old days". Can't wait to hear what the album version is like.

[mschulze0]

Thanks for uploading. I saw him the next day (8th May) in Germany (guess it was the same setlist) and I'd really like to have your complete recording on my harddisk. Maybe we can work something out?

[sighkid]

@mschulze0 heya sorry as you know Neil played a lot of new songs and I don't want to distribute them at this stage. Also the original files are 1080i HD and GBs in size; so it would be a real pain to distribute them. But I hope to upload more of them on here eventually.

[frozenfood1]

the hook here is so good