The Divine Comedy - Our Mutual Friend (Live at the BBC)

[bloodnokian]

Perfect.

[GyOm1976]

1:54 love it ;-)

[macionractaigh]

Contae Doire!

[DiscoGames]

Great song. Pitty all of his other compositions are nonsense in comparison

[icecoldinalex]

that's... ridiculous!

[JohnMCoulthard]

What a crock of shit.

[theadamandjoehoe]

"One of the best English songwriters and singers EVER". Lol.

[nialld1990]

We preformed this in Washington DC last summer in the Kennedy Centre, the Americans of course had never heard of it but they loved it.

Proud to be Irish

[miyoutube]

Too good!

[mocarro]

Really really amazing. Thanks for posting this! You're right, I loved it!

(FYI he's not English though, he's Northern Irish)

[Ceolteor]

Ireland did well with Neil Hannon :-)

[DvdGMMMMMMM]

Simply incredible!!, beautiful song, wonderful singer, marvelous lyric, perfect band.

[BernardTunes]

I love it

And yes English MY hole too

He's ours

[DamianoCunegodagreat]

english my hole!!

[Pickwick81]

Your hole? But why? Why not my hole? Or his hole? Or her hole? What's with the hole? English? Northern Irish? Aren't we all just ants out of our hole?

[DamianoCunegodagreat]

What!!!English has nothing to do with fucking Fermanagh and Derry!!!!

[nialld1990]

shove it up your own hole

[SinAutor]

he isnt english.he is northern irish

[gibbo795]

I always thought he was Irish...

[Argantonio]

(yep, and he was born in Londonderry)

[Ceolteor]

DERRY! Lol.

[Argantonio]

The Divine Comedy - Sunrise Lyrics -

I was born in Londonderry

I was born in Derry City too

Oh what a special child

To see such things and still to smile

I know that there was something wrong

But I kept my head down and carried on

[mocarro]

Ah, I see you've already been told.

Londonderry is in Northern Ireland, you're confusing it with London, which is indeed in England.

The lyrics you quote are about the violence in Derry during the 'troubles', Unionists typically called it Londonderry, while Nationalists called it Derry. It was as though they were two different cities, but make no mistake - they are the same place. :)

[m0302807]

my god. what a singer!

[BexTheFrogPrincess]

its nice to know jonathon ross has good taste in music! i love this song!

[Weepingwine1]

He sang this at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh last month - brilliant!!

[rotaroza]

weeping like a lemon moon.... neil hannon is drunken poet

[fiouk]

Posiblemente la canción más hermosa que haya escuchado, y les he visto en Madrid hace un mes !!

[crazywoodlouse]

this was one of the songs that changed how i think about music, it was so beautiful, that bit where he sustains his last note and the strings are going for it, MWAH I LOVE IT!!!!