Foreverland

HE TOLD us we'd be sick of him by the end of the year, and now Neil Hannon looks set to make good on this threat with a string of Divine Comedy Irish dates this December.

GIVEN that The Divine Comedy's biggest hit is their jaunty ode to coach travel, National Express, it seems entirely appropriate that bandleader Neil Hannon should now be in contention to become the official 'face' of an actual piece of public transport.

DERRY-born, Enniskillen-reared Neil Hannon admits he wasn't partisan when it came to music, growing up the son of a Church of Ireland minister and later bishop.