Divine Comedy (Other Stage, Sunday)

They’ve been around for a while but I’d never seen them. With a feast of good music on the Other Stage I decided to hang around and watch them. I’m so glad I did, as they really made my Sunday afternoon.

A natural showman their lead singer has the gift of the gab and is hugely entertaining at one point sitting down to smoke a cigarette so he can, “listen to his band, they’re quite good!” and at another informing us that he’s okay because he only got here two hours ago.



He has an assuming style with which befriends the audience with ease and we laugh at the jokes. He dedicates Generation Sex to the UKIP and talks about parents of Goths before launching into Happy Goth and doesn’t play National Express, which is the one of the few tunes of theirs I know.

They more than make up for this with a fantastic rendition of Queen of the Stone Age’s No One Knows and it’s inspired he says he hope the ginger fella doesn’t come looking for him for murdering the song but quite the opposite they’ve done it well.

The set though is very short at only three quarters of an hour and I’d love for them to come back and do double that. They’re definitely a good choice for a festival booking and afterwards the weather of the day before was totally forgotten.

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