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.
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