The Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (23CD/DVD Boxset) (Pre-Order)

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Title : The Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time. Format : 23CD/DVD Boxset. Label : Divine Comedy Records. Cat Num : DCRL117RCDBX. Barcode : 5024545892529

In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remasteringand reissuing nine of the band’s classic albums.  The nine reissued albums have been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright (Blur, The Smiths). Overseeing the audio throughout the campaign is engineer / mixer / producer Guy Massey, whosework on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award. The CDs consist of two discs: the remastered original album, with asecond CD of B-sides, demos and alternate versions lovingly curated by Neil Hannon, much of which has never been heard before. The CD release of ‘A Short Album About Love’ comes with a DVD of ‘A Short Film About A Short Album About Love’, a previously unreleased 50-minute film of the Shepherds Bush Empire concert at which A Short Album About Love’ was recorded. Each CD comes with a booklet of photos, credits and extensive liner notes written by Neil covering the context and inspiration behind the album and its songs. 

The twelve volume boxset ‘Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time: Thirty Years of The Divine Comedy’ brings together all the remastered CD albums plus a disc each of bonus material, as well as new double CD editions of 2016’s ‘Foreverland’ and 2019’s ‘Office Politics’ updated with bonus material and liner notes. It also features ‘Juveneilia’, a boxset exclusive 2CD compilation of early material put together by Neil fromhis personal archive, including recordings stretching back to as earlyas 1984. It contains the ‘lost’ 1990 album ‘Fanfare For The ComicMuse’ and the long out-of-print ‘Timewatch’ and ‘Europop’ EPs.

 Box set contains the twelve albums ‘Juveneilia’, ‘Liberation’,‘Promenade’, ‘Casanova’, ‘A Short Album About Love’, ‘Fin de Siècle’,‘Regeneration’, ‘Absent Friends’, ‘Victory For The Comic Muse’, ‘BangGoes The Knighthood’, ‘Foreverland’ and ‘Office Politics’.

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Title : The Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time. Format : 23CD/DVD Boxset. Label : Divine Comedy Records. Cat Num : DCRL117RCDBX. Barcode : 5024545892529

In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remasteringand reissuing nine of the band’s classic albums.  The nine reissued albums have been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright (Blur, The Smiths). Overseeing the audio throughout the campaign is engineer / mixer / producer Guy Massey, whosework on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award. The CDs consist of two discs: the remastered original album, with asecond CD of B-sides, demos and alternate versions lovingly curated by Neil Hannon, much of which has never been heard before. The CD release of ‘A Short Album About Love’ comes with a DVD of ‘A Short Film About A Short Album About Love’, a previously unreleased 50-minute film of the Shepherds Bush Empire concert at which A Short Album About Love’ was recorded. Each CD comes with a booklet of photos, credits and extensive liner notes written by Neil covering the context and inspiration behind the album and its songs. 

The twelve volume boxset ‘Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time: Thirty Years of The Divine Comedy’ brings together all the remastered CD albums plus a disc each of bonus material, as well as new double CD editions of 2016’s ‘Foreverland’ and 2019’s ‘Office Politics’ updated with bonus material and liner notes. It also features ‘Juveneilia’, a boxset exclusive 2CD compilation of early material put together by Neil fromhis personal archive, including recordings stretching back to as earlyas 1984. It contains the ‘lost’ 1990 album ‘Fanfare For The ComicMuse’ and the long out-of-print ‘Timewatch’ and ‘Europop’ EPs.

 Box set contains the twelve albums ‘Juveneilia’, ‘Liberation’,‘Promenade’, ‘Casanova’, ‘A Short Album About Love’, ‘Fin de Siècle’,‘Regeneration’, ‘Absent Friends’, ‘Victory For The Comic Muse’, ‘BangGoes The Knighthood’, ‘Foreverland’ and ‘Office Politics’.

 

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