Neil's no Silly Billy

• 27th Mar 2004

Come Home Billy Bird, the new single from The Divine Comedy, came out on Monday, and is taken from the forthcoming album Absent Friends. Described as “cerebral, heartfelt & delicately constructed… the old warmth of early Divine Comedy is back in style” (Word), it would seem that The DC are back on form.

And so it might be worthwhile catching them on tour:

Liverpool – Royal Court Theatre
Sunday 25th April
Tickets £15
Box office details are:tel: 0151 709 4321, link
Wayahead: 01159 129000, Piccadilly: 0161 832 1111

London – Palladium
Monday 26th April
Tickets £17.50
Box office details are: tel: 020 7494 5409, Credit Card Hotline: 0207 287 0932
Wayahead: 0207 403 3331, Stargreen: 0207 734 8932, link

Edinburgh – Usher Hall
Tuesday 27th April
Tickets £16.50
Box Office details are: venue tel: 0131 228 1155, link,
www.scotland.ticketmaster.co.uk, Ripping Records and Tickets Scotland.
Queens Hall, Edinburgh also sells tickets for Usher Hall. For details ring 0131 668 2019 or visit link

Paris – Le Grand Rex
Thursday 29th April
Tickets EUR29 + 3.5 booking fees.
Box Office website link then click on 'evenements', Fnac – link phone: 0892 68 36 22 Phone: +33 1 49 87 50 50 from abroad, Ticket Net: link

Dublin – Gaiety
Sunday 2nd May
Tickets EUR30 / EUR27.50 + booking fee
Box office details are: tel: (01) 677 1717, Ticketmaster 24hr credit card line: 0818 719 300, link

www.thedivinecomedy.com