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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy is a group from the UK, active since 1991.

Group GB since 1991 chamber pop baroque pop indie rock
TOTAL PLAYS
2,281
SONGS PLAYED
153
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-15 13:28 · 6 Music — "Come Home Billy Bird"
LAST PLAYED
1 week ago · 6 Music — "The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,223 54%
Radio 2 1,045 46%
Radio 1 13 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 17:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 National Express 694 2026-04-09
2 Something for the Weekend 361 2026-05-07
3 Becoming More Like Alfie 141 2025-12-08
4 Everybody Knows (Except You) 93 2025-02-14
5 At the Indie Disco 80 2021-03-14
6 I Like 75 2023-02-25
7 To the Rescue 72 2018-12-28
8 Diva Lady 56 2018-10-29
9 Norman and Norma 49 2025-09-25
10 Absent Friends 40 2025-01-11
11 To Die A Virgin 40 2011-04-26
12 Tonight We Fly 37 2025-12-10
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-12 16:50 The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count 6 Music
2026-05-07 18:03 Something for the Weekend Radio 2
2026-04-09 17:04 National Express Radio 2
2026-03-30 08:03 National Express Radio 2
2026-03-21 22:03 National Express Radio 2
2026-02-25 02:04 National Express Radio 2
2026-02-20 03:38 The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count Radio 2
2026-02-18 17:31 National Express Radio 2
2026-02-10 06:56 National Express Radio 2
2026-02-04 01:47 My Lovely Horse Radio 2
2026-02-03 05:29 National Express Radio 2
2026-01-16 15:14 National Express Radio 2
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

153 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Drinking Song — 2 ▶
A Lady of a Certain Age — 9 ▶
A Lady Of A Certain Age — 6 ▶
A Lady Of A Certain Age (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
Abesent Friends / Tonight We Fly - Glastonbury 2004 — 2 ▶
Absent Friends — 40 ▶
Absent Friends (6 Music Session, 03 Dec 2025) — 3 ▶
Absent Friends / Tonight We Fly - Glastonbury 2004 — 6 ▶
Absolutely Obsolete — 2 ▶
Achilles — 7 ▶
Achillies — 1 ▶
Alfie — 4 ▶
Alfie - BBC Session 1998 — 3 ▶
Alfie - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
All The Pretty Lights — 14 ▶
All the Pretty Lights (6 Music Session, 03 Dec 2025) — 2 ▶
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World — 2 ▶
Arthur C. Clarkes Mysterious World — 1 ▶
At the Indie Disco — 80 ▶
At The Indie Disco (6Music Session, 28 May 2010) — 1 ▶
At the Indie Disco (Live) — 1 ▶
At The Indie Disco - 6Music Session 28/05/2010 — 2 ▶
Bad Ambassador — 13 ▶
Bang Goes the Knighthood — 2 ▶
Bang Goes The Knighthood (6 Music Session, 03 Dec 2025) — 1 ▶
Becoming More Like Alfie — 141 ▶
Becoming More Like Alfie 1997 — 1 ▶
Becoming More Like Alfie (BBC Session 1998) — 6 ▶
Becoming More Like Alfie/Diva Lady/National Express — 1 ▶
Bernice Bobs Her Hair — 3 ▶
Booklovers — 3 ▶
Can You Stand Upon One Leg — 1 ▶
Catherine the Great — 22 ▶
Charmed Life — 2 ▶
Come Home Billy Bird — 36 ▶
Come Home Billy Bird / Becoming More Like Alfie - Glastonbury 2004 — 8 ▶
Computor Love - Cambridge Junction 1998 — 1 ▶
Daddy's Car — 4 ▶
Daddy's Car - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Diva Lady — 56 ▶
Diva Lady (Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
Diva Lady (Summer Sundae 2007) — 1 ▶
Diva Lady - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Divine Comedy Lp — 1 ▶
Don't Look Down — 3 ▶
Don't Look Down - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Down in the Street Below — 1 ▶
Eric the Gardener — 1 ▶
Eric the Gardener (acoustic) — 1 ▶
Everybody Knows — 1 ▶
Everybody Knows (Except You) — 93 ▶
Everybody Knows That I Love You (Except You) - (Radio 2 Session, 09 June 2019) — 1 ▶
Festive Road — 1 ▶
Freedom (edited) — 1 ▶
Frog Princess — 1 ▶
Generation Sex — 6 ▶
Generation Sex - BBC Session 1998 — 1 ▶
Generation Sex (Glastonbury, 27 Jun 2004) — 1 ▶
Generation Sex - Glastonbury 1998 — 1 ▶
Generation Sex - Glastonbury 2004 — 10 ▶
Generation Sex - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Gin Soaked Boy — 25 ▶
Happy Goth — 1 ▶
Have You Ever Been In Love — 4 ▶
Have You Ever Been In Love? — 2 ▶
How Can You Leave Me on My Own — 5 ▶
I Like — 75 ▶
I've Been to a Marvellous Party — 3 ▶
If — 1 ▶
If - Cambridge Junction 1998 — 1 ▶
If.... — 1 ▶
Infernal Machines — 5 ▶
Invisible Thread — 11 ▶
Lady of a Certain Age — 1 ▶
Lady Of A Certain Age - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Lady Of A Certian Age — 2 ▶
Laikas Theme — 2 ▶
Lay All Your Love On Me (Radio 2 Session, 12 July 2019) — 3 ▶
Light Of Day - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Lost Property — 1 ▶
Lucy — 7 ▶
Lucy - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Make It Easy on Yourself — 1 ▶
Make It Easy On Yourself (Live) — 1 ▶
Mastermind — 3 ▶
Mastermind (Summer Sundae 2007) — 1 ▶
Mastermind - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Mother Dear — 2 ▶
My Imaginary Friend — 1 ▶
My Lovely Horse — 10 ▶
My Lovely Horse (from Father Ted) — 1 ▶
Napolean Complex — 1 ▶
Napoleon Complex — 1 ▶
National Express — 694 ▶
National Express - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
No Excuses — 1 ▶
No One Knows (Glastonbury, 27 Jun 2004) — 1 ▶
No One Knows — 1 ▶
No One Knows - Glastonbury 2004 — 9 ▶
No One Knows - Live — 1 ▶
Norman and Norma — 49 ▶
Norman and Norma - (Radio 2 Session, 09 June 2019) — 3 ▶
Office Politics — 2 ▶
Our Mutual Friend — 12 ▶
Perfect Lovesong — 4 ▶
Philip and Steve's Furniture Removal Company — 3 ▶
Queuejumper — 9 ▶
Something for the Weekend — 361 ▶
Something for The Weekend (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Songs of Love — 31 ▶
Songs Of Love (6Music Session, 28 May 2010) — 1 ▶
Songs Of Love (Glastonbury, 27 Jun 2004) — 1 ▶
Songs Of Love (Theme From 'Father Ted') — 1 ▶
Songs Of Love - 6 Music Session 28/05/2010 — 1 ▶
Songs Of Love - 6Music Session 28/05/2010 — 2 ▶
Songs Of Love - Glastonbury 2004 — 8 ▶
Sunrise — 5 ▶
Sunrise - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Sweden — 3 ▶
Sweden - Cambridge Junction 1998 — 1 ▶
The Best Mistakes — 10 ▶
The Booklovers — 4 ▶
The Certainty of Chance — 1 ▶
The Complete Banker — 5 ▶
The Complete Banker (6 Music Session, 28th May 2010) — 1 ▶
The Frog Princess — 6 ▶
The Happy Goth — 1 ▶
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (6 Music Session, 03 Dec 2025) — 1 ▶
The Last Time I Saw The Old Man — 7 ▶
The Life and Soul of the Party — 2 ▶
The Light Of Day — 1 ▶
The Lost Art Of Conversation — 3 ▶
The Pop Singer's Fear Of The Pollen — 23 ▶
The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count — 32 ▶
The Pop Singer's Fear Of The Pollen Count (with ding) — 1 ▶
The Summerhouse — 1 ▶
The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale — 2 ▶
The Wreck of the Beautiful — 1 ▶
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out — 1 ▶
This Charmed Life — 1 ▶
Threesome (Instrumental) - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Thrill Seeker - BBC Session 1998 — 1 ▶
Time To Pretend — 11 ▶
Time To Pretend (Saturday Sessions) — 1 ▶
Timewatch — 1 ▶
To Die A Virgin — 40 ▶
To Die A Virgin (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
To the Rescue — 72 ▶
Tonight We Fly — 37 ▶
Tonight We Fly - Summer Sundae 2007 — 1 ▶
Victoria Falls — 1 ▶
When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe — 1 ▶
You'll Never Work in This Town Again — 5 ▶