The Divine Comedy - October 1st EP

00:00 - Nobody Wins 03:10 - Passion Fruit 06:57 - Silent Man 10:22 - October This is "October 1st", a very early (1987) extended play by Neil Hannon's band October. (As you might imagine, he was rather a big U2 fan at the time.) The band would go on to achieve much greater success after changing their name to The Divine Comedy. You'll hardly ever hear Neil talking about it, but he seems to like the title track at least, since he saw fit to reuse its melody for Assume the Perpendicular in 2010. October made only one other release, their 1989 studio album "Exposition", but it remains incredibly elusive to this day -- do share it if you have a copy!