Here's 'something for the weekend' - the Divine Comedy play Belfast's Waterfront this Sunday and Monday, after a gig on Friday in Enniskillen's Ardhowen theatre.

The new tour follows the release of the act's tenth studio album, Bang Goes The Knighthood.

But while frontman Neil Hannon's collaborators come and go (the band has seen a regular revolving line-up of musicians and band mates) for this tour, he'll be playing solo.

Recorded in Dublin and London last year and written and produced by Neil, Bang Goes The Knighthood has won rave reviews for our favourite Fermanagh bard, a.k.a. the 'Noël Coward of Britpop', 20 years after the debut Divine Comedy album, Fanfare for the Comic Muse was released.

The Northern Irish bishop's son and Duckworth Lewis Method main man (to give credit to his other musical outlet) has come back with a selection of songs that are already getting heavily rotated on national radio.

Even his approaching 40th birthday, in November, hasn't led to the king of whimsy feeling any angst, in fact, he finally feels like his age has caught up with his personality.

"I was born old," he says, "I was an old man trapped in a young man's body. Now I'm an old man trapped in a middle-aged man's body."

Our very own son of a preacher man's witty way with words and his ear for a catchy melody mean that the Waterfront gigs will be well worth catching. Don't worry Neil, we'd give you a knighthood!

Tickets, £20, 8pm, www.waterfront.co.uk.