The first incarnation of this site appeared sometime in 2001, shortly after I signed up at the DC bulletin board. After scouring the internet for chords to Divine Comedy songs, the only site which delivered was the great, but now absent, 'Indulgence'. So I decided to fill the niche. Other BB members also went about working out DC songs, though more specifically tabbing them for guitar, and this manifested itself as 'The Divine Comedy Guitar Archive', which later became the the all-encompassing 'Neil Hannon and The Divine Comedy'.

All downloadable content on this site is in the PDF Acrobat format. This ensures easy scalable viewing and high resolution print output.

The chord documents found on this site are written primarily with the chord-reading pianist in mind. I have aimed to capture what is going on musically as far as possible using chord symbols, and in some cases this can result in what seem to be overly complicated progressions. The scores on this site are all note-for-note transcriptions, mostly for piano, but also encompassing full scores and instrumental parts. Arrangements for solo piano may also appear in the future.

I hope to find time to add a lot more content to this site, especially with the new album release, but time will tell....

Hello there! My name is Richard Holland and I'm a 22 year old ex-music student from Hampton, Middlesex (southwest London). After completing my music degree at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002, I had planned to continue my studies as a musician/composer the year after. However this didn't happen for various reasons, and I now find myself working in the exciting world of IT support. I am a relatively new DC fan, discovering them in their Fin de Siecle era, after 'National Express' caught my brother's attention on TOTP and the said album was bought as a result. From this point, the albums were bought in reverse (in quick succession) and need I say, the rest is history blah blah etc.

A Brief History of a Chordmeister

Transcribing music, for me, began simply as a desire to play along to songs on the piano, and jotting down chords enabled me to do this. As well as a general interest in harmony and theory, I had a good working knowledge of chords from a fairly early age, having played jazz piano in some form or other throughout school and college. It was at at A-level music I really got the hang of transcribing music note-for-note.