The Last Time I Saw the Old Man

The second track taken from our forthcoming album ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is the poignant and beautiful ‘The Last Time I Saw the Old Man’. It is available to download and stream now.

“It’s hard to talk about this song too much,” Neil Hannon says. “My kind and intelligent father had Alzheimer’s for the last decade of his life. A cruel and all too usual punishment these days. The lyrics are a simple and unadorned observation of his final year. No profound statements. No poetry. The music does all the emotional heavy lifting. I suppose sometimes you just have to meet painful events head on. In order to accept them and move on.”

‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is available to pre-order now ahead of release on the 19th September.
 

Photography by Kevin Westenberg.