Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy was interviewed on the Off Menu podcast with comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble and mentioned this anecdote.
It's funny. I already mentioned, Neil Tennant, you were going to ask me about drinks, maybe?
Oh yeah, at some point. Would you like me to do that now?
Would you?
Yeah, you got very excited about Neil Tennant.
I just remembered I want the finest wine known to be humanity.
And you got so excited about this when you remembered it was coming up.
Well, I just thought, I don't know much about wine, but I know the good stuff from the bad stuff when I'm given it. And the best wine I ever got given was by Neil Tennant. He took us out to dinner when I was going to do, I've been to a marvelous party for the Terrence Higgins Trust album that he did in the late nineties.
And he didn't need to take us out to dinner, but he did, and it was great. And he said, what sort of wine do you like? And I went, I don't know, I will get to this one.
And it was the greatest thing I've ever tasted in my life.
Oh, wow.
Money counts, I think, when it comes to wine, I really do. Yeah, yeah. You get some great wines for 20 quid or whatever, but if you go up to like, you know, I don't even want to say it's too awful.
Because I looked at the menu as to what he had pointed to later. I mean, it was...
Come on, tell us, tell us how much it was. Tell us how much Tennant was dropping.
I mean, I think it was about 800 quid or something like that.
Wow. Tennant.
I just didn't know it was possible to spend that much money on a drink.
Yeah.
But it was the greatest thing you've ever tasted.
It was the greatest thing I've ever tasted, yeah.
Later on, James admitted he’d mis-heard and thought Neil H was talking about David Tennant. No, nobody mentioned the origin of David Tennant’s stage name
