Archive for September, 2014
NYC and Montreal Dates Added
Posted on 30. Sep, 2014 by admin.
Damien has added 2 new dates to his upcoming tour: at the Apollo Theatre, New York, on 15 November and at Métropois in Montreal. Pre-sales start on 3 October from 12PM EDT.
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I Don’t Want to Change You – Now Streaming!
Posted on 23. Sep, 2014 by admin.
“I Don’t Want to Change You”, the first single from My Favourite Faded Fantasy, is now available to stream here.
It was broadcast tonight for the first time on BBC Radio 1.
What do you think? Let’s chat about it in the Igloo!
And here’s a teaser from the video:
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Damien on the BBC
Posted on 22. Sep, 2014 by admin.
Damien will be performing songs from My Favourite Faded Fantasy on BBC’s Later with Jools Holland on 30 September.
Also, listen in to the Zane Low Show on BBC Radio 1 this wednesday evening (24 September), as it’s possible he will be debuting “I Don’t Want to Change You”, the first single from the new album.
(Thanks to Eva and Borneoman for the detective work!)
Here’s a recording of Damien’s first performance on Later with Jools Holland back in 2002…
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Tour Dates Announced
Posted on 15. Sep, 2014 by admin.
Damien today announced the following tour dates. Why not join the discussion in the Igloo?
Oct 7 – Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, CA
Oct 9 – The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CA
Oct 13 – Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago, IL,
Oct 14 – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
Oct 16 – The Box, New York, NY
Oct 17 – Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
Oct 18 – The Box New York, NY
Oct 23 – Gran Teatro Linear4Ciak, Milan, Italy
Oct 26 – Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Oct 27 – Carre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 31 – Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany
Nov 3 – Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Nov 5 – Folies Bergeres, Paris, France
Nov 7 – Palladium, London, United Kingdom
Nov 15 – Apollo Theater, NYC NEW!
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Damien Quotes in London Evening Standard Article
Posted on 13. Sep, 2014 by admin.
The London Evening Standard has published some quotes from Damien in this article about the new album.
“I was playing the biggest venues I’d ever played, and everything was quote-unquote perfect. And everything sort of crumbled and fell apart at that moment,” he says. “I became really unhappy, and so that went spiralling down, down, down, where I got to this place where I had everything I thought I wanted and I still wasn’t happy. That felt very, I guess, disheartening. So I kind of crashed.”
“The reason why it took me so long to record this record was because I kept on starting it and quitting it and starting it and quitting it, so I got nowhere. Everything I’d do I would criticise,” he says.
“I met with my management in London and they said to me, ‘Do you ever want to make another record?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I think I need help, someone who can inspire me to be better’. I said the only person who came to mind was Rick Rubin. But I knew very little about him. All I knew is that he meditated, he had a big beard and that some people called him a guru.”
“I sat for a minute and I imagined myself with one more hour on the planet. And I noticed that I didn’t care about whether I had sold more records, or less records,” he says. “What was most important to me in that moment was wanting to shed whatever mask I’d been wearing so that I could at least be myself in the world, instead of some version of myself that I thought was appropriate.”
It also includes some quotes from Rick Rubin, who produced the album:
“I think he was torn. Part of him wanted to be free to express himself and part of him seemed to be stopping the process,” Rubin says of Rice’s working methods. The producer, who has worked on endless classic albums from the Eighties hip hop of Run DMC to Johnny Cash’s American series and Adele’s album 21, is known for his hands-off approach. “It took a series of personal breakthroughs for Damien to feel comfortable enough to want to put out new music and all the stress associated with it. He is a highly sensitive artist and man.”
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First Single to be “I Don’t Want to Change You”
Posted on 08. Sep, 2014 by admin.
While “My Favourite Faded Fantasy” was aired tonight by Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, it looks like Damien’s first single will be “I Don’t Want to Change You”, which Zane Lowe will also debut on 23 September.
Speaking about the 8-year gap between album releases, Damien says in a press release, “Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.”
There’s also confirmation tonight that the new album is produced by Rick Rubin.
“I came to Rick mostly based on what I didn’t know about him, rather than what I did,” adding “for some reason I just had a feeling that I would feel comfortable being open and being me and being vulnerable with Rick.”
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My Favourite Faded Fantasy – Available from Tonight
Posted on 08. Sep, 2014 by admin.
Zane Lowe just played the title track from Damien’s new album, “My Favourite Faded Fantasy”, for the first time on BBC Radio 1, saying:
“So astounding, so stunning, we had to start the week with it…”
Note: this track is available on iTunes from midnight (EST) tonight when you pre-order the album from iTunes.
Today, it was also officially confirmed that the new album will go on sale from 31 October.
Listen back to the Zane Lowe show tonight from here.
And here’s a video excerpt:
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New Album Confirmed!
Posted on 04. Sep, 2014 by admin.
Good news! Damien’s new album, “My Favourite Faded Fantasy”, will go on sale on 31 October.
The tracklist reported by Amazon is:
1. My Favourite Faded Fantasy
2. It Takes A Lot To Know A Man
3. The Greatest Bastard
4. I Don’t Want To Change You
5. Colour Me In
6. The Box
7. Trusty And True
8. Long Long Way
Note that the image posted by DamienRice.com includes the following other track titles:
Camarillas
Mustard Seeds
Update: This tweet from George Ergatoudis (Head of Music at BBC Radio 1) may suggest that the first single will be “The Greatest Bastard”.
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