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Interview: Irish Times (31 Oct 2014)

Posted on 31. Oct, 2014 by admin.

Damien Rice: Fading back into view

On the eve of the release of My Favourite Faded Fantasy, Reykjavik resident Rice talks to us

“You’re doing something, you’re doing something, boom, you crash, burn, you fail. You beat yourself up, and then you find your way out of it.”

Damien Rice is talking about how everything just . . . stopped. He’s sitting in a room high up in a building called Idno in Reykjavik, an old restaurant-theatre- venue that looks out on to the water. When Rice talks about the “big crash and burn” that began an eight-year hiatus from releasing records, he speaks about the disintegration of relationships in his band. They had started from a place of innocence, he says, then touring was exciting, then everything got bigger, then money came in, then the whole thing fell apart.

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