Archive for 'Damien News'
Damien to Perform in France in July
Posted on 10. Mar, 2012 by admin.
Damien will be performing at the Days Off festival in France on July 5th. Tickets go on sale from Wednesday 21st of March.
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Damien donates $500,000 at Haiti Benefit Night
Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by admin.
The New York Times reports that Damien bought a guitar owned by Bono for nearly half a million dollars at a Haiti benefit auction in Hollywood at the weekend. Hosted by Cinema for Peace, the event raised more than $5 million to help Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake of 2 years ago. In addition to providing the largest contribution on the night, Damien also performed for the audience, which included celebrities such as George Clooney; Sean Penn; Leonardo DiCaprio; Julia Roberts; Orlando Bloom; Mel Gibson; James Gandolfini; Garry Shandling; Salma Hayek; Hilary Swank; Josh Brolin and Diane Lane. According to media reports, Damien recently earned about half a million dollars from the release of "Cannonball" by the winners of X Factor in the UK.
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Damien Performs in South Korea
Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by admin.
Last week, Damien performed his first full gig for quite some time in Seoul, South Korea. Here's a review from the Korea Times. Read some fan reviews in the forum. And here's a video highlight from the night:
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X Factor Winner Releases Cannonball
Posted on 11. Dec, 2011 by admin.
The winner of tonight's X Factor final, Little Mix, have just released their debut single - a cover of Damien's "Cannonball". Both Little Mix and the other finalist, Marcus Collins, performed the track on the show tonight - resulting in "Damien Rice" trending worldwide on Twitter. The original version of the song is available to buy here.
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Audience Recording of Damien at Other Voices
Posted on 17. Nov, 2011 by admin.
Thanks to Oresti for sending us this video of Damien's recent performance of "The Professor" at the Other Voices event in New York:
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Damien Performs at Other Voices NYC
Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by admin.
Damien was a surprise special guest last Thursday night at Other Voices, a blend of Irish musical and literary performances in the city’s historic Poisson Rouge club in Greenwich Village. Brooklyn Vegan reports that Damien performed a couple of songs, including The Professor. The series of performances were recorded by RTE and NPR and will be broadcast later this year. For a full review and several photos, go here. Here is an audience-recorded video of Damien performing The Professor:
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Cannonball in UK Top Ten Charts
Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by admin.
10 years after Damien released his first single in Ireland, he has achieved his first top ten position in the UK singles chart. "Cannonball" has re-entered the charts at number 9, following a performance on X Factor by John Adams. View the singles chart here. View John Adams' performance of "Cannonball" here.
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Damien on Achtung Baby Covers Album
Posted on 09. Sep, 2011 by admin.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Bono disclosed that Damien is one of a number of great artists to be included on an Achtung Baby covers album commissioned by Q magazine. Damien has recorded U2's "One" for the album, which will be made available to mark the 20th anniversary of Achtung Baby's release. Other artists on the album include Depeche Mode, Patti Smith and Jack White.
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Ed Sheeran talks about being inspired by Damien
Posted on 08. Aug, 2011 by admin.
In an extract from this article in the Daily Telegraph, pop music's latest sensation Ed Sheeran talks about taking inspiration from Damien Rice. He was taken to see Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice play an intimate fan club gig at the age of 11, then bumped into the singer and his band in a bar after the show. “I had a little bit of a chat and kind of had an epiphany, like ’Wow, this is exactly what I want to do!’ I got home that night and wrote a whole bunch of songs. I remember one was called ’Typical Average Teen’. Yeah, I was one of those.” You have probably heard this a million times already, but here is "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran.
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Eight Artists Overdue for a New Album
Posted on 10. Jul, 2011 by admin.
Damien is featured as the number one artist overdue for a new album in a new article in Paste Magazine. Here's the relevant section: 1. Damien Rice It’s difficult to uncover the mystery of an artist when they don’t want to be found. Damien Rice has made it clear; he doesn’t like the lime light. After he released 9 in 2006 he slipped into the sonic abyss, which would make sense if he issued a terrible sophomore effort and slowly faded away. But both O and 9 were intimate, fantastic records. It’s hard to go a few months without hearing a D Rice song on a TV series or film, forcing yourself to stop and ponder ‘whatever happened to that meek Irishman?’ As it turns out, Rice has been lending his time to various charities and side projects. In April, he collaborated with French actress Melanie Laurent on five songs for her debut record, en t’attendant. In February, he released “Look At Me,” for an Argentinian children’s record. In 2010, he contributed to Gasoline Rainbows, a collaborative effort that benefited those affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill, and he donated a new version of “Lonely Soldier” for the Raise Hope for Congo album. But just as he wants it, we are still left to wonder if or when there will be another Damien Rice solo venture.
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