Archive for 'Interviews'
Interview: MSN.com
Posted on 20. May, 2007 by admin.
Interviews Damien Rice: Singing Green It’s not easy being green when you’re touring the country on planes and in buses, but Damien Rice is facing the challenge head-on. By Kate Sheppard Folk-rocker Damien Rice might sing sad tunes about lost love, but his wistful heart is in the right place when it comes to climate change. The environment [...]
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Interview: The Independent
Posted on 19. Jun, 2005 by admin.
Interviews Damien Rice: The world’s most reluctant pop star. The Independent, 19 June 2005 How the world’s most reluctant pop star wrote a best-selling album, ran away from fame, met a Hollywood actress and then came back to fight another day. What drives Damien Rice, asks Nick Duerden. And is conquering his demons enough to keep him on [...]
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Interview: Hot Press
Posted on 02. Jun, 2005 by admin.
Closer To The Truth. Hot Press Magazine Cover Story, Ireland, 2 June 2005 Damien Rice has emerged as one of the most distinctive and independent voices of recent years, achieving a remarkable level of success and artistic respect with 0 – the debut alburn that was recorded on a shoestring in his own bedroom. Famously media shy, [...]
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Interview: The Australian
Posted on 24. Sep, 2004 by admin.
The trouble with troubadours Jane Cornwell – 24 september 04 A LOT of people are excited about Damien Rice. His friends and family. His record company. The whole of Ireland. Most of the US. Much of Britain and Europe. A tousle-haired Dubliner with a catch in his throat and a way with a lyric and a melody that [...]
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Interview: Paste Magazine
Posted on 20. Aug, 2004 by admin.
The Accidental Rock Star Paste Magazine, Writer: Wes Orshoski, Issue 11 It’s about 3 a.m., and a motionless Damien Rice is lying on the floor of a small Seventh Avenue hotel suite. His arms resting on his chest and his eyes half-open, the singer is pinned to the floor by utter exhaustion. About four hours ago, Rice [...]
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Interview: BBC Radio
Posted on 08. Jul, 2004 by admin.
Damien Rice vague about new album BBC Radio, 08 July 2004 Jude Law and Julia Roberts have asked Damien Rice to write the soundtrack to their film ‘Closer’. They want some new songs, and to use some tracks from his album ‘O’. He’s written for a film before – a movie set during the troubles in Northern Ireland. He [...]
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Interview: Hot Press
Posted on 02. Jun, 2004 by admin.
Interviews Hot Press – The Anti-War Issue – June 2004 For me, doing the show is more about supporting an energy where people are coming together and saying ‘We live in this country, it’s supposed to be a democratic country and there’s so many people here who do not agree with what the Bush administration is doing’. I [...]
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Interview: The Times
Posted on 04. May, 2004 by admin.
The day I get happy, I’ll probably stop By Andrew Billen, The Times, May 04, 2004 Like a romantic poet, Damien Rice has built a career on frustration and unrequited love DAMIEN RICE may be the latest big thing in rock music but, I have decided — given the untimely deaths of Chatterton, Keats and Shelley — the [...]
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Interview: The Irish Times
Posted on 15. Jan, 2004 by admin.
Interviews Keeping His Karma There’s one thing you can’t be about Damien Rice – and that’s neutral. The stealth musical star of the year tells Jim Carroll how he kept his karma as his star rose across the US firmament and how his hippie vision may one day become a reality – in a field near you. The [...]
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Interview: Guitar World
Posted on 20. Nov, 2003 by admin.
From Van Morrison to Bono to David Gray, Ireland has never lacked for emotion-charged singer-songwriters. The latest to hit these shores is Damien Rice, on the heels of his soaring acoustic solo debut, “O” (Vector Recordings). While Rice is reluctant to point to the specific influence of other musicians on his work – “The main [...]
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