WHEN: new album/and return to Ireland?

[eskimo_friendly]

Anyone got the latest rumours/info on any plans for Damien's next album??





And when the hell is he going to return to do some gigs in Ireland??





And are the covers of the early-2002 releases of "O" made of rice??

[Angela]

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And are the covers of the early-2002 releases of "O" made of rice??
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[eskimo_friendly]

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LOL not "again" ??


What???


Anyway, I don't see the problem with that question. I've put it to members of www.damienrice.com ("") and they all seemed baffled that I'd even ask it





HELLO!! You can buy things made out of rice, like clothing





And although the versions of 'O' that are currently on release are made of some soft fabric or something, the ones that were on sale for most of last year are made out of some weird substance that I can't put my finger on.


Yeh yeh, it might be just paper. But how f**king boring!


I'm just asking, for f**k sake. It would obviously make sense, and is a possibility.


(No smart, abusive, stupid little comments from little weaselsplease. Dont bloody waste yourlife withthings like that. Ask interesting, plausible questions instead. )

[Wheels]

I'm with eskimo_friendlly. We owe it to Damien fans everywhere to find out the shocking truth and tell the world. Personally I think with Damien making the album as if it would be his only one ever it is entirely plausible that he would use a 'rice' material to cover it... I mean wouldn't you? Just for the laugh?


EmmettU2 it's over to you...

[daol20]

I dont see a problem with that! That seems plausible! Actually, never thought of it like that, but hope your right "eskimo_friendly"!

[Loveless]

&gt;&gt;And when the hell is he going to return to do some gigs in Ireland??



I saw damien playing in Kildare two weeks ago.

[Wheels]

I heard not till the end of the year. Lets hope he plays the Opera House at Christmas again it was a great show this year.

[Sionna]

Yeah I heard he wont be back in Ireland until December/January.So far away.......<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley6.gif">

[Angela]

eskimo_friendly,


already told you "over there" that it's linen! <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">I think Damo even mentioed it himself in a recent US interview when he was asked about the packaging for the US release.


But maybe the Irish one was rice-linen? <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">

[eskimo_friendly]

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eskimo_friendly,


already told you "over there" that it's linen! <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">I think Damo even mentioed it himself in a recent US interview when he was asked about the packaging for the US release.


But maybe the Irish one was rice-linen? <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley2.gif">
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LOL i knew it was you Angela! I don't know how, i just got the feeling.


Well as you know I got no answers over "there", only laughing, when i asked, so i'm trying here. It's a serious question! I think the reaction here has been much better though - more-interesting people here!


Yes, I would definitely think that the American one WUD be linen, but the covers of the early Irish releases of the album are made with some strange fabric, which COULD be plane paper or something, but it could be rice, so I'm just asking!


;)

[Angela]

I know you were serious! <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">I bought mine from Damien directly. He brought the Irish release with him.


Anyway, here is the interview I was thinking of. I'm sure it's somewhere on this site, but it fits so well in the discussion:


Sounding Out
A fancy package for an extraordinary debut
By Tom Moon
Inquirer Popular Music Critic


When it was released in Ireland and England last summer, Damien Rice's extraordinary debut, O, had a clothbound cover, like a book, and page after page of beautiful artwork that led to the CD tucked elegantly in back.


"It came out of one of those nights where you just sit and ask yourself everything," Rice recalled of the attention-getting package. The scruffy Irish singer-songwriter was seated in a Philadelphia diner the morning after his Tin Angel debut, an event that - given how quickly Rice is rising - 600 people will one day claim to have attended.


"Sometimes important things come out of those 'What are you doing with your life?' conversations," said Rice, 28, recipient of the inaugural XPN Emerging Artist Award. "For me, the question was more 'What do you bring to this world?'


"To that I had to answer, 'I manufacture plastic, and I'm hoping to manufacture loads of it.' Which got me thinking about how deadly that is. And I started thinking how writers, they can say, 'I make books.' Somehow that feels cleaner, like a more beautiful thing to do."


So Rice - who will perform July 20 at the WXPN-FM (88.5) Singer-Songwriter Weekend on Penn's Landing - fashioned his "book," painting some of the artwork himself and soliciting contributions from friends.


After a slow start, audiences at the open-mike nights Rice frequented began to seek out the indie-label CD. And news spread about the tunesmith who had recorded most of his record in living rooms using low-budget gear.


Record labels in the States became interested, and eventually engaged in a bidding war. But when it came time to manufacture the thing, Rice's U.S. label - the newly formed Vector Recordings - blanched at the cost of the nontraditional packaging and argued for a more modest approach. And Rice, being an artist, refused to back down.


"Not to go all tree-hugging about it, but what we put out is what we get back. To me, it's more important that people encounter this thing I think is just beautiful than it is for us to all make 25 percent extra profit... . To me, the issue is about how people will first encounter what I'm doing. I had to say, 'This is its own thing. It goes together, don't try to change it.' "


After weeks of back and forth, Rice and Vector compromised: The first 30,000 copies of O, which was released Tuesday, will be clothbound, and subsequent pressings will be the traditional cardboard "eco-pak." Later, a deluxe cloth "limited-edition" collector's item, bundled with a live DVD, will also be sold for a few dollars extra.


From his early days in several successful Irish rock bands, most famously Juniper, Rice has fought for what he believes.


"The test these days is, can you do anything on your own terms as a recording artist? I think you can, if you're willing to go down.


"You learn pretty quickly that the people at the labels crave more security in life, and so they don't make artistic decisions well. I'm not afraid of failing, in industry terms, because I've already been right at the bottom and I have to say I loved it. To me, being successful is doing it on your own terms."


That iconoclastic spirit rattles through O, which incorporates bits of '60s folk narrative (the image-rich yarn "The Blower's Daughter"), as well as sprawling attempts at art-rock ("Eskimo," a meditation on writer's block), rash love odes, and rambling confessionals ("Volcano").


Like David Gray and others, Rice sometimes lets his thoughts rush out in a torrent of conflicting images, but is equally capable of a blunt summation that leaves no room for doubt. One of the best illustrations of Rice's gift comes on the bitter "Cheers Darling," a song Rice wrote at 3 a.m., after an argument with an unfaithful lover. At the Tin Angel, he performed it as a theatrical piece, stopping between toasts to provide details on the relationship.


"That really did come about at 3 a.m.," Rice says. "I put down this loop of rhythm I made out of clinking glasses and percussion noises. Then after I listened back, I just recorded whatever words fell out of my mouth. That showed me how interesting stuff comes from not thinking, not trying to be clever. Really, not trying at all."


It's a lesson he's learned several times in the last few years when he tried to force himself to write, when he went to the most plush studio in Dublin to record only to discover that the "too polished" tracks had none of the soul of his homemade demos.


"If I'm not bursting with whatever, there's no point trying... . I write because I have to do it, and when it's happening it's like a meditative state. It's all about letting out what's gone in," Rice says. "It's like vomiting, in a sense... . You always feel better afterward."

[Sionna]

Eskimo friendly,if you really want to know if the "rice" covered album actually exists u should e-mail info@damienrice.com ("") they might know more about it <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">

[Gatsby]

cheers for that angie some of that ive never read before<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif">

[bumblebee]

Yes, Cheers for thatpost, Angie...


Or as an American, I'll say" You ROCK!" <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif">

[Angela]

Actually, Emmett has it up on this site:


http://www.freecfm.com/d/damien/interviews.asp?philly=yes ("")


Should have looked there first, duh!


Hi Bumblebee, where in the US are you (you might have said it somewhere, but I forgot). I'm in Boston <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif">