Two new songs recorded yesterday

[Tom]

Adelaide is where I live! :P Capital of South Australia!

Yeah recordings arent great but its only off a phone. I love the song which i didnt video, a lovely tune. I think it's "and we've never been in this place before".

[SimonWales]

Certainly the first one could well be a new song - I couldn't place it.

The 2nd song is a traditional Irish song, which has been recorded by Nina Simone, The Corrs, Luka Bloom, Paul Weller amongst others. "Black Is The Colour"

Black is the colour of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some rose so fair
She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
I love the ground whereon she stands

I love my love, and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes
I wish the day it soon might come
When she and I might be as one

Black is the colour of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some rose so fair
She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
I love the ground whereon she stands

I'll go to the Clyde and I mourn and weep
Where satisfied I never shall be
I write her a letter, just a few short lines
And suffer death ten thousand times

Black is the colour of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some rose so fair
She has the sweetest smile and the gentlest hands
I love the ground whereon she stands

[cestoz]

the first one sounds really promising!

from the videos it seems the stage is ridiculously high up, was this the case or did you hold your phone more subtlely next to your chest, rather than holding it up in the air in typical fashion?

[Wheels]

Originally Posted by SimonWales

The 2nd song is a traditional Irish song, which has been recorded by Nina Simone, The Corrs, Luka Bloom, Paul Weller amongst others. "Black Is The Colour"

Simon, that shows as the first song for me the one ending 1979097746, the one with the video footage.

[Tom]

Yup Wheels that sounds right to me.

My brother actually took the video. It was from his phone. He was on the front row, and knowing Damien's distain for people holding cameras in his face he sat it on his lap instead

[dmbarbie69]

i still cant get it to work with the myspace video all it says is error with a crying smile sad face.....ahhh


ok im not freakin out that much but i do wanna hear it so if anyone else has ideas let me hear em

[Dean C]

Wow these new songs sound f***ing amazing! Damo back to his best ;D!

[Calum]

Adelaide is a place in Australia, not the name of the song

[Gatsby]

Originally Posted by SimonWales

The 2nd song is a traditional Irish song, which has been recorded by Nina Simone, The Corrs, Luka Bloom, Paul Weller amongst others. "Black Is The Colour"

i would have thought Christy Moore would be the most famous to cover that song. I always regarded it as his song.

damiens new song sounds promising. Its one of the best new songs ive heard him write in a good while

[SimonWales]

Originally Posted by Wheels

Simon, that shows as the first song for me the one ending 1979097746, the one with the video footage.

Bit of confusion there - it is the first song as linked in Tom's posting, but it is titled "Damien Rice's 2nd Song" on Myspace....

[LaurenM]

Originally Posted by Calum

Adelaide is a place in Australia, not the name of the song

[Nine]

oh my goodness, thanks so much Tom - that new one is absolutely wonderful. I hope to God he plays it at some of the gigs this year.

I wonder what it's called

[Spamlet]

Yes, I was soooo hoping the longer file was going to be the new song!

Yet another classic and quite lovely lyrics from what I can hear (which is actually almost all of it-just give me a few days to make sure on the rest).

Oh and we've never been in this place before
No, not as it is right now, right now.
And we may never know what this night is for
So for now we'll just sit around.

Believe it or not, my mucho plugged amazingly talented singer/songwriter pal Summer has her own song called "What The Night Was For". She's a masive DR fan so I can't wait to tell her this...

[Mr Benn.]

Can anyone tell from this if it's new or if it's juniper stuff? I can't really hear what he's saying.

[Closing_Doors]

Pretty sure it's not a Juniper song, at least not one I've heard.

Originally Posted by LaurenBledsoe

i couldnt understand what he was saying and is adelaide or whatever the name of the song?

And people say Americans suck at geography

[LaurenM]

Originally Posted by Closing_Doors

Pretty sure it's not a Juniper song, at least not one I've heard.



And people say Americans suck at geography

Clearly you have yet to look into AAG which is the Association of American Geographers, I mean if you want to get technical about it, then you shouldn't forget Neil Smith who happened to be one of the most accomplished American Geographers of the 20th century, whom which he dedicated his entire being and moment of existence on earth to learn every bump, decline and rock and wave of water on this planet. Also being well recognized for writing the most brilliant, vivid and illuminating book called American Empire. I guess you can google it if you feel so compelled to do so. But hey It's all opinion right? I guess yours just isnt based off anything but intuition, which is fine too.

[SisterMidnight]

Originally Posted by Tom

What a nightmare that was, sorry bout the wait folks.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1979097746

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1979116609

Enjoy!

thank you tom tell your brother thanks too!

i love this song, i really like the line about the army of stars.. i wonder if he has any more surprises like this one up his sleeve..

[Nine]

i hope so

[Rue Saint-Denis]

Thanks Tom!

[Bristlecone]

The actual new song sounds like it's using a wah in there. I like.

[Tom]

yeah sorry bout the mix up on the names, re. song 1 and 2.

I must have uploaded these damn videos about 10 times! So by the end I wasnt paying much attention to the order!

Do I win a prize? :P

[borneoman]

But wait, these two new songs are from the 2nd Australian show... but on the 1st night he did another new one, didn't he? The one about a girl with black hair that someone mentioned... looks like it's not any of these two...

[borneoman]

Oops, now I see, the song about the girl with black hair is the traditional Irish song... sorri...

[mickey13086]

thank you tom! Thank you for especially going through all the trouble and what not... and your brother, and being discreet about recording it. smart move if you are going to do it. in Toronto it was quite a weird feeling for some audience members to be scolded by damien.

but anyways... THANK YOU!!!

[Calum]

Originally Posted by LaurenBledsoe

Clearly you have yet to look into AAG which is the Association of American Geographers, I mean if you want to get technical about it, then you shouldn't forget Neil Smith who happened to be one of the most accomplished American Geographers of the 20th century, whom which he dedicated his entire being and moment of existence on earth to learn every bump, decline and rock and wave of water on this planet. Also being well recognized for writing the most brilliant, vivid and illuminating book called American Empire. I guess you can google it if you feel so compelled to do so. But hey It's all opinion right? I guess yours just isnt based off anything but intuition, which is fine too.

Their opinion was based on humour; i wouldn't worry about it. Some Americans tend to have bad geographical skills simply becase the USA is so bloody big! That does happen. But there again, as you said, there are thousands of expert geographers and such in America. But anyway, it was a joke. =P

By the way, am i the only one who isn't excited by these just yet? I think it's just the bad quality really. But still, well done for catching them.

[whatboutbob]

Well here's the same new song from Melbourne N1:

http://download.yousendit.com/4FBE527C6E588F56

tis only slightly better quality...unfortunately i managed to tear the soldering on one of my mic jacks just prior to the gig, so the right channel has sporadic static throughout. *shrug*

[Banjaxed]

Originally Posted by LaurenBledsoe

Clearly you have yet to look into AAG which is the Association of American Geographers, I mean if you want to get technical about it ... blah blah blah American Empire... blah blah blah ... But hey It's all opinion right? I guess yours just isnt based off anything but intuition, which is fine too.

And they say Americans have no sense of humour.

[Closing_Doors]

Originally Posted by Banjaxed

And they say Americans have no sense of humour.

Dammit that was gonna be my line

It would appear they've mastered the art of using google/looking things up on wikipedia and successfully passing it off as their own knowledge though. Oh wait...

And anyways, myself and Neil Smith go way way back. I really enjoyed his recent paper on the politics of public space. Nice bedtime reading for anyone who's interested!

"If The Flintstones has taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement." - Homer J Simpson

[Closing_Doors]

Originally Posted by whatboutbob

Well here's the same new song from Melbourne N1:

http://download.yousendit.com/4FBE527C6E588F56

tis only slightly better quality...unfortunately i managed to tear the soldering on one of my mic jacks just prior to the gig, so the right channel has sporadic static throughout. *shrug*

That's actually pretty decent quality man, thanks for the upload. He didn't mention a name? I hate having untitled MP3s... I'll just call it "What the Night Is For" for now, I guess.

[jimski123]

Its hard to really get the feel of either song without a decent recording.