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Music | News
10 Nov 2009
Damien Dempsey adds new date to his Dublin tour
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The Irish singer will perform an all ages show live at Whelan's on December 20.
Music | News
27 Oct 2009
Dempsey for Stables
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has been confirmed to play a rare solo show at the Bog Lane Theatre in Ballymahon, Co. Longford on Saturday November 28.
Music Review | Live
15 Oct 2009
Damien Dempsey
Mick McCaughan
“I’m an island virgin”
Music | News
7 Sep 2009
Damien Dempsey joins post-Picnic gig charge
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Music | News
23 Apr 2009
Damien Dempsey headlines Slane
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Catch him down the road from Lord Henry's gaff in Ryan's of The Gormalough.
Music | News
3 Dec 2008
Damien Dempsey announces New Year's gig
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Dempsey has just announced that he will be stopping off in Dublin to start 2009 properly with a gig at Vicar St.
Music | News
7 Nov 2008
Dempsey scores his second No.1
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has raced to the top of the Irish Music DVDs charts this week, with his Party On – Live At Vicar Street offering.
Music | News
28 Oct 2008
Damien Dempsey confirms show at Button Factory
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has announced that he will be stopping off at the Button Factory in Dublin to put on an all-ages show in December.
Music | News
23 Sep 2008
Beamish Cork Folk Festival line-up revealed
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Acts appearing at next month's Beamish Cork Folk Festival include Damien Dempsey, Lisa Hannigan and more...
Music | News
16 Sep 2008
Damien Dempsey adds new Dublin show
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has announced a second consecutive night at Vicar Street on December 18.
Music | News
3 Sep 2008
Damien Dempsey for tour and pre-Christmas hometown gig
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey is to tour extensively in support of this year's The Rocky Road album, including a pre-Christmas Vicar St appearance.
Music | Interview
25 Jun 2008
Tradical Chic
Peter Murphy
Damien Dempsey's adoration for traditional Irish balladry has inspired the Bard of Donaghmede to record his most powerful album yet.
Music Review | Album
11 Jun 2008
The Rocky Road
Adrienne Murphy
Dublin singer does a first rate job of interpreting Irish Trad standards for a new generation
Music | News
28 May 2008
Damien Dempsey adds new Belfast date to tour
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has announced he will play the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on August 7.
Music | News
8 May 2008
Damien Dempsey previews album artwork
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey's new album is out next month, and we've got a sneak peak at the artwork...
Music | News
18 Apr 2008
Damien Dempsey plans new album, tour
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has confirmed details of his new album, The Rocky Road, with a massive Irish tour lined up for the coming months.
Music | News
6 Nov 2007
Damien Dempsey: To Hell Or Barbados 'Expanded Edition'
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey’s To Hell Or Barbados album is now even more of an essential purchase with the release of an ‘Expanded Edition’, which includes eight bonus cuts.
Music | News
30 Oct 2007
Damien Dempsey to duet with Aslan
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Aslan's Christy Dignam is set to appear in a Sky News documentary with Damien Dempsey this Christmas.
Broadcast | Video
21 Oct 2007
Damien Dempsey @ The Hot Press Chat Room - Electric Picnic 2007
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey live @ The Hot Press Chat Room - Electric Picnic 2007
Music | News
3 Sep 2007
Damien Dempsey announces tour dates
The Hot Press Newsdesk
It’s a big ask, but Damien Dempsey will try to be even more deadly than he was at 'Leccy Picnic as he embarks on a national tour.
Music | News
27 Aug 2007
Damien Dempsey to play acoustic set in Hot Press Chatroom
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has announced he will be playing an intimate acoustic gig in the Hot Press Chatroom at Electric Picnic
Music Review | Single
25 Jun 2007
Your Pretty Smile
Phil Udell
Blame it on the sunshine, but Damo seems to have been afflicted with the Irish summertime weakness for lightweight reggae. While there’s certainly always been that element to his music, and with considerable success, this is not one of his bigger statements.
Music | Interview
15 Jun 2007
Running On Dempsey
Adrienne Murphy
A spiritualist in a material world, Damien Dempsey is back with To Hell Or Barbados , his fourth and arguably his finest album.
Music Review | Album
31 May 2007
To Hell Or Barbados
Olaf Tyaransen
There’s nobody else quite like Damien Dempsey. His vocal style is very much an acquired taste. It takes a few listens before you start liking it, but after a while and you wonder where he’s been all your life.
Music | News
31 May 2007
Damien Dempsey announces support act
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey's announced a pal and former collaborator as the opener for his June tour.
Music | News
22 May 2007
Folk Centre: sweet toot.
Greg McAteer
Folk and trad news by Greg McAteer.
Music | News
30 Apr 2007
Damien Dempsey reveals new direction
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey has confirmed details of his fourth studio album, which finds him dabbling in electronica.
Music | News
17 Aug 2006
Folk column: Same old Damo
Greg McAteer
While fans mourn the Seamus Ennis Centre, there’s a great line-up at the Kilkenny Arts Centre, and Damien Dempsey returns to Ireland.
Music Review | Album
14 Jun 2006
Live At The Olympia
Mark Keane
He may well go on to produce better work, but Live At The Olympia captures a wonderful hour or so of music, during which Damien Dempsey is king of all he surveys.
Music | News
23 Mar 2006
Damien Dempsey lines up Irish tour
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Dublin's working class hero Damien Dempsey is set to play a series of gigs around Ireland.
Music | News
16 Dec 2005
Damien Dempsey revealed as special guest for Lir gig
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The cat's out of the bag now: the acoustic guitar-strumming Damien Dempsey will join the bill for the Lir benefit gig.
Music | News
2 Nov 2005
Damien Dempsey confirms two Dublin dates
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey finishes the year off on a high with two shows at the Olympia in Dublin.
Music Review | Single
4 Oct 2005
Hold Me
Lisa Coen
Damo wants to be held in the third single from his number one Shots album. I say do what the man says; he’s massive. Certainly worth a listen for evidence of Dempsey’s more pared-down songwriting skills which strike an appropriately romantic chord.
Broadcast | Video
20 Sep 2005
Video interview: Damien Dempsey
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey interviewed at Electric Picnic.
Music | News
27 May 2005
Damien Dempsey to play live in Dublin
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Dempsey has two upcoming gigs being filmed for BBC and RTE television
Music | News
5 May 2005
Kinnity Castle to host one-day music festival
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey, The Chieftains, The Saw Doctors, Sharon Shannon and Mundy are among the artists performing at Dancing With Lunasa
Music | Interview
18 Mar 2005
The Boy From Donaghmede Takes On The World
Tanya Sweeney
Damien Dempsey has battled his way centre stage, winning the support of luminaries as diverse as Morrissey, Robert Plant, Sinéad O'Connor, Larry Mullen and Brian Eno along the way. Now with the release of his third album Shots, he is poised to make a major breakthrough. Interview by Tanya Sweeney. Photos by Cathal Dawson.
9 Mar 2005
Seize the Day
The 100 Greatest Irish Albums
Music Review | Album
4 Mar 2005
Shots
Kim Porcelli
Your writer is just as fond of the throwaway, the frivolous and the ephemeral as the next person, but it takes someone as integral as Damien Dempsey – back, here, with his third studio album – to remind you how empty, or, alternatively, full of shit most music is. That’s not a negative statement, just a true one.
Music | News
26 Jan 2005
Damien Dempsey ready to fire Shots
The Hot Press Newsdesk
With his highly anticipated album set for March release, Damien Dempsey has announced a series of live dates around the country
Music | Interview
18 Nov 2004
John Reynolds on Seize The Day (20/100)
The 100 Greatest Irish Albums
"It was an album made when it could be made, when the players were around because there was no label, and no funding..."
18 Nov 2004
Sieze The Day
The 100 Greatest Irish Albums
Featuring contributions from Sinéad O’Connor and Brian Eno, Seize The Day entered the Irish charts at number 5 and has gone on to achieve platinum status.
Music | News
15 Oct 2004
Damien Dempsey announces Dublin date
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Shortly about to embark on tour with Morrissey, Damien Dempsey has announced a December homecoming date at Vicar St.
Music Review | Live
30 Aug 2004
Live review @ The Sheiling Hotel, Raheny, Dublin
Tara Brady
The crowd’s unbridled outpouring of devotion and fervour is like getting swept up at Nuremberg – it’s burn, baby, burn – and burn is the operative word.
Music | News
12 Jul 2004
Homecoming king of Dublin
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey makes a welcomed return to live duty next month when he plays three 'homecoming' gigs
Music | News
28 May 2004
Damo preps for to seize the UK
The Hot Press Newsdesk
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Music | News
28 May 2004
Demspey to seize the UK
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Damien Dempsey's Seize The Day opus has been welcomed with wide open arms by the British press...
Music | News
23 Jan 2004
Damien Dempsey documentary to air on RTE One
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Discover the world according to Damien Dempsey in the upcoming RTE documentary
Music | News
13 Oct 2003
Damien Dempsey makes his ma proud at Vicar St.
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Mrs Dempsey was on hand at Vicar St. to celebrate her son's golden sales
19 Sep 2003
Damien Dempsey @ Lisdoonvarna
20 Jun 2003
Seize The Day
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Music | Interview
18 Jun 2003
The Celtic warrior
Eamon Sweeney
From strange days coming second in a yoghurt-sponsored competition and playing awful gigs sandwiched between boy bands, Damien Dempsey, with a little help from Shane, Sinéad and Christy, has survived and thrived. Eamon Sweeney meets a rap balladeer with a hit album, a social conscience and more than a few stories to tell.
Music Review | Album
29 May 2003
Seize The Day
Eamon Sweeney
Read the review of Damien Dempsey's brilliant second album and listen to 'Negative Vibes' and 'Factories'
Music | News
25 Apr 2003
Positive vibes!
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Ace Dublin troubadour Damien Dempsey signs licensing deal with Sony UK
Music Review | Single
25 Apr 2003
Negative Vibes
Hannah Hamilton
Music | Interview
18 Apr 2003
Archive artist of the fortnight: Damien Dempsey
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Read three brilliant archived features on Dublin troubadour Damien Dempsey on the eve of the release of his second album Seize The Day
Music | News
13 Mar 2003
Daybreaker!
The Hot Press Newsdesk
Seize The Day, the new album by Damien Dempsey, finally due out next month. Read on for tour dates and news of the fate of that Massive Attack/Sinead O'Connor collaboration too
Music Review | Album
2 Mar 2000
They Don't Teach This Shit In School
John Walshe
Damien Dempsey is a soul singer in the truest sense of the word. OK so he's no Al Green, but the 23-year-old from Donaghmede is incapable of being anything other than honest and giving anything less than 100% every time he opens his mouth to sing.
Music | Interview
17 Feb 2000
Modern day troubadour
Adrienne Murphy
Adrienne Murphy speaks to Damien Dempsey about his debut album, politics, Bob Marley and having Christy Moore hanging on the telephone
