WATCH: Damien Rice takes Primavera by storm + other Barca festival highlights

Catalunya also got to see the very best of Ride!

Damien Rice regains top slot on Indie charts

My Favourite Faded Fantasy returns to the summit

WATCH: Damien Rice performs on Late Late Show

The Kildare man turned in a performance of 'Trusty & True' last Friday.

Damien Rice announces summer shows

The returning singer-songwriter will perform in Dublin, Cork and Galway next July.

A Troubled Enigma Returns - Hot Press meets Damien Rice

He was the hottest singer-songwriter on the planet and then, suddenly, he vanished from view. Back after an eight year hiatus, in a fascinating interview, Damien Rice discusses his long quest for inner peace, working with Rick Rubin and his attempt to patch things up creatively with Lisa Hannigan. Oh, and his sense of humour...

WATCH: Damien Rice performs 'Colour Me In'

Listening to it is like being wrapped in a warm duvet!

WATCH: Damien Rice performs on Letterman

Kildare chart-topper pops by Dave's New York studio

Damien Rice still heads Indie chart

Hot Press cover star remains at No. 1

Damien Rice wanted Lisa Hannigan collaboration

In our new cover feature, the Kildare-born singer-songwriter also discusses My Favourite Faded Fantasy, the catharsis of songwriting, and how he filled the past eight years.

Damien Rice to visit Letterman

Kildare troubadour will play The Late Show next week

WATCH: Damien Rice acoustic session + top 10 in the UK

Damien Rice performed a slew of songs from his new My Favourite Faded Fantasy album this morning on Santa Monica’s legendary KCRW radio station.

Indie charts topped by Damien Rice

My Favourite Faded Fantasy straight in at No. 1

FREE MUSIC FRIDAY

Starring Aphex Twin, Damien Rice, Culture Club, Banks, Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails, Ed Sheeran, Hookworms, Die Antwoord and some avant jazz/space rock. Why not, eh?

Damien Rice heads up album chart

Top spot for Kildare troubadour

Damien Rice to play Other Voices

The star is Kingdom-bound next month for the TV musicfest.

Damien Rice, the Bord Gais Energy Theatre

Damien Rice playing at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre on 3 November 2014.

Damien Rice Live: Photo Gallery

Damien Rice delighted a sold-out Bord Gáis Energy Theatre last night; check out our photos from the night, and a flavour of the reaction from the capacity crowd.

LISTEN: The new Damien Rice album

One of the most eagerly-awaited albums of 2014 has landed!

Damien Rice 'My Favourite Faded Fantasy' - Album Review

Impressive comeback from Irish folk star.

WATCH: New Damien Rice video

Damien Rice has premiered the video for ‘I Don’t Want To Change You’, the lead single from his My Favourite Faded Fantasy album which is released on October 31.

The Stables in Mullingar is set to close tonight

The Yukon Bar and its accompanying venue, opened in 1989, are no more after October 1.

Damien Rice's new album to get luxury treatment

Ornate box-set available in limited numbers

Watch: Damien Rice perform on Later...

'I Don't Want To Change You' taken from new album

Damien Rice to play Jools Holland

Kildare troubadour to hit the Later... stage

LISTEN: New Damien Rice single

'I Don't Want To Change You' follows the title track from his forthcoming My Favourite Faded Fantasy.

Damien Rice's Dublin show: SOLD OUT

The Kildare songwriter is clearly as popular as ever.

Damien Rice announces live comeback

One-off show set for London

LISTEN: New Damien Rice song

Team Hot Press has been chain listening to ‘My Favourite Faded Fantasy’, the title-track from the long overdue new Damien Rice album, which drops here on October 31.

Damien Rice: New Album With Rick Rubin Confirmed

The man who broke through with the astonishing debut album, O, is back with a new record...

New Damien Rice album?

The Kildare songwriter has tweeted a tracklist, while Amazon seems to think there is something to pre-order...

Welcome Back Damien Rice

"...Fans of Damien Rice have been waiting a whole seven years for the melancholic singer and emotional projectionist to grace an Irish stage. Well, the good news is that he’s back – with a vengeance. "

Photo Gallery: Damien Rice's date with Whelan's

Last night's show in the famous Dublin venue was an emotional one, and Hot Press was on hand to capture the action.

Damien Rice, Whelan’s

Damien Rice performing at Whelan’s, Monday 13th May, 2014

Full Set List From Damien Rice Gig

Here we enumerate what the singer-songwriter played to a packed and expectant Whelan's

Damien Rice Returns In Triumph

Whelan's in Dublin was the scene earlier tonight for an emotional gig by the enigmatic singer-songwriter – who promised that a new album is on the way, later this year

Damien Rice for Whelan's

The acclaimed singer-songwriter will be helping the famous venue celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Damien Rice Returns To Irish Charts With O

Adele is at No.1 but there's a surprise new entry.

Cri De Coeur

In 2000 he was a young musician with nothing to tie him down. The intervening decade was a remarkable one for Damien Rice, who scaled the heights with his wonderful debut album, released in 2002, and simply titled O. But far more important to him than all of that is the fact that he loved, and then lost, an extraordinary woman by the name of Lisa Hannigan.

Rice for California film screening [corrected!]

Damien Rice will perform live on Sunday, March 7 in California when the film When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun is shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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First Damien Rice Interview In Three Years In Hot Press

Damien Rice has broken a three year silence to speak to Hot Press, in an in depth interview that appears in the Hot Press Annual, which hit shops today.

Damien Rice plays special Iceland shows

They're being recorded for use on his new album.

Damien Rice to perform in Union Chapel

Get ready for the acoustic lilts of Damien Rice and other artists at the November showcase of the Little Noises Session in London.

New Damien Rice song on Songs For Tibet album

Damien Rice contributes a new track, ‘Making Noise’, to the Songs For Tibet – The Art Of Peace compilation, which receives its Stateside release on August 12.

Damien Rice calls for support for Burma campaign

Damien Rice is among the celebrities calling out for a million people to sign up in support for freedom in Burma.

Damien Rice releases new live record

You wait years for a Damien Rice live album and then two come along at the same time!

Damien Rice: Live album artwork revealed

This is the cover of Damien Rice's forthcoming album Live At Union Chapel.

Damien Rice calls for justice in Burma

Damien Rice has added his voice to calls for a UN intervention in Burma.

Damien Rice plus support at Marlay Park, Dublin

A picnic mood prevailed as the late summer rays caressed the crowds, many of them sprawled on blankets spread around the unfamiliarly dry grass.

Damien Rice and Fionn Regan announce Cork gigs

Fionn Regan and Damien Rice have both announced shows in Cork.

Damien Rice to release new single

Damien Rice is to release a download-only single to coinicide with his headliner at Marlay Park later this month.

Damien Rice announces warm-up show

Damien Rice warms up for his Marlay Park extravaganza with a Royal Theatre, Castlebar show on August 23.

Marlay Park stage times announced

Don't miss your fave bands - we have the timetables of the Foo Fighters, Damien Rice and Kaiser Chiefs concerts taking place at Marlay Park, Dublin.

Damien Rice cancels Fuji

Damien Rice has pulled his Japanese Fuji Rocks and Korean Pentaport Festival appearances this weekend due to fatigue.

Damien Rice announces American tour

It seems there’s no rest for the wickedly successful, as Damien Rice announces his US/Canadian tour for this September.

Glasto line up revealed!

The full Glastonbury line up has been unveiled - and there's no shortage of Irish talent playing the celebrated festival.

Damien Rice support acts announced

The full line-up for Damien Rice's outdoor show has been revealed.

Damien Rice + Snow Patrol confirmed for Live Earth

Damien Rice and Snow Patrol have both been confirmed for the London leg of Al Gore’s Live Earth extravaganza, which takes place in multiple locations on July 7.

Damien Rice headlines stage at Glastonbury

Damien Rice is to headline the acoustic stage at Glastonbury Festival.

Damien Rice announces summer outdoor show

The long wait is over with Damien Rice finally confirming an Irish gig in Dublin’s Marlay Park.

Rootless Tree

Yes, the one with all the swearing on it – with all the swearing removed. A snaggle-toothed bile-dripper ‘Rootless Tree’ was the slow-burn stand out on Rice’s 9 album; cleaned up for radio, the song retains its haunting reach. Points are deducted for the recycled card sleeve, though. There is such a thing as trying too hard, you know.

Damien Rice confirms new UK tour

Having sold-out four UK Dates in March, Damien Rice has confirmed a return trip to Blighty in October

Damien Rice kicks off Other Voices 5

RTE's series of live music Other Voices begins straight after Christmas with an hour-long Damien Rice special.

Damien Rice announces 2007 UK tour

The singer/songwriter will hop across the Irish Sea to play four concerts in March.

9 Crimes

Without wishing to trash the Hot Press party line, our Damien has always left me perplexed, uninterested and wondering what all the fuss could be about. Might '9 Crimes' be the record to change all that? Actually it might. This is lovely stuff, once again led by the twin muses of Lisa Hannigan’s voice and Vyvienne Long’s cello, although you have to wonder at the strategy of releasing it two weeks after the album.

9

While Mr Rice is a notoriously camera-shy chap, we shouldn’t mistake this reticence for a meekness of character. Far from it – because from beginning to end, 9 is a serious statement of authorial intent.

Damien Rice US tour and Irish show ticket exclusive

Having previously announced that he wasn’t going to tour his new 9 album, Damien Rice has announced a 10-date US tour, which kicks off on November 13 in LA’s El Rey Theater and then takes in New York, Oakland, Boston, Upper Darby, Washington and Chicago before winding-up on December 20 at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theater.

The 9th life of Damien Rice

It's been over four intriguing years since Damien Rice's extraordinary debut album O was launched. That record went on to become a huge underground international hit, selling in excess of 2 million copies. Now his long-awaited follow-up – the similarly simply titled 9 – is finally ready to hit the shops. So how did Rice so successfully capture the collective imagination? And will the latest instalment in the Rice musical biography propel him to even greater heights? Hot Press talks exclusively to some of the key players in his remarkable rise and rise.

Exclusive: Damien Rice's new album track-by-track

Hot Press has been given an exclusive first listen to the new Damien Rice album, which is released here by 14th Floor Records on November 3.

Damien Rice's follow up to 9 already in the pipeline

Damien Rice’s 9 album hasn’t even hit the racks yet, and he’s already actively piecing together the follow-up!

Damien Rice artwork revealed

As reported last month in Hot Lress, Damien Rice is getting his new album into the shops before Christmas.

Damien Rice: new album details [updated]

Damien Rice has confirmed details of his long-awaited follow-up to the two million-selling O.

Exclusive: Damien Rice confirms two Dublin shows

Damien Rice is to play two dates in Dublin ahead of his Electric Picnic performance.

Damien Rice heads Stateside

Damien Rice has confirmed the full list of US dates he's playing during the summer with Fiona Apple.

Damien Rice curates own night at Electric Picnic

In what is one of the most sensational developments of the summer festival season, Damien Rice has been added to the line-up for Electric Picnic. However, Hot Press can reveal that, in addition to performing, the Kildare troubadour has committed to an even more ambitious role in the event.

Damien Rice participates in Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

There was no getting hammered and doing fuck all work over Christmas for Damien Rice with the Kildare man journeying to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

Damien Rice to feature on new Help album

Having graced the Closer soundtrack and made the cut for the OC’s illustrious collection, Damien Rice is doing very nicely out of compilations these days.

Damien Rice to organise summer festival

Damien Rice is set to try his hand at staging a music festival in Ireland this summer

Closer To The Truth

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 O – the debut album that was recorded on a shoestring in his own bedroom. Famously media shy, he agreed to talk to Hot Press about the Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign, and the beautiful tribute single ‘Unplayed Piano’, recorded with Lisa Hannigan. But, tape rolling, he talked about a whole lot more, giving the most candid and complete insight yet into the real Damien Rice.

Burma - The Oppression Must End

Damien Rice takes on Prince in Australia

Damien Rice's cover version of 'When Doves Cry' appears on a new compilation from Australian radio station Triple J

Damien Rice announces Paris date

Damien Rice supports 'Free Aung San Suu Kyi' campaign [updated]

Exclusive to hotpress.com: the artwork for Damien Rice's new single revealed

Damien Rice's O reaches uncharted territory in UK

O has reached its peak in the UK albums chart, fuelled by the appeal of 'The Blower's Daughter' on the soundtrack to Closer

Oxfam Tsunami relief show in the TBMC, Dublin

Though a charity gig hardly makes for the perfect barometer, it is still perpetually astounding to note the evolution (or devolution?) of Damien Rice’s live audiences.

Damien Rice single re-released off Hollywood soundtrack

Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman are the new stars of Damien Rice's new 'Blower's Daughter'

'For The Lady' album banned in Burma

Myanmar's military junta has banned the album demanding the freedom of political dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

Damien Rice to feature on benefit album

Not content with joining superstar ranks in an upcoming benefit album, Damien Rice is to be the subject of a before-he-was-famous documentary

Damien Rice To Play Special Under-18s Show

Damien Rice has announced details of an under-18s show at Whelan's, Dublin on the afternoon of Saturday September 18.

B-Sides

The trouble with Damien Rice these days is there isn’t just enough of him to go around.

EXCLUSIVE: New Damien Rice artwork revealed!

Chasing a pink elephant? Damien Rice's B-Sides album is coming soon to a store near you and here's what to look for...

Damien Rice to play HMV in-store

Damien Rice launches his new 'Lonely Soldier' single next week with an in-store performance at HMV Grafton St.

Additional anti-war gig announced for Sunday

Organizers of the When Bush Comes To Shove gig have announced a second date at Vicar St., on June 20, to meet continued ticket demand

Rice + Moore record anti-war single

Damien Rice and Christy Moore have collaborated on a new single, 'Lonely Soldiers', which will benefit the Irish Anti-War Movement

Damien Rice to play solo Dublin gig

Roll up, roll up! Damien Rice plays his homecoming gig at Vicar St. on May 31

Bowling For Ireland

Patrick Hedlund catches up with Damien Rice and The Frames in Boston and finds they’re having more success on-stage than in the bowling alley. Additional reporting Stuart Clark

Prime time for Damien Rice in the US

American readers that missed out on tickets for his sold-out tour with The Frames can catch Damien Rice up close and personal with David Letterman tonight

Rice bound for the BRITS on the eve of O re-release

From Iceland and Tennessee to the BRIT awards, Damien Rice is hot international property

The Rice is right

The fact that he has a bizarre Swedish dance outfit as support is largely a testament to the clout of Damien Rice’s newfound celebrity.

Rice tickets available from independent outlets

Tickets are selling fast for the Bam earthquake benefit gig which takes place January 28

Damien Rice to perform at Vicar St. benefit gig

Mr Rice has been added to the bill for the Victims Of Bam Earthquake benefit, which takes place January 28

Damien Rice announces February gigs and tour guests.

Following the re- release of his much- acclaimed album, 'O', Rice will be touring with some special guests in the new year.

Damien Rice wins Shortlist Music Prize

Congratulations to Damien Rice who picked up the prestigous US prize last night

Damien Rice to play pre-Christmas Vicar St. gig

Things are going up and up for Damien Rice, and not just in the charts...

The Story of O

With a self-recorded and self-released album – called simply O – Damien Rice has emerged as a major force in Irish music. But that’s just the start of it: the record is now in the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K., and with the kind of momentum he has generated, the feeling is that it might just go all the way.

Damien Rice shortlisted for the Shortlist

Damien Rice has been announced as a finalist for the US Mercury equivalent

Damien Rice long-listed for the Shortlist

Damien Rice nominated for the US Shortlist Music Prize

Rice and Hannigan to feature on soundrack

Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan have contributed songs for the soundtrack to a new Irish film

Main Stage, Witnness 03

"Emotive and positively full of subtlety and passion and light and shade"

Damien Rice in NYC

Bravo, what an incredible night of music.

The Rice stuff

Jools, Letterman, platinum discs, fan hysteria – it’s all very nice and much appreciated, you understand, but for Damien Rice the bottom line remains the song – and doing things his way.

Damien Rice a "star of the future", says Billboard

O garners rave reviews from heavyweight US press

Rice on Letterman

Damien Rice to appear on The Late Show With David Letter man and plays New York Bowery gig

Damien Rice to play Witnness

Confirmed as the second headliner to Coldplay, gigging at Glastonbury, T in the Park and V2003... It's a busy time in the Rice camp

Damien Rice signs two major licensing deals

His album has gone platinum at home, but now Damien Rice is set to go global with distribution deals for Europe and the US.

The Rice man cometh

Damien Rice takes in the UK, Amsterdam and USA with latest series of dates

The Rice stuff

Damien Rice signs two major licensing deals

O night divine

Damien Rice to appear on that most hallowed of music-telly mainstays, Later With Jools Holland (this Friday, 29th November, BBC2, 11.30pm)

Archive artist of the fortnight: Damien Rice

News, reviews, an interview and streamed audio: everything to delight fans of vowel sounds. O yes

Cannonball!

Damien Rice barrels through Dublin, Galway, Belfast, Limerick and Cork as part of his five date Irish tour

O mercy!

"Only Bob Dylan comes close to such cracked passion." Who's been on the business end of such purple praise, you enquire? Our own Damien Rice, in UK reviews of debut album O, that's who

Cannonball

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Absolutely stunning...

O

O throbs with sheer humanity and bloody-minded honesty in the face of emotional debris

The story of O

Damien Rice has just released his debut solo album and says he's already 'making it'. Pilau talk: Fiona Reid

Red letter day!

Listen to 'Volcano' from Damien Rice's debut album O, out today nationwide

Vowel sounds

Damien Rice launches his brilliant debut album "O" at Vicar Street. O yes he does