The Frames have flatly denied that their top 5 'Fake' single is an attack on Damien Rice.

"It's funny how these rumours appear, build up a head of steam and then become regarded as a fact," Glen Hansard tells Hot Press.

"'Fake' is about any situation where a relationship falls apart and one person starts seeing somebody else. That always brings the green-eyed monster to the fore and causes all sorts of odd emotions to boil to the surface."

So, contrary to what you might have read in one of the Sunday papers, Damien and The Frames are still the best of mates.