Vowel sounds

Damien Rice's O album gets the official launch treatment on January 31st when he plays a hometown headliner at Dublin's Vicar Street - which is sadly already sold out.

Any Dublin-based disappointees however have two chances to catch Mr Rice at Tower Records, Wicklow St: Saturday February 2nd (12pm), and Thursday, February 7th (7pm).

Those dates apart, his promo tour takes him to:

The Kelly Show (February 1st);

The Menagerie, Belfast (1st);

Heartbeat City, Mullingar (2nd @ 3pm);

An Taibhdhearc, Galway (3rd);

McCarrigle's, Sligo (5th);

Spirit Store, Dundalk (6th);

Dolan's Warehouse, Limerick (14th);

The Stables, Mullingar (16th);

and last but not least, the Olympia Theatre, Dublin (March 1st).