Does anybody know what happened to Damien Rice?

Question

if so is he working on a new album?

Answer 1

Damien Rice has been active in a "global campaign to free Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi is now serving her third term of house arrest. She was arrested on 30 May, 2003 after the regime's militia attacked her convoy and killed up to 100 of her supporters."

Damien Rice has recorded "Unplayed Piano," a single that is scheduled to release on June 20th, the day after Aung San Suu Kyi's 60th birthday. His has also scheduled two solo shows with the proceeds going in support of this campaign. Kate Earl will be joining Damien on the stage of both shows as a special guest. His shows are scheduled for June 20th at the Palladium in London, and June 30th at the Trianon in Paris. However the London show is already sold out.

Rice feels the need to participate in this campaign because, "She is the world's only incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize recipient. On her 60th birthday Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 2,523 days in detention."

Damien Rice doesn't consider himself a political activist, so it is fair to assume that he will not spend much time contributing to this campaign, despite its much needed support. If she is released for her sixtieth birthday we can expect Rice to rejoice in the success of the campaign, and to schedule himself a few more tour dates. However, his fans are becoming anxious for some new material, so hopefully Rice will not make his fans wait much longer after the release of 'Unplayed Piano' for the release of his sophomoric release.

For more recent news about him, go to... http://www.damienrice.com/news.html

Answer 2

Saw him recently a couple of years back at the Hop Farm, think he's still gigging? Have you checked out Scarlett Parade, they're a similar act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImMb3dU4JWU

Answer 3

His official site is at http://www.damienrice.com/ .

Latest news from his site:
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last updated 20 July 2006

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20 July 2006

Amendment to announcement re Ticket on sale date for Dublin shows below

Tickets for the 2 Vicar Street shows go on sale this Saturday, 22nd JULY (not August
as mentioned in the announcement below) at 10AM.


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19 July 2006

Dublin shows announced - 29th & 30th August

Damien with full band Lisa Hannigan, Tom Osander, Vyvienne Long, Shane Fitzsimons and
2 additional musican's - Joel Shearer on Guitar and Cora Venus Lunny on Viola/Violin will
play 2 shows in Dublin's Vicar Street this August as a warm up to Electric Picnic.

The 2 show dates are 29th & 30th August.

Tickets for these shows go on sale this Saturday, 22nd August at 10AM.

Tickets are available from Dublin stores, Road Records and Sound Cellar as well as from
Ticketmaster outlets nationwide www.ticketmaster.ie / ROI 0818 719 300 / NI 0870 243 4455 /
International 00353 1 4569569"