Damien Rice declares comeback tour for 2023
Damien Rice has introduced his comeback with particulars of a 2023 UK and European tour – see the checklist of dates under and buy tickets here.
The Irish singer-songwriter final launched an album 9 years in the past with ‘My Favorite Light Fantasy’, which itself got here eight years after its predecessor, 2006’s ‘9’.
After taking part in a sequence of gigs in 2019, Rice will head to mainland Europe and the UK subsequent March and April for his first gigs for the reason that pandemic.
The tour begins on March 15 in Manchester on the O2 Apollo, with a London present at Hammersmith Apollo the next night time.
European gigs in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and extra will then observe, earlier than the tour wraps up in Zagreb on April 2.
Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday, December 2 at 9am GMT. Buy your tickets for the UK gigs here then and see the total checklist of Damien Rice’s new tour dates under.
MARCH 2023
15 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
16 – London, Eventim Apollo Hammersmith
18 – Antwerp, Stadsschouwburg
19 – Paris, Le Grand Rex
22 – Amsterdam, Royal Theatre Carre
25 – Berlin, Tempodrom
29 – Milan, Teatro dal Verme
31 – Udine, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine
APRIL 2023
2 – Zagreb, Kino SC
Rice hasn’t launched any new music alongside the announcement of the tour dates, however promised that “extra dates [are] coming quickly” and shared a teaser of him performing a brand new track and confirmed that new music is about to be arriving.
Watch that clip under.
new songs and tour coming quickly
dates shall be introduced on Friday… pic.twitter.com/TEHxcGhmXh— damien rice (@DamienRice) November 21, 2022
Talking in 2013 concerning the time taken between 2006’s ‘9’ and and its follow-up, Rice stated: “Typically it’s a must to step away from what you’re keen on with the intention to discover ways to adore it once more.”
Talking of recording with Rick Rubin in each Los Angeles and Iceland, he added: “I got here to Rick largely based mostly on what I didn’t learn about him, slightly than what I did.
“For some motive I simply had a sense that I might really feel comfy being open and being me and being weak with Rick.”