For you guys who care about Damien Rice’s view on Lisa Hannigan, he gave an interview in September 2014. Just google “I opened every can of worms I could”. Here are some highlights of his interview:

This is the first Damien Rice album not to feature Lisa Hannigan. To give a sense of how critical a part she played in his recording history, consider that hers is the last voice the listener hears on his much-adored debut album, O, and the first they hear on its follow-up, 9.

“It wasn’t even so much missing the voice,” he says. “It was just missing Lisa. It was missing my partner in the studio. She was not afraid, to be honest with me if she didn’t like something. That was very healthy for me, whereas initially, for this, I was on my own without somebody to tell me, ‘This is crap – do that again’. I was missing that and that’s why I reached out to Rick [Rubin, the album’s producer] – because Lisa wasn’t around, I needed somebody who wasn’t going to want to change me but be able to stand there in front of me and tell me ‘not good enough’.”

He had wanted her to sing on the album. “I spoke to her about it and asked her what she thought of it [making music together] and she very beautifully responded saying that she thinks it’s best for both of us that we” – here he pauses for a long time to find the right words – “do our own thing for now.

“The moment I got that response – boom! – everything started working. Because I could let go and I was like ‘ok, I’m doing this alone.”

That sense of liberation was tinged with sadness. “I don’t think the two of us will work together again,” he says, looking at his hands, “but there’s no reason why we couldn’t play live together again sometime.”

I ask him if he would ever change anything about the past. “No,” he says, without hesitation. “I think it’s perfect. That’s why sometimes when people bring up the Lisa thing, I am so grateful for everything I experienced with her because I got to learn amazing things.”

Would he trade the hard times for her still to be part of his music and personal life? This time, there’s a long pause. “I am totally different now than when I did that Hot Press interview [in which he declared his love for Hannigan a few years after they split]. My perspective on things is totally different. I wouldn’t change a single thing I ever said, even hurtful stuff.

Damien Rice’s vocal range

CR’s Take

Recommended
Score 77

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Damien Rice – live at sea • 2019

Damien rice – live at sea, somewhere in Spain • 2019
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Thanks for these ‘On the Boat” sessions. The artists with Damien are With Greta Zuccoli (vocals) – who toured with Damien in at least Rome and Paris in late 2017-early 2018. Gyða Valtýsdóttir (Gyda Valtysdottir) (cello and acoustic guitar), Shazad Ismaily (guitar, percussion), Philip ‘Phil’ Weinrobe (guitar, vocals, recording/audio engineering). 

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