Name: Damien Rice
Genre: Folk
Day: Sunday

Wikipedia sez: “Damien Rice (born December 7, 1973) is an Irish folk singer most famous for his two albums ‘O’ and ‘9′. Damien Rice was born in Dublin, Ireland to George and Maureen Rice and grew up in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. He was originally in the band Juniper, a rock band which released the singles “The World Is Dead” and “Weatherman”. On the eve of recording their first full album for Polygram in 1999, Rice became disenchanted with the commercial label and quit. His Juniper bandmates became Bell X1. He moved to rural Italy where he played acoustic guitar, wrote songs, and busked around Europe until he was able to form a band and get coffeeshop gigs in the Dublin area. Exploiting a lucky connection to David Arnold, his second cousin, Rice was able to record O, for which he won the Shortlist Music Prize in 2003. The other members of the band are Lisa Hannigan who sings and occasionally plays guitar and bass; cellist Vyvienne Long; percussionist Tom Osander (aka: Tomo) a member of the 90’s jam band God Street Wine; and bassist Shane Fitzsimons.”

I haven’t got anything against Damien Rice, but his music is just not for me. Something about it just doesn’t work. I did have a laugh at the Wikipedia article mentioning that he is stick of people recording his concert with mobile phones rather then just watching and listening to it tho.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Nope.

Read on to view Damien Rice live videos…

Damien Rice - Elephant (Live)

Damien Rice - Eskimo (Live)