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Damien Rice To Tour The World
| DAMIEN RICE TO EMBARK ON WORLDWIDE TOUR / SUMMMER DATES ADDED
MY FAVOURITE FADED FANTASY RELEASED TO WIDESPREAD CRITICAL ACCLAIM; PRODUCED BY RICK RUBIN AND DAMIEN RICE Damien Rice has added further European and U.S. dates to his extensive worldwide tour. Kicking off March 31 at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Rice will make stops at the Beacon Theater in New York City, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, with summer stops at Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Celebrate Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell, a co-headlining date at Chicago’s Prirzker Pavilion with Iron & Wine and at Belgium’s Rock Werchter Festival. More dates coming soon. Of his live set, Billboard hails, “Spellbinding, captivating, riveting, mesmerizing, dazzling—there aren’t enough words in the thesaurus to convey the bravura and depth it takes to hold an entire room in 2014 for two hours with no production, no visuals, no frills, just songs and stories.” A limited number of advance tickets will be available to mailing list subscribers via www.damienrice.com. For the U.S. dates, a 48-hour fan pre-sale window will begin on Tuesday, February 24 at 10 a.m. local time and general on-sale will begin Friday, February 27 at 10 a.m. local time. My Favourite Faded Fantasy, the highly-anticipated new album from Rice, is now available and continues to receive critical praise both stateside and abroad. The record debuted #1 in Ireland, #2 in Holland, #3 in Belgium and #7 in the U.K. Rice also performed the album’s single “I Don’t Want to Change You” on “The Late Show with David Letterman”: http://bit.ly/14Ein4a. My Favourite Faded Fantasy was produced by renowned producer Rick Rubin and Rice. The recording began in Los Angeles and finished up in Iceland. Watch a clip of Rice explaining his creative process here: http://bit.ly/10zh2Kl. Watch the official video for “I Don’t Want to Change You” here: http://bit.ly/1tDE5yq. The clip was directed by Icelandic filmmaking duo Arni & Kinski and also shot in Iceland. DAMIEN RICE TOUR DATES March 31 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle April 1 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium April 3 Washington, D.C. Lincoln Theatre April 4 New York, NY Beacon Theatre April 7 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre April 8 Philadelphia, PA Academy of Music April 10 Montreal, QC L’Olympia April 11 Toronto, ON Massey Hall April 13 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre at Old National Centre April 14 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre April 15 Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium April 17 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater April 20 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium April 21 Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall April 23 Oakland, CA Fox Theater April 24 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre April 27 Mexico City, MX El Plaza Condesa May 29 Barcelona, ES Primavera Sound Festival June 9 Edinburgh, UK Usher Hall June 11 Manchester, UK Albert Hall June 13 London, UK Live at Chelsea June 17 Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park Bandshell June 18 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE June 20 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion June 21 Chicago, IL Prirzker Pavilion* June 22 Toronto, ON Echo Beach June 27 Werchter, BE Rock Werchter 2015 July 12 Dublin, Ireland The Iveagh Gardens July 13 Cork, Ireland Live at the Marquee July 16 Galway, Ireland Galway Arts Festival Big Top July 20 Paris, FR Le Grand Rex July 22 Lucerne, CH Blue Balls Festival August 2 Copenhagen, DK Koncerhuset August 4 Berlin, DE Tempodrom *co-headlining with Iron & Wine |