Damien Rice brings the 25th anniversary tour of O, the debut album behind “Cannonball”, to The London Palladium on his second London night.
Damien Rice plays The London Palladium in the West End on Tuesday 20 April 2027, the second of two London nights marking 25 years of his debut album. O, released in 2002, gave him “The Blower’s Daughter” and “Cannonball”.
Born in Dublin in 1973, Rice began in Juniper, a rock band formed with schoolmates in Celbridge, County Kildare. He left it in 1998 and spent the next years farming in Tuscany and busking around Europe.
He gave a demo to his second cousin, the composer David Arnold, who lent him a mobile recording studio. Rice made O with musicians including the singer Lisa Hannigan and the cellist Vyvienne Long, and released it on his own label.
The album reached number eight in Britain and spent 97 weeks on the UK albums chart. “Cannonball” and “Volcano” both became top 30 singles here.
Two studio albums followed, 9 in 2006 and My Favourite Faded Fantasy in 2014, which is still his most recent. The Palladium concert comes the evening after his night at the Lyceum Theatre in Covent Garden.