Damien Rice returns to O, the 2002 debut behind “The Blower’s Daughter”, on the first of two London nights for its 25th anniversary.
Damien Rice, the Irish singer-songwriter behind “The Blower’s Daughter” and “Cannonball”, plays the Lyceum Theatre in Covent Garden on Monday 19 April 2027. The concert marks 25 years since his debut album, O.
Rice was born in Dublin in 1973 and grew up in Celbridge, County Kildare. In 1991 he formed the rock band Juniper with schoolmates there, and the group later signed a record deal with PolyGram.
He left Juniper in 1998, frustrated by the compromises the label asked of the band. The other members carried on as Bell X1. Rice farmed in Tuscany for a time and busked across Europe before going home to Ireland with his songs.
He wrote, recorded and produced O at home and released it on his own label in 2002. The album won the Shortlist Music Prize.
In Britain, O reached number eight on the UK albums chart and stayed on the chart for 97 weeks.
The Lyceum is the first of his two London nights on this tour. He has not released a studio album since My Favourite Faded Fantasy in 2014, and the evening returns to the songs of O.