here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cTwenty-five years on \u2014 through the touring, the silence, the surreal and swift passing of time \u2014 the songs of\u202fo\u202fhave never stopped travelling with him,\u201d a statement from the promoters said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow he returns to where it all began: 25 cities for the 25th anniversary of o, the music that started it all, played again for the audience that grew around it and the new audience drawn to its sense of timelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Released in 2002, O featured hit singles Cannonball, The Blower\u2019s Daughter and Delicate. Written, recorded and produced at home, the album was funded by a loan from Rice\u2019s father.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The album won Rice praise for his confessional songwriting and stripped-back sound, which helped shape a wave of introspective singer-songwriters in the 2000s.<\/p>\n
It reached number two in Ireland and won the Shortlist Prize for Artistic Achievement in Music in 2003,\u00a0an award for albums that had sold less than 500,000 copies.<\/p>\n
It later went on to receive gold certification in the United States, with sales of 650,000 copies.<\/p>\n
Rice began his music career as a founding member of Juniper, the rock band he founded in Celbridge in 1991. They were signed to Polygram Records in 1997 and enjoyed moderate success in Ireland, releasing singles The World is Dead and Weatherman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rice left the band in 1998 and moved to Italy, where he worked for a time as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe. He returned to Ireland in 2001 and began his solo career. The rest of Juniper went on to become Bell X1.<\/p>\n
After O, Rice released his second album 9 in 2006, followed by My Favourite Faded Fantasy in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAMIEN RICE IS marking the 25th anniversary of his celebrated debut album O with a tour in 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[278172,278173,278174,121212,93,61,60,278,60203,24833],"class_list":["post-656779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-25-years-25-cities","tag-and-so-it-is","tag-cannonball","tag-damien-rice","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-o","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}