Damien Rice's follow up to 9 already in the pipeline
Damien Rice’s 9 album hasn’t even hit the racks yet, and he’s already actively piecing together the follow-up!
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 06 Oct 2006
The good/bad news is that he’s so determined to finish it off that for the forseeable future he won’t be doing any gigs, telly or press.
Explains Damien: “I’ve really got some momentum at the moment. I've moved straight on to the next record and I’m anxious to press on with that, so I'm putting aside any notions of tours or interviews for the time being. With 9 we didn’t actually do that much recording, but it was spread out over a period of time. Much of it came about by accident. I don’t know if I’m just one of those people, I just follow my nose and end up somewhere where I really want to be.”
Having revealed that he went through two titles before settling on 9 – A Hen Will Sit On An Unfertilized Egg and You Love Her, You Even Love The Shit You Hate About Her – Damo goes on to enthuse about the atmosphere in the studio.
“We weren’t really a band when we recorded O whereas on this record everybody was pretty much involved from the beginning,” he says. “From the touring that we’ve done together everyone has a more intuitive feel as to what we like and what suits the songs.
The key event that got the record finished was probably the band getting frustrated with waiting around for me. It's one thing somebody on the outside saying, 'Oh, when's he ever gonna put out another record?' But it's another thing when the band members sort of walk away from you with a sense that they don't believe that you're ever going to do it. I think it was in that moment that I kind of had that classic feeling of when someone tells you that you can't do something. I usually take that as a challenge and I like to prove to the person that I can! That was probably one of the biggest things that actually got this record going. I'd say that was the key in a way, because it was after that that I really knuckled down. It sounds really immature, but then writing songs is immature.”
The album coming out on November 6 is a very different to the one that Rice originally imagined.
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