Damien Rice: single Italian date in 2027 for the 25th anniversary of O

Damien Rice is coming back to Italy. Four years after his last appearance in the country, the Irish singer-songwriter will perform at the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome on Sunday, April 4, 2027. The Rome show will be the only Italian date of the celebratory tour organized for the twenty-fifth anniversary of “O”, the landmark debut album released in February 2002.

Written, recorded and self-produced at home with financial support from his father and invaluable advice from composer David Arnold (the artist's second cousin), “O” was born with no ambition whatsoever of climbing the charts.

After turning down an initial record deal, Rice had temporarily given up music to retreat to Tuscany and work as a farmer, before picking up the guitar again and touring Europe as a busker. His return to Ireland in 1999 laid the groundwork for a record that would redefine the standards of early-2000s folk songwriting, thanks to confessional, gut-wrenching writing set against stripped-down arrangements.

Twenty-five years on, the songs from that debut retain all of their evocative power intact. The anniversary tour will touch down in 25 cities around the world, bringing back to the stage a repertoire that has become the soundtrack for more than one generation.

The live dimension has always been the core of the Damien Rice experience: unpredictable, raw and emotionally dense concerts, capable of transforming every track and keeping the audience's devotion alive even in the face of the artist's proverbially long recording silences.

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