Eight years is a long time, but My Favourite
Faded Fantasy is unlike anything Damien Rice has done. His vocals are still sensitive and
passionate. The title song, featuring both a bass guitar and an upright bass,
as well as more tried-and-true strings, electric keyboard, and those signature
acoustic strums, the song starts as a slow tale. Then it grows into its loud,
sweeping finish, with the lead guitar blending perfectly into the background,
as Rice cries, “I’ve never loved.”
Rice performed
to a full house at the Tabernacle on March 31.
His performance echoed a realization that being loved isn’t everything,
and that giving love to someone who’s no longer there means nothing. “You could
have my favorite face and favorite name/ I know someone who could play the part
but it wouldn’t be the same,” Rice sings. “You could be my poison, my cross, my
razor blade/ I could love you more than life if I wasn’t so afraid.”
Damien Rice
played My Favourite Faded Fantasy, 9
Crimes, Elephant, The Professor & La Fille Danse, Delicate, I Don’t Want to
Change You, Woman Like a Man, Cold Water, The Greatest Bastard, Amie/Sex
Change, Older Chests, Grey Room, Volcano, Coconut Skins and The Blower’s
Daughter. Rice ended the evening
with Trusty and True and I Remember.
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