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5th May 2023
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The 32-year-old went on to enjoy worldwide fame, selling millions of albums and on tonight’s Late Late Show he tells of how he recently got to meet with Rice again.
“It had been such a long time since I have been obviously young and seen him at Whelan’s,” he said.
"And I sort of got to know his sister a bit here and I never knew whether he liked me because he is a very elusive person and I’d sort of gone through life…you know Van Morrison is sort of an elusive person and he said he liked me.
“And I was like ‘if Van Morrison said that he liked me’ and Eminem did the same and Eric Clapton and all these people and then I am like ‘I wonder does he [Damien Rice] like me?’"
Ed said that he decided to take a chance and called to Damien’s door for a catch up with the iconic Cannonball singer.
“Yeah, so I got to the country that he was living in, that his sister said that he was living in, and yeah, I just sort of knocked on his door and we went for a long walk and a big catch up,” he told Tubridy.
“And it is weird saying it was like hanging out with an old friend, like we got on instantly. And now we email all the time and catch up and we shared songs.
“We had like a 12-hour chat, and it was like, it was such a nice full circle moment.
"Because I spent my whole life idolising him and also shouting him out at every opportunity because I would not be a singer/songwriter had I not gone to Whelan’s and watched Damien Rice play.”
You can watch the full interview on the Late Late Show tonight, on RTE One at 9:35 pm.
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