CPI Archive 2008: Sewing it alone. With a new album and a new musical life, Lisa Hannigan is an artist on the up. Andrew Hamilton chats to the soft spokes songstress and find out about making music as a cottage industry and life after Damien Rice.
LOOKING in from the fringes, all seemed calm. Six years had brought unriveled success; countless gigs in sold-out venues, three million album with all the trimmings. The kingdom was theirs to share. On March 26 last however, all that changed. On that day Damien Rice announced to the world that his professional relationship with Lisa Hannigan had “run its creative course”. Suddenly, and for the first time in her career, Lisa was unemployed. While the exact ins and outs of the ending of this musical pairing remain a mystery, Hannigan’s six years on the road with Rice are times that she remembers fondly. "I never really found it [working with Rice] stifling. I mean, I met wonderful people during that time, a lot of the people that I am still working with. To get to travel and play gigs and see how that works, and then to do recordings and learn how that worked, I learned so much from that and had a lot of fun doing it at the same time,” she said.
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