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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 22, 2022
Even more shopping for a third day in New York City! Damian was spotted again for a third time with Alison Mosshart while in New York as they do more shopping and cool off with cold drinks to beat the summer heat.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 21, 2022
More shopping, or is that a doggy bag from a luncheon? Either way Damian was spotted again for a second time with Alison Mosshart while in New York as they explore the streets of the Big Apple on Saturday, August 20, 2022.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 20, 2022
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Damian was spotted again in New York on Friday evening, August 19, 2022, as seen pictured here with Alison Mosshart and CBS Bluebloods writer Jack Ciapciak. Damian is in town for the screening of his 2004 movie Keane, this time with a 4K restoration, and will attend a Q&A following the 6:30 p.m. screening on Saturday, August 20.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 19, 2022
Look who’s back in town! Damian was spotted shopping with Alison Mosshart at boutiques and galleries in the SoHo district of New York City on Thursday, August 18, 2022, ahead of 2004 movie Keane‘s 4K restoration screening at Film at Lincoln Center. Damian, along with director Lodge Kerrigan, will attend the Keane Q&A following the 6:30 p.m. screening on Saturday, August 20. Tickets are sold out for the much anticipated event.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 12, 2022
UPDATE: On Saturday, September 24 it was announced that Damian will be unable to attend this event due to unforeseen circumstances.
Damian will be presenting the winners’ trophies at CureEB’s Butterfly Run this year. After a break due to the pandemic, CureEB is delighted to invite the public back to their Butterfly Run at Olympic Park in London on Sunday, September 25, 2022. The charity encourages as many people of all abilities to run, walk or wheel in the 1k, 5k or 10k race to help raise vital funds to cure EB. CureEB’s Butterfly Run is a celebration of inclusivity!
CureEB funds medical research to find a cure for all types of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a severe genetic skin condition that leads to blistering and skin loss at the slightest friction. Children with the condition are often referred to as ‘Butterfly Children’ as their skin is said to be as fragile as a butterfly’s wings.
You can make a donation or raise sponsorship at their Just Giving page here.
For more information, please visit CureEB’s website here.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 7, 2022
Damian Lewis unveiled his debut solo album at the Wilderness Festival on Sunday, August 7, 2022 at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire. He performed Little One and other originals on The Forum stage, said to be the flagship ideas tent at the heart of the festival, along with an eclectic music line-up that also included South Korean DJ Peggy Gou and dance act Underworld.
Poshtock is the local nickname for the Wilderness Festival and home of luxury glamping, Michelin-starred food, mindfulness classes and champagne picnics. Set in the open rolling Cotswolds countryside, Wilderness is held each August on a 5,000-acre estate owned by Lord Rotherwick. Wilderness is a lifestyle jamboree, boasting £6,000 yurts and eclectic music and said to be a festival for the Waitrose crowd.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 6, 2022
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Look what we have here! Damian and Gully were spotted in the new Riverside Stands at Craven Cottage for the Fulham vs. Liverpool match on the second day of Premier League. Liverpool’s opening line-up included: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago, Salah, Firmino and Diaz. Let’s go LFC! You Never Walk Alone. Final score? 2-2 draw.
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by Stephen Dalton | The Times | August 5, 2022
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Not many aspiring musicians get to pack a fancy London club to the rafters with hooting fans at their very first gig, but Damian Lewis did arrive at Omeara with a head start in the fame stakes. The Homeland, Billions and Wolf Hall star had busked around London and France in the embryonic stages of his acting career, more recently giving a few low-key private performances for friends. But during lockdown he began writing songs in earnest in collaboration with the east London-based jazz-pop band Kansas Smitty’s. This was a preview of his debut album, set for release early next year.
Backed by a six-piece band full of Kansas Smitty’s regulars, including the alto saxophonist Giacomo Smith and the guitarist Dave Archer, Lewis opened in full-on Elvis Presley pastiche mode with a retro-flavoured rocker, possibly titled She’s My Little One, yelping his hiccupy vibrato vocal over honking harmonica. But his main musical hinterland was more mellow jukebox Americana, taking in coffee-table blues, laidback country-rock and jaunty big-band jazz crooning, with varying degrees of success.
The 51-year-old actor made his trad-leaning tastes plain with a respectful cover of Neil Young’s radiant midlife love ballad Harvest Moon, which wafted along on heart-twanging pedal steel guitar and woozy honky-tonk piano. He earned hipster connoisseur points with his husky-voiced solo piano rendition of Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love), from the first Tom Waits album, Closing Time.
Only on a handful of numbers did Lewis seem to step outside self-conscious performance mode and stop coming across like an actor playing a musician. That said, he closed on a high with a superb folk-rock track that began as a gently tumbling waltz before building to a crashing, emotionally raw blast. This was the best song of the night, sounding like a lost Jeff Buckley classic in places. More of this passion and swagger could have really lifted this show.
Of course there is a long and ignoble history of actors changing lanes to try out their musical skills in public, only to be rightly laughed off stage. Lewis is no fool; he knows this all too well, which may explain why he peppered this set with self-effacing jokes and humble expressions of gratitude. In fairness, he did not disgrace himself.
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by Neil McCormick | The Telegraph | August 4, 2022
“You! Are at … our … very first! Ever! Gig!”
proclaimed Damian Lewis, as commandingly as if delivering Shakespeare with a few Pinteresque pauses.
He played a double agent in Homeland, an insider trader in Billions and an unusually slender Henry VIII in Wolf Hall. But Lewis’s latest and perhaps most personal role is as a soulful singer-songwriter.
The 51-year-old TV and film star took to the tiny stage at the Omeara club in London carrying an acoustic guitar and backed by a six-piece band of jazzy virtuosos playing flowing, intense, sophisticated songs of love and loss.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 4, 2022
Damian Lewis unveiled an intimate warm-up performance to a sold-out crowd at London’s Omeara venue on Thursday, August 4, 2022 with special guest Cherise Adams-Burnett. Damian’s opening song was titled Little One which no doubt is in honor of Helen McCrory. Other song titles included Hole in My Roof, Zaragoza, Soho Tango, Down on the Bowery, Neil Young’s Harvest Moon, Never Judge a Man by His Umbrella, Tom Waits’ Little Trip to Heaven, Wanna Grow Old in Paris, Makin’ Plans, Why, She Comes, and JJ Cale/Eric Clapton’s After Midnight.
He sang in one emotional track: ‘You and me should be together ’til the end. So bye bye, baby, I can’t wait to see your smile again.’ Another track, which he performed near the end of his set, seemed to also relate to losing a partner. Damian sang: ‘She comes as a blackbird, she comes as a fox. She sits at the window, she sings from a rock. She’s the moon in the day and the sun that shines in the dark. She rests in me and she rests in shade. She’s my joy, she’s my pain and she rained on me.’
Damian’s father, his brother William Russell and sister Amanda Yaxley were in the crowd, as well as his children Manon and Gulliver. As RSJrFanWorld shared on Twitter, “Laughter, tears, dancing, seriously fabulous shoes…our redheaded Elvis brought it all tonight.” Our sentiments exactly. Damian’s untitled debut album is due to be released next year.
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | August 1, 2022
Damian attended the launch party for “Summer Chill,” the new album by multi-talented pianist/organist Joe Webb (Kansas Smitty’s House Band) on Monday, August 1, 2022 at the 100 Club, London. The iconic club is world famous and totes 79 years of British musical history from jazz to punk to rock and roll and beyond. He sure is hitting the music scene!
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by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 22, 2022
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There were sightings of Damian and family vacationing in Italy with his brother Gareth Lewis earlier this month and now it seems Damian has made the trek over to Portugal, no doubt to meet up with his nephew Tom Yaxley in Madrid who is on his penultimate day of the Ride4Hugo biking campaign in support of Damian’s nephew and Tom’s brother Hugo, as well as Helen McCrory. More information about that here.
Damian stopped in to dine at the restaurant Borda do Cais located in Ferragudo, Portugal on Thursday, July 21, 2022. The restaurant specializes in fresh fish and shellfish, complete with a wine cellar. More information about the restaurant here.