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Win a chance to see David Gray play live!

David Gray is playing a one-off gig in the intimate environment of Barfly London on 1 March 2004. Enter to win a chance to see him play!

Click here for more details.

Back to The Bars - David to Join others in intimate charity concerts

Passport : Back to The Bars has attracted a stellar line up for its week of small shows March 1-6 next year in aid of War Child and Shelter.   To date, David Gray, The Darkness, Travis, Craig David, Starsailor, Atomic Kitten, Sugababes, So Solid Crew, Gabrielle, Big Brovaz, Floetry, The Cure, Badly Drawn Boy, Supergrass, Texas and Super Furry Animals have confirmed dates at the 6 ŒBarfly¹ venues around the UK.

Fans will send a premium rate text message to enter a lottery to win a pair of entries to an individual show. The venues vary in capacity between 250 to 400 maximum. No tickets will change hands as lottery winners will need their passport to gain entry to the shows. The organisers aim to raise a huge amount for the 2 charities.

More information in the coming weeks.

February 26, 2003

New sheet music is now available online for the 2002 album A New Day at Midnight.  Musicnotes.com is now offering sheet music for the album.  Click here to buy it!

February, 25th, 2003

US summer tourdates announced!

July 17th Hartford, CT @ The Oakdale Theatre
July 18th Manchester, NH @ The Verizon Wireless Arena
July 19th Portland, ME @ The Cumberland Civic Center
July 21st Pittsburgh, PA @ Station Square
July 22nd Norfolk, VA @ The Harbor Center
July 24th Cleveland, OH @ The Tower City Amphitheater
July 25th Cincinnati, OH @ The Riverbend Music Center
July 26th Columbus, OH @ The Promo West Pavilion
July 28th Milwaukee, WI @ Rock Stage
July 29th Indianapolis, IN @ The Verizon Amphitheater
July 31st Nashville, TN @ The AmSouth Amptheater
August 1st St Louis, MO @ The Savvis Center
August 3rd Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Pavilion
August 4th Austin, TX @ The Backyard
August 5th Dallas, TX @ Next Stage
August 7th Phoenix, AZ @ The Dodge Theatre
August 8th San Diego, CA @ OAT
 

January 17th, 2003

Salt Lake City date added For US tour

David and the band have added a gig in Salt Lake City on February 11th at the Kingsbury Hall. 

January 2nd, 2003

David Gray featured on VH1.com

3 video clips are available at www.vh1.com  including Long Distance Call, All the Love and December.  Click here for a direct link

New David Gray album to be released in January in the US

This enhanced CD entitled David Gray: The Early Years will be released in the US on January 28th, 2003 and will have the following tracklisting.  You can order it here from amazon.com.

1. Late Night Radio
2. Century Ends, A
3. Everytime
4. Coming Down
5. Folk Song - (previously unreleased, piano/vocal version)
6. Shine
7. Wisdom
8. Faster Sooner Now
9. New Horizons
10. Gutters Full Of Rain
11. Flame Turns Blue - (previously unreleased)
12. Falling Free
13. Flesh
14. Tell Me More Lies - (previously unreleased)
15. Birds Without Wings
16. She's Gone - (previously unreleased)

Updated list of confirmed US tour dates
1/26 Detroit Fox Theatre (onsale 11/9/02)
1/27 Toronto Air Canada Centre (onsale 11/9/02)
128 Philadelphia Tweeter Ctr (onsale 11/9/02)
1/30 Boston Tsongas Arena (onsale 11/9/02)
1/31 New York Madison Square Garden (onsale 11/9/02)
2/2 Washington Patriot Center (onsale 11/16/02)
2/4 Atlanta Fox Theatre (onsale 11/16/02)
2/5 Louisville Palace Theatre (onsale 11/9/02)
2/7 Chicago UIC Pavillion (onsale 11/9/02)
2/8 Minneapolis Northrup (onsale 11/9/02)
2/10 Denver Pepsi Center (onsale 11/9/02)
2/13 Seatte Key Arena (onsale 11/16/02)
2/15 San Francisco Bill Graham Civic (onsale 11/10/02)
2/16 Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium (onsale 11/0/02)

See Ticketmaster for details

October 8, 2002

Tentative Mini Winter US Tourdates announced for 2003
1/26 Detroit Fox Theatre (onsale 11/9/02)
1/27 Toronto Air Canada Centre (onsale 11/9/02)
128 Philadelphia Tweeter Ctr (onsale 11/9/02)
1/30 Boston Tsongas Arena (onsale 11/9/02)
1/31 New York Madison Square Garden (onsale 11/9/02)
2/2 Washington Patriot Center (onsale 11/16/02)
2/4 Atlanta Fox Theatre (onsale 11/16/02)
2/5 Louisville Palace Theatre (onsale 11/9/02)
2/7 Chicago UIC Pavillion (onsale 11/9/02)
2/8 Minneapolis Northrup (onsale 11/9/02)
2/10 Denver Pepsi Center (onsale 11/9/02)
2/13 Seatte Key Arena (onsale 11/16/02)
2/15 San Francisco Bill Graham Civic (onsale 11/10/02)
2/16 Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium (onsale 11/0/02)

(these dates were validated by the record company, but are not all confirmed as they depend on venue availability and other factors)

September 26, 2002

Mini Winter tour planned for early 2003 in the US
In a recent interview with Cities 97 in Minneapolis / St. Paul (the first station in the US to air the new single The Other Side), Gray mentioned the planning stages of a small US tour to promote the new album.  Look for Midwestern dates starting mid-January.  Check back for details as they arise.

September 19, 2002

New Album Cover Art released / pre-ordering information

1. Dead In The Water 3.07
2. Caroline 3.37
3. Long Distance Call 3.39
4. Freedom 6.43
5. Kangaroo 3.29
6. Last Boat To America 4.49
7. Real Love 4.38
8. Knowhere 3.53
9. December 3.34
10. Be Mine 4.21
11. Easy Way to Cry 3.51
12. The Other Side 4.31

you may pre-order the CD here

• in the UK
• in the USA

"A New Day at Midnight" confirmed release date in the US
The new album from David Gray will be released in the United States on November 5th, 2002 by ATO records.

September 9, 2002

David Gray's New Album "A New Day at Midnight"
The Tracklisting for the new album has just been released.
Album will be released in the UK October 28, 2002.

A New Day At Midnight
Dead In The Water
Caroline
Long Distance Call
Freedom
Real Love
Kangaroo
Last Boat To America
Knowhere
December
Be Mine
Easy Way To Cry
The Other Side

David Gray - A New Day At Midnight
Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Well, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Whether you’re bracing yourself for all-out attack, faint praise or total, sweet surrender, the follow-up to one of the great success stories of our young century is upon us. Four years on from his last album, White Ladder, David Gray and associates present A New Day At Midnight - 12 world class songs from a small room in south London – set for release through iht records/eastwest on October 28, 2002.

You could be forgiven for thinking that this was the difficult second album but in truth it is the (comparatively) painless sixth. Just to throw some context on the impact and scale of its predecessor, White Ladder is certified seven times platinum in the UK with sales of over 2.2 million accrued over more than 100 weeks in the Top 40. In Ireland, at the time of writing, the album has spent 175 weeks on the chart and is the biggest selling, non-compilation album of all time. Beyond statistics, the essence of White Ladder’s creation contributed to its unique status. Here was a record made at home after a series of thwarted excursions into the mainstream and certainly not one fashioned with a view to reaping success on such a scale; an album of unlikely and homespun origins whose instinctive honesty and simplicity found favour around the world. In America to date, two million copies have been sold and David received a Grammy nomination for ‘Best New Artist’ to compliment Ivor Novello and Q awards for the single ‘Babylon’ back home. Clearly its successor would never have the luxury of consensus, building on such dramatic terms.

So how do you follow that? Well, in this case you assemble the winning team: David Gray, his song writing partner and multi instrumental force of nature, Clune, and all-round studio visionary, Iestyn Polson, and repair to Iht’s Clapham studio (all 20 by 10 feet of it) and make the best damn record you can. The fruits of that labour (recorded intermittently in between spring 2001, after the end of touring in September that year, but chiefly in the months leading up to August this year) are certain to both surprise and defy expectations, while demonstrating that Gray’s talent has flowered on a par with his commercial success and that he is, without a doubt, a major force in contemporary music and songwriting.

From its opener, ‘Dead In The Water’, what strikes you is that this is far from an attempt to court success on easy, commercial terms. “The words to that song came one morning and they were a bit like the old me,” says David. “I wasn’t sure whether he was gonna resurface… they had a bit more of an edge to them. I became glad of it, but at the time I was a little bit unsure. It’s more like the old style ‘Birds Without Wings’/ ‘Let The Truth Sting’ approach… From the outset, it makes it distinctly different from White Ladder, which had a real lightness of touch.”

By the last track (and one hesitates to use the word ‘masterpiece’, but what the hell…), ‘The Other Side’, it’s equally clear that this is a serious record. If you can honestly say you love music and you love life, then you won’t be disappointed, which isn’t to say you won’t be surprised.

“After the huge success of White Ladder there was a certain amount of psychology involved with making this record,” says David. “It’s generally unhealthy to be concerning yourself too much with what other people might think. The task I faced was to get past all that, and get on with the job of writing and recording some music that articulated how I was thinking and feeling in the here and now. When recording started there were lots of songs lying around from the previous few years. I really believed that they were important songs, singles, whatever. Hardly any of them made it. As soon as the new songs started to come there was a freshness and a mystery to the recording process that the older songs couldn’t bring. Just for a little while, a new song is free of all that ‘being important’, ‘commercially viable’ crap that you make up in your head. When you first sing it, you sing it innocently, and it’s at that point that you’ve got to nail it. It’s great when it happens, but, of course, like most things, it doesn’t always work out that way. I kept writing right up until the mix, and songs like ‘The Other Side’ were recorded only a few days before we stopped.

There wasn’t time to sit around procrastinating. I finished up the lyrics, and we recorded the whole thing in a couple of hours. It’s those instinctive, unselfconscious moments that for me are the strongest parts of any record. They don’t arrive by magic, they’re more a by-product of hard work. If I had to say the record has a theme, it would be one of loss really. As the title expresses, there’s a vividness to life even at the bleakest, darkest, moments. Those are the times when you get the most out of other people. It’s as though the poignancy of the thing almost gives you a lightness. You feel free of all the stupid shit. You kind of see life and people and what they’re good for… The key cog of the whole thing is that people die and they don’t come back but remnants of them resurface and re-occur and catch you off guard, and it’s not always an easy thing to come to terms with. I’m just doing what I do. It’s not that there’s been a decision made to go in this direction, that’s just the way it’s gone. The ‘pop songs’ that were hanging about didn’t seem to be ringing true there wasn’t enough substance there. Suddenly they weren’t where I was at and I needed to express what I’d been through.”

So what we have here then is a classic, creative paradox, a life-affirming record hewn in the name of mortality. And not one unleavened by lighter moments either. Whilst the tone of White Ladder has shifted, the simplicity of it’s sound and structure are retained. Something that is due in part to using a studio that’s as close to home (in size if not in terms of technology) as you’re going to find. “It is funny using such a tiny studio,” says David. “There are limitations to that. You can’t get a piano in there for one thing, so you do your take on a digital. By contrast any little stupid instrument we bought seemed to feature, from dulcimer ‘Be Mine’ to toy piano ‘Last Boat to America’, melodica ‘Kangaroo’, and dodgy old synths and keyboards. One day we decided we’d hire a steel drum and play it ourselves. But it is just a big can with dents in it. You need 20 to make the sound blend into a sympathetic whole. With one, replicated over and over again, it just sounds horribly out of tune, it sounded fucking terrible! That was a waste of a day. This record sounds a whole lot bigger and deeper than White Ladder did. This time, at least, we had some decent microphones so we could record the drums properly. It’s been done to a higher level but it still feels home made. We just decided that that’s our vibe at this point in time. I’m not arsed about making some super-clean sounding studio record. I like the lo-fi quality. We just took up where we left off [with White Ladder]. Once you’ve got all your anxieties out of your system, it’s the same old process, it’s a simple thing.” Steel drums apart.

So, what could have simply been the next step on the career path, reveals itself instead to be something far more singular. An event and a piece of work in its own right. A record about change and loss that is anything but a linear progression from its predecessor, and one made for a million ears to hear but that emerges infused with intimacy and that plays and was built by its own rules.

Thanks to Warner Music Australia for the Article

David Gray's new single is entitled "The Other Side."  Details at eleven

Gray talks about the new album in Q magazine

Q
September 2002
Page 30

Advanced Warning!
Albums in the pipeline

This Month:
David Gray
Out: October

“We were meant to finish the album last week so it’s a bit Panic Stations,” says David Gray, not sounding particularly perturbed. Other People probably would be: having continued to write during the 2 year promotion of 2000’s White Ladder, Gray found himself with too much unsuitable material, so ended up writing until the last week of production. “there has been pressure,” he admits.

Recording began in earnest at the start of this year, mainly in his own Claustrophobia studio in Clapham, which he describers as “really small and crappy and covered with graffiti”. He only left to go to “posh places for the posh bits”, meaning London Studios Sphere, Whitfield St and Olympic.

Tracks completed at time of Q’s interview include possible single Caroline, an uptempo electro-meets-country track with steel-pedal guitar; along with voice, piano and drums album-closer The Other Side.

“Sound-wise it’s not a million miles away from White Ladder,” says Gray, who confirms the presence of “Crusty Loops” and synthesizers. “It’s maybe a little more serious in its subject matter. My dad died, among other things – the things that happen in life. So there are quite a few references to death.”

“I’m still in the heat of battle so I have no clear view of it yet,” concludes the man who’s planning a Complementary mini-album of extra tracks. “I don’t know if there’s a Babylon on it, maybe one of the jollier things will end up like that – some fucking moron DJ will play it all the time and bug everyone to fuck.”

July 31, 2002

David's Upcoming album, currently untitled, will be released in the United States on November 5th, 2002.  More details as they are available.

July 20, 2002

A SORROWFUL MOON EXCLUSIVE!

According to an Ireland RMG distribution representative, the new United Kingdom release date for the upcoming David Gray album will be October 28th, 2002, and most likely the 25th for Ireland.  Information will be available as it becomes available.  The release will be backed by an 18-date tour in the UK.  No information is available on the release in the US and Europe.

March 11, 2002
Sorrowful Moon gets a mention In the new David Gray biography.  Page 112, paragraph four:

"The obligatory www.davidgray.com came into its own once "Babylon" became a hit ,but with little input from the man himself. It remained the province of the grayites to produce he best web work. Trying to make sense of the rain, David Gray heaven and Sorrowful Moon were among the newer arrivals, the latter two concentrating on making guitar tablature and lyrics of his music - even the unreleased songs - available to all that wanted them."

The new David Gray biography, by Michael Heatley is available in the UK only at present.  Orders can be placed here.

Thanks to all who have helped makt this site a success!

February 17, 2002

David Gray will be appearing on the Comcast CN8 Network at 10pm Sunday, February 17th.  Exact date and setlist of the concert are unknown at this point.  It is scheduled to last one hour.  For more info click here

February 4, 2002

NEW ALBUM EXCLUSIVE!

In a recent radio interview, David Gray played 3 "new" songs that are possibly going to make an appearance on the new album.  The song "Last Boat to America," which was played on the 2001 tour was included as well as two never before heard songs called "Freedom" and "Easy Way to Cry."  Lyrics to "Freedom" which was not played all the way though in the interview, is apparently in response to the Sept 11th attacks on America.  Lyrics transcribed from the interview can be accessed by clicking here.

January 5, 2002
David Gray has been nominated for the Best New Artist for the 2002 Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 27th, 2002. 

For US fans, the DVD "Live At the Point" will be released on December 11, 2001

June 3, 2001
David Gray has won the 2001 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, for his song Babylon from White Ladder.

The IVORS is internationally respected as the premier award ceremony to reflect the talent of British songwriters and composers and their contribution as the creative source of the music industry's prosperity

David Gray
“Live at Joes Pub”
ATO Records (Engineered)

Is this a mystery live release slated for summer or fall debut in the US?  I won't say it is fact, but it sure is interesting.

May 26, 2001
HUT to release new compilation of David Gray's early EP's entitled The EPs 92-94
The track listing is as follows, and release date is July 2, 2001-

1 Birds Without Wings
2 L's Song
3 The Light
4 Shine
5 Brick Walls
6 The Rice
7 Wisdom
8 Lovers
9 4am
10 Coming Down

Also, a re-release A Century Ends and Flesh is planned