David Gray has continued to thrill his fans throughout the 2000s and 2010s with consistent album releases and show-stopping concerts.
This week, the British singer-songwriter, who hails from Cheshire, has confirmed the release date of his upcoming 13th album, Dear Life, will be released on January 17, 2025.
This exciting collection of songs will be Gray’s first new music since 2019’s Skellig. And to celebrate, he’s hitting the road.
From March 2025, Gray will be playing gigs and concerts around the UK in almost every major city on the continent. And that’s, of course, after he plays shows up and down North America, as well.
Here’s the lowdown on how to get presale and how to secure your own tickets this week.
David Gray is holding a limited presale through certain venues this week. Most of these are being hosted at O2 venues from Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 10am.
These tickets will only be available through O2 Priority, which is only accessible through the O2 mobile phone network. As a result, if you have an account, you should have access. If not, you can get started using this link, or the one below.
Otherwise, here’s the link you need:
Speaking out about his upcoming new album and tour, Gray said: “Some unfinished songs just refuse to do the polite thing and go away. And that’s certainly true of this one, which had me going round in circles for nearly 20 years to the point where it almost drove me crazy. ‘Plus & Minus’ is based in part on a chord sequence that was born way back in 2004, and it’s no exaggeration to say that it has taken all those long, intervening years to fully resolve it.
“It’s an unusual sort of song for me to write in that it’s an out-and-out three minute pop song. In a slightly ‘Babylon’ style, it revolves around the same idea three times.
“In ‘Babylon’, we had Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Here we have ‘You know the way desire is … You know the way the light is … You know the way that time is.’ I could see that from the word go. It’s so full of hooks both lyrically and melodically that it needed a tight arrangement to really optimise their value. This took a LOT of work to get right, but we got there in the end…even if the end was 20 years on from the beginning!”
He went on to add: “A lot has happened to me. There’s been change on so many levels, all the ups and downs and dramas and tragedies and joys that the slow movement through life brings. This record has been a reckoning with stuff that’s been building up like static for years. But I say this with joy and a smile on my face. I know what I’ve done is as good as anything I could possibly do.”
