David Gray

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601 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 13 May

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Culture Club: David Gray · 13 May 2026 podcast

That's right, yeah.

Sometimes when I write a new record, I feel that it's going to have trouble competing with the big songs in the set.

So I have to think carefully about how I'm going to present the new music.

It's important for most tours to represent the present as well as the past.

But with this record, I felt it could go shoulder to shoulder with some of those big songs.

I feel that the music on Dear Life is very melodic, it's very direct.

And that's been borne out by the tour.

And I also wanted to do like a deep dive each night.

So not just the big hits, which are always there, and some of the new music, but also to focus on different albums like Lost Songs, New Day at Midnight, things that haven't been played so much, A Century Ends or whatever.

And do a little deep dive each night into, so shake it up essentially.

So rehearsals, we looked at over 70 songs.

And we've played about that many across the tour.

So we've really varied the set list.

So although the big numbers are always in and some of the key songs from the new record, the rest of the set's quite fluid and sort of changes.

So it keeps it fresh for us, importantly, but also for the audience.

It's had a kind of celebrational energy.

I've managed to remain present on stage rather than just switch into sort of industrial... Autopilot?

Yeah, industrial music-making mode, which when you're doing tens and tens and tens of shows can be sort of a trap you fall into when you start to think that every gig's the same.

So I've made it deliberately different and it's worked.

Keeping everybody, including the audience, slightly off balance so that it enables something to happen particular to that night is important.

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