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

I don't usually start with a couple of oldies, drop a new one, or front load the front of the set with the new stuff.

I've done that in the past as it seemed like the best approach.

Let's do some new stuff, then get the stuff.

Because it's hard to activate the crowd into sort of full sing-along mode and then get them back to listening to something they don't know so well.

So, I mean, when you've had some success and you've got songs that do sort of get the crowd going, gigs are sort of dealing with that.

And it's a negotiation how you play the audience and their attention and how you bring their emotions into the package.

Yeah.

yeah that's that's just guided but i mean but luckily i think i've got songs even though they're not they might not be hits so things like the title track of life in slow motion for example big song and um when people hear it through the speakers and it's thundering down on them they're captivated by that they're held in the spell and then you follow that up with the one i love and then they sort of release a bit of energy and then you bring them back into blah blah blah

So it's a kind of flow.

It's a confluence of different things all flowing into each other and through each other and inevitably landing in somewhere like Sail Away at the end of the set or something.

Interesting.

Yes, I contemplated doing acoustic versions of some of the songs.

I haven't activated that yet as part of this tour.

It'll definitely happen in the future.

Well, there was one gig when we were playing in Denver.

The weather was very bad coming over from Salt Lake City and the band and the crew couldn't get there with the gear.

We packed up some guitars and I flew over with a...

skeleton crew we rode across in an airplane and landed in Denver and we put a show on which was just me we hired a piano so I did do all the songs acoustically so there was one gig on the tour and it was great actually for songs like eyes made rain and after the harvest which really will stand up perfectly well on their own two feet with just a guitar yeah

But I sort of feel like I can represent everything on this record with just a guitar or a piano.

And that's I can't always say that.

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