David Gray has announced shows in Killarney and Belfast for summer 2025 as part of his upcoming Past & Present Tour which also includes shows in Dublin’s 3Arena. David Gray’s 13th album, Dear Life, will be released on January 17, 2025 featuring the single ‘Plus & Minus’.

“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,” offers Gray on the album’s lead single.

“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!”

The Past & Present Tour will commence in January 2025. Sign up for David Gray’s newsletter HERE

Irish Shows:

3ARENA DUBLIN
SATURDAY 5TH APRIL 2025 – SOLD OUT
FRIDAY 2nd MAY 2025 – LOW TICKETS
GLENEAGLE INEC ARENA KILLARNEY WEDNESDAY 27th AUGUST 2025
CUSTOM HOUSE SQUARE, BELFAST SATURDAY 30th AUGUST 2025

Tickets for Killarney and Belfast go on sale this Friday 22^nd November at 9.00am from www.ticketmaster.ie