David Gray has announced a Belfast date as part of his 2025 Past & Present world tour.
The British singer-songwriter will headline at Custom House Square on August 30.
Having released his debut album in 1993, Gray received worldwide attention with White Ladder five years later, particularly for the hit single “Babylon”.
The tour will follow the release of Gray’s highly anticipated new album, Dear Life, set to be released on January 17, 2025, through his independent label Laugh A Minute Records, in partnership with Secretly Distribution.
The album is being released in alongside his new single ‘Plus & Minus’.
Speaking about his new album, Gray said: “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.”
A statement said: “David Gray’s story is unlike any other. He spent almost a decade striving to make a breakthrough, and when it happened it did so in the biggest way imaginable as White Ladder became one of the best-selling British albums of recent decades and established him as an arena-filling artist.
“As the years have passed, his songcraft has only been deepened by his natural ability to convey specific emotions, atmospheres or, as heard on his acclaimed 2021 album Skellig, a perception of place – all positioning him in the lineage of classic poetic singer-songwriters rather than lovestruck acoustic troubadours.”
Tickets will go on sale this Friday at 9am.