Birmingham gig promotes new David Gray album
Piano and guitar man David Gray is returning after a near-five-year recording hiatus with a new record and tour that will stop off in Birmingham.
Gold In A Brass Age - his first album of new material since 2014's Mutineers - has a 17-date UK tour lined up including a show at the Second City's Symphony Hall on March 29.
The album will be available on March 8 through IHT Records / AWAL Recordings, with first single The Sapling out now.
Gray says that Gold In A Brass Age finds him in renewed creative form, and fans will be hoping for new material like his timeless hits This Year's Love, Babylon and The One I Love.
He added: “With this album, my default position was to do everything differently. I didn’t think ‘this would be a good hook' or ‘these lyrics could work for a chorus’. I was keen to get away from narrative. Instead of writing melodies, I looked for phrases with a natural cadence, so that the rhythm began with the words."
It was written in breaks between several month-long tour stints - which included a US co-headline run of shows with Alison Krauss.
Gold In A Brass Age will be Gray’s 11th album since 1993 debut A Century Ends in a career that spans more than 25 years, several Brit and Grammy nominations, and three No.1 UK albums, including the multi-platinum White Ladder in 1998.
Tickets for the Symphony Hall show are nearly sold out with the remainder available here.
