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David Gray

June 2026

  • David Gray

    Honest playlist
    ‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

    The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso?

June 2025

  • Brian Wilson sits at the piano

    ‘The joy shot out of his voice’: Ray Davies, Graham Nash and others on Brian Wilson’s songwriting genius

    With the innocence of a child and the vision of a god, his craft was astonishing. From Jessica Pratt to Jim James and ​Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil, top musicians explain why he was like no other

November 2024

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S8, E10: David Gray, musician

    The multi-platinum selling musician David Gray joins Grace his week on Comfort Eating
    Podcast40:31

February 2020

  • ‘The hairs on my neck stood on end’ … David Gray.

    How we made
    'Financially, I was a mess': David Gray on making 90s classic White Ladder

  • Madonna, Martin Scorcese and David Gray.

    Musical notes
    Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop

March 2019

  • Dido and David Grey

    David Gray or Dido: which artist is best to make moussaka to?

    Two of the biggest-selling artists of the early aughts are back! Time to find out once and for all who’s best

February 2016

  • Ends of the scale … Elliott Smith and Ed Sheeran.

    From Elliott Smith to Ed Sheeran: how acoustic introverts became stars

    The soundtrack to Elliott Smith’s Heaven Adores You is released today - illuminating an artist at odds with the new wave of confident singer-songwriters. Is it the end of the introspective male tradition that gave voice to our insecurities?

October 2015

  • ewan maccoll peggy seeger

    Various Artists: Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl review – an engrossing portrait

    This centenary collection of Ewan MacColl covers serves brilliantly to show off his songwriting skills

October 2014

  • nick cave

    Live music booking now
    Live music booking now

    Nick Cave | The War On Drugs | Common | Jake Bugg | David Gray

August 2014

  • After a hectic summer of festivals, Elbow will headline their own iTunes gig.

    Elbow, Paolo Nutini and Rudimental sign up for Apple's iTunes Festival

    Artists join Kylie Minogue, David Guetta, Beck and Sam Smith on line-up for September event in London. By Stuart Dredge

June 2014

  • David Gray

    David Gray: Mutineers review – a timeworn quality that's charismatic

  • The Guardian’s World Cup national anthem pop star review panel

    Every 2014 World Cup national anthem reviewed by a pop star!

February 2014

  • David Gray performs Cake at Other Voices Festival 2013

    David Gray performs Cake at Other Voices Festival 2013 - video

    David Gray performs Cake at Other Voices Festival 2013 - video

December 2013

  • Other Voices 2013 – review

    John Grant and Lulu James move and shake respectively at the tiniest fest in the west, writes Nadia Khomami

  • Other Voices 2013 David Gray

    Other Voices Dingle 2013: David Gray and Hozier at Ireland's most magical music festival - video

    The first report from Other Voices in Dingle 2013

  • Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai

    Other Voices festival in Dingle: watch the livestream

    See John Grant, Mogwai, David Arnold, David Gray, Patty Griffin, Agnes Obel and others perform intimate sets from 6-8 December on Guardian music

November 2013

  • Mogwai

    Other Voices 2013: the final festival lineup revealed

    Headliners Patty Griffin, Mogwai and John Grant joined by the likes of Lulu James, Asgeir and David Gray

November 2011

  • Tim Buckley

    Song to the Siren's irresistible tang

    Its writer refused to record it. Pat Boone almost killed it. Then it was resurrected as a B-side to an indie prestige project. Martin Aston on how Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren became a modern classic

October 2011

  • Kaiser Chiefs

    When bands fall off cliffs

    You sell a couple million albums. You're adored. Then 90% of your fanbase deserts you – and your record label isn't far behind. Rob Fitzpatrick investigates band collapse syndrome

May 2011

  • David Gray – review

    As long as David Gray gives his still-sizable following a bit of what they want, he can do as he pleases on stage, where his untamed bellow and offbeat humour has space to roam, writes Dave Simpson

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