Nearly a decade after his fourth album, "White Ladder," made him a star and unwitting inspiration for a generation of hand-wringing British troubadours, David Gray returns with his eighth studio album, "Draw the Line." The self-produced set includes powerful...
Regular Ear Candy readers should know by now that Brittney Bush Bollay takes excellent pictures. See that photo of David Gray below? That was shot by Mrs. Bush Bollay. Since it's a given her pictures are great it should make sense her words read well too. Want proof? Read her review of David Gray's concert at the Paramount Theatre. After reading her review you can check out more of her photos from...
Take Care Now to be replaced in east Cambridgeshire amid new safety concerns over shifts The private company that hired a foreign doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift as a locum has had an NHS contract terminated early due to new safety concerns, the Guardian can reveal. Checks on Take Care Now by the national NHS safety watchdog and the NHS in Cambridgeshire have added to...
SCOUTING for Girls ( pictured ), Marina & The Diamonds, Egyptian Hip Hop, Daisy Dares You, Stornoway and Lisa Mitchell have all been added to the line-up for this year’s Mencap’s Little Noise Sessions (2009). Tickets for the acclaimed sessions – which take place between November 16 and 24 – are now on general sale at www.littlenoisesessions.org.uk All gigs take place at...
Luke Haines - mastermind behind The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder and a number of solo projects. A misfit, an outcast, a social commentator, a man who brushed with fame but lost it. Haines has in the past come across as one of the most arrogant but also absurdly loveable songwriters the UK has ever produced. If you haven’t read his book Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfal l and have even...
Cor blimey just happened upon this - David Gray singing Draw The Line live on GMTV couple of months ago. Beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/user/therealdavidgray'blend=1&ob=4#p/a/f/0/dKiv41BafWM
( David Gray / ABC ) That above is Morena Baccarin, the alien leader, Anna, in “ V ,” a series on ABC. So? Her slogan is: "We are of peace. Always." Well, I read these reviews and somehow, I was reminded of the situation in a United States run by an administration headed by someone named Obama and could turn out to be a future documentary called "O". Combined from here...
Draw The Line is the warm, fresh, organic sound of David Gray in a new, revitalised light. His eighth studio album and the follow up to the amazingly successful White Ladder, Draw The Line features 11 new recordings, including the lead single, “Fugitive”. Here’s the lead single – Fugitive.. Must admit, I really do enjoy his music – Best I head off and buy the album :)...
If I were king for a day and that day was today, I'd probably have Lisa Hannigan pop by the radio station and give this valley a little performance. I'd maybe manage to slip into the concert she's doing later tonight, that one where she's opening up for David Gray at Kingsbury (managing to slip out before David does a single head wobble bounce). And maybe, since I was king and all, maybe I'd talk her...
For the first time in almost 20 years, the police involved in the Aramoana shooting tragedy have revealed who pulled the trigger to end the killing spree of gunman David Gray.After killing 13 people in the small Otago town on...
The smoke grenades went in. Aramoana shooter David Gray came out. Four black-clad cops gunned him down. Ask them if they were scared and they will deny it. Ask them if they felt like heroes and they'll say they were just doing their...
"A worker dries shirts bearing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama's face over that of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong at a shirt printing factory located on the outskirts of Beijing October 30, 2009." REUTERS/David Gray
“The National Security Archive has requested information held by the U.S. government about the use of music by the following bands and recording artists during the detention and interrogation of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US facilities. The names come from declassified and published reports on the treatment of detainees, as well as interviews with former detainees and guards. AC/DC Aerosmith...
While David Gray is an incredibly prolific songwriter with a mammoth European following and eight records to his credit, he is still remembered best in the U.S. for "Babylon," the ubiquitous-in-1999 single that broke him to a larger audience internationally.