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Speaker 1: Tickets are available through Ticke Tech for David Gray on

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Speaker 1: his Past and Present Tour November four and five at

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Speaker 1: the Riverside Theater and David is with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello there, David.

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Speaker 1: This album Dear Life, it's been a while in the

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Speaker 1: making because it was interrupted by things like oh COVID.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. The whole process was rather truncated by

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Speaker 2: a massive stop in the middle. So in the end

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Speaker 2: I think it actually enriched the creative part of the record.

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Speaker 2: I think that whatever silence came to Rain during that

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Speaker 2: strange sort of maroon time when we're all found its

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Speaker 2: way into the lyrics somehow. But there was a bit

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Speaker 2: of sort of contemplative enrichment that happened from just stopping

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Speaker 2: the world and having a good old look at what

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Speaker 2: was there. So it's got something a bit extra I

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Speaker 2: think this record as a result.

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Speaker 3: But on this tour are we going to hear quite

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Speaker 3: a bit of the album because some beautiful things on there.

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Speaker 4: The song will Tellier Ray is just a gym amongst others.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Well, we're using quite a lot of

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Speaker 2: the record live on the tour, but mixed in with

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Speaker 2: these songs are big enough to stand up for themselves.

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Speaker 2: So they're in amongst all the big old songs, the

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Speaker 2: Babylons and sailor Ways and what have you. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been a real great mix so far. We've had

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Speaker 2: a fantastic tour since we started in January. We're also

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Speaker 2: kind of deep diving into some of the back catalog

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Speaker 2: in quite a significant way. To We've played nearly seventy

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Speaker 2: songs on the floor so fast, so it's it's a

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Speaker 2: bit of an epic it's an epic show. We've got

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Speaker 2: to try and cram it all in few old and

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Speaker 2: the neglected fruits of the past. So yeah, exactly two hours,

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Speaker 2: maybe fifteen, two hours twenty each night. It's a long gig.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, there's a few songs you wouldn't get

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Speaker 1: out of live if you didn't do I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean Babylon. I'd barricade the doors if you didn't do Babylon.

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Speaker 4: Davey, what is it about that song?

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Speaker 1: That is my I was on a road trip just

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Speaker 1: the other day and I think I played it three

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Speaker 1: times during the three hour course of the trip because

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Speaker 1: it's just it's one of the most beautiful melodic songs

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Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 2: It's it's an uplifting kind of tune, and it's hard

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Speaker 2: to write something that lifts you up without being kind

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Speaker 2: of corny. One the toughest one to find. But there

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Speaker 2: was something about that track that just obviously did it.

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Speaker 2: Really it clicked. It sounds just just enough sweetness and

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Speaker 2: just enough kind of interest to keep it interesting. So

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Speaker 2: it's not too sweet, you know. So, Yeah, it has

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Speaker 2: an atmosphere, but it has an energy to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the crowd love it. Somethously got a very big chorus

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Speaker 2: that gets me singing, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you because it is a beautiful son.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you have the ability to lift us up.

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Speaker 3: Note in so many ways, every of those love songs

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Speaker 3: another one I love and this is love without the corn.

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Speaker 3: You avoid the corn quite a skill.

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Speaker 2: It occasionally creeps in there. It's waiting for every song.

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Speaker 2: Try and I try not to lash it onto.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes one man's corn is another man's not.

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Speaker 4: There's the line exactly exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, David, you said that you've really enjoyed the tour

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Speaker 3: so far, and I'm loving some of your little reviews

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Speaker 3: of some of your own you know, the crowds and

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Speaker 3: that on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: Lightly but the Royal or Albert Hall.

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Speaker 3: What is that like with a full horn section? As

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Speaker 3: a musician as you are, that must be a joy.

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Speaker 2: That was an amazing gig. I mean, I've played the

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Speaker 2: Royal album all before, but never like this. It's just

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Speaker 2: some nights, I don't know. Everyone was in the mood.

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Speaker 2: We had a full horn section. We decided to treat

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Speaker 2: ourselves with some amazing arrangements from the new record, and

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Speaker 2: we wanted to actually get the actual horn players who

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Speaker 2: played on the record play with us. So that was

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Speaker 2: such a treat. But the audience were incredible. We sold

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Speaker 2: the choir stores, so we had people all around us.

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Speaker 2: It was a three sixty experience. For me. It's a

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Speaker 2: great immersive experience. But they it looked amazing in there,

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Speaker 2: It sounded amazing, and everyone just went nut. You know.

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Speaker 2: It was the best of both worlds. They listened when

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Speaker 2: it went quiet, they really tuned in, dialed in, focused,

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Speaker 2: and then were absolutely crazy when the big songs came.

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Speaker 2: So we had one of the best gigs of the tour,

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Speaker 2: best gigs ever. Really was it lived forever in the memory.

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Speaker 1: That one you are about to kick off the European

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Speaker 1: leg of the tour this week. Where in Europe outside

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Speaker 1: of the UK do you find the fans do go

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Speaker 1: the maddest for you very.

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Speaker 2: Obviously Ireland i'd say had head and shoulders above everywhere else.

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Speaker 2: They're pretty mad for it over there. So we've got

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Speaker 2: a string of Irish shows coming up and then some

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Speaker 2: more later in the year. But they'll always be lively.

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Speaker 2: We've done a couple already and they were they were

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Speaker 2: pretty full on. Yeah, I've got I've got another Dublin

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Speaker 2: this week, the Limerick and Outdoors in Limerick in May.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like you're going to get very wet, but

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Speaker 2: actually I think the weather in a kind so and

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Speaker 2: we've done We've done Belgium, Holland and we went up

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Speaker 2: to Copenhagen as well. We just then Mark. We've been

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Speaker 2: kind of going around the place. We've had an amazing reaction.

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Speaker 2: I mean in Europe, I don't get over there as much.

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Speaker 2: So it's always got a special atmosphere because I just

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Speaker 2: think people take it for grants in the same way,

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Speaker 2: and they take the gig very seriously. It's like you've

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Speaker 2: actually turned up. They really dial in. I'm always coming

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Speaker 2: through Dublin and London but over there not so much.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're certainly busy mat but when you finally get

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Speaker 3: a spell and get a bit of time at time,

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Speaker 3: what do you do you do? Jams or pickling or something,

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Speaker 3: and what else are you up to when you when

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Speaker 3: you get home.

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Speaker 2: I have I have my traditional jam making family tradition.

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Speaker 2: I'm holding I'm you know, from my grandparents. I'm keeping

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Speaker 2: that one going in the autumn, I will make BlackBerry

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Speaker 2: jelly definitely lovely. Yeah, I'm like, I've had my first

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Speaker 2: sea swims of the year, so my seams and stretches

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Speaker 2: from from well, I actually went in March, but it's

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Speaker 2: normally April for the end of October, that would be

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Speaker 2: my sea swimming. So I like to get on the

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Speaker 4: Ocean and it makes you feel alive.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. After that first couple of

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Speaker 2: minutes of sheer panic that you think you're going to

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Speaker 2: have about half a se then then when when when

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Speaker 2: the engine kicks in and the whole body starts, that's

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Speaker 2: the central heating up. It's it's just incredible, it is amazing.

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Speaker 2: For that's how I am winded but I love nature.

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Speaker 2: I like to get down to the coast and get

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Speaker 2: onto the beach and whatever. So and so that's basically

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Speaker 2: what I'll be up to. I'm actually going to be

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Speaker 2: when I come off the road. I'm actually going back

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Speaker 2: in the studio, if I'm completely honest, because I've I've

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Speaker 2: got another sort of records to finish that I started

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Speaker 2: before COVID. So your life is chapter one.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're in Perth in November, so that's good beach

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Speaker 1: weather here and of course we you know, we have

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Speaker 1: a we have a nice beach or.

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Speaker 2: Two David got yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been around.

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Speaker 2: I've done a couple of them now, so I'll definitely

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Speaker 2: be going in if if we've got a couple of days,

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Speaker 2: I'll definitely be jumping in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, especially when you get it and there's nice and warm, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Riverside Theater there are two shows. November four

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Speaker 1: is almost sold out, so the November five show was

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Speaker 1: recently added and you can get your tickets through ticket Tech.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to having you in town again, David.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we had a great time last time. The

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Speaker 2: Australian Tour and three nights of Marry my and Jollity.

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Speaker 2: With a very cold south wind that was blowing up seasonably,

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Speaker 2: it didn't dampen the spirits that was that was drowing

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Speaker 2: the White lad I say, last time we were there anyway,

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Speaker 2: were safely packed up, tucked up indoors. Yea, I think

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Speaker 2: it would be amazing. So this tour is going to

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Speaker 2: be a good one.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not quite as rowdy as the Dublin crowd, but

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Speaker 3: you've to put the Suffles in as well.

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Speaker 4: We'll have a crack crack crack, looking forward to hearing

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Speaker 2: Voice all right by okay,