David Gray finished off his US tour for his recent album Life in Slow Motion with a packed show at the Gibson Ampitheater. Actually first saw him play in college, when he certainly wasn’t so big, since his first album A Century Ends was released in 1993. Took my girlfriend who only knew 2 of his songs, and I am pretty sure she enjoyed it too, Gray is such a talented live performer and so is his entire band.

We got to the show as the lights dimmed and the opening band came on. A talented band with a lead singer on piano from England. Their name is Aqualung, and it wasn’t till they played their closing song Brighter than Sunshine that I realized that i had heard them before. A great opening band, and good way to start the night.

Then David gray and his band out, all dressed in suites except his crazy drummer in a Hawaiian shirt (the one who was in the video for PLEASE FORGIVE ME). Also is a second piano player, who also plays guitar when Gray is on Piano (and they switch in single songs many times), a Chello player, a guitar player and bass player who also switched to other instruments and what looked like a theramin. It was an amazing set, and not just focused on the new album, though mostly on later albums from White Ladder and A New Day at Midnight, but Gray opened his encore with one of my favorites, Shine from A CENTURY ENDS with just him on Acoustic Guitar, and he did a cover of a song I didn’t recognize, then did an extended version of Babylon with a nice Jam in the middle and ended with a cover of the Cure’s Friday I’m In love from their album Wish.

An amazing show, and I can’t wait to see him again! And he is young (something like 37 or 38 now) so he has many albums to go at this point!