WHY IS DAVID GRAY SO POPULAR IN IRELAND?
How did David Gray turn from playing pubs and clubs sized holding around 200 people, to playing the largest indoor concert arena in Ireland, holding 8000 people in just one year, despite hardly any genuine radio-play, and despite an organised marketing campaign? It’s not just luck – David Gray’s association with Ireland goes back to his first album, and one of the singles of it, Shine. It was played on an Irish TV music show, No Disco, by DJ Donal Dineen, and thereafter he was inundated with requests to play this unheard of artist some more. Sensing a popular singer, Donal invited David to Dublin to play in Whelans, a popular music venue for up and coming Irish musicians. The first gig (David was treated to an Irish roar on stage, courtesy of poet Pat Ingoldsby) led to a second, and a tour and quickly, he built up a steady, reliable, fanatical following in all parts of Ireland. Two more albums followed, which included tours in America and Europe, but even though the UK was slow to resp
