David Gray

The Cork gig felt like a sort of homecoming for David Gray as faves from White Ladder were augmented by some well-chosen covers.

Fitting as Orbital's Phil Hartnoll was Gray's brother-in-law (Hartnoll was previously married to the sister of Gray's wife Olivia), and Gray even performed on the Orbital track 'Illuminate' back in the day. In his encore, as personal pictures are projected on the jumbo screen, Gray tells us of his late father's pride as Gray played the pyramid stage of Glastonbury in June 2000, and his late father's meeting with David Bowie. The White Ladder songs are most popular though Gray sprinkles in plenty more from his repertoire for his audience. Perhaps it's fitting that David Gray comes out wearing a white suit for his Saturday night gig in Cork. "To the brave and faithful, nothing is impossible!" White Ladder is the most successful album of all time in Ireland, shifting more than 350,000 copies. And for a while on Saturday night it seems like nothing is impossible.