David Gray: From his first gig in Cork to climbing to the top
Thirty years on from David Gray’s original release of White Ladder, traces the slow-burn success of Ireland’s best-selling album back to gigs at Nancy Spains in Cork and a push by RTÉ show No Disco.
ONE evening in 1992 — the precise date is so obscure nobody can quite place it — a scrawny 24-year-old with close-cropped hair shuffled on stage in Cork and picked up a guitar. He performed to a hushed audience, though the silence may have had something to do with the fact that there were at most 20 in attendance.
