Hi Dave, my husband and I have only just discovered Skellig. Just a few months ago I recalled your name from my memory banks and googled you. Its our favorite album, played loud on our Focal floor standers. Is mesmerising. The other night I just watched his face as he absorbed it. White Ladder has been in my head since 2000 and I never realised it was you. I found it very hard to watch you back then. Now I know why it was disquieting. I have been playing since about 12y/o. I used to jam with my mum's non-trad folk band as a kid. I devoured the Paul Simon songbook. In 1985 I had a Tokai Strat and a Roland SH101. 1990 I went to Uni, and discovered loads more music and started playing again. I was in a Cajun band playing fiddle in 2002. And 2005 to '17 I sang and played guitar as well as fiddle, doing songs like, when you come back down Nickel Creek , in folk session sing arounds. We played Babylon ! Then I lost my ear. I thought it was menopause but after having a huge stress reaction when I realised you had become David Gray I stopped taking Montelucast , and I am "me" again. I had no idea what it was doing to me. You saved me from myself in 1985, and sort-of again in 2024. I've had a mad tangle of a life. Not laid out like a garden, there has been plenty of room for the wild. Perhaps with that though, there is no final scene to end this story. I have been revisiting my "greatest hits" , the people who wowed me all the way back to the Urban Road days. I have had so much love in my life. There are some bad things too, but if that gets too much I put all the "love" into an imaginary bliss-duvet and it warms my soul. Dave, I have a bit of you in that bliss-mix, under a willow tree one damp night, 1985, your eyes like flint on a stone.
Hi Dave , You are still Dave ! I see that now. We were under a big willow tree a damp night ,1985. we never said goodbye. Dave, how can you be David Gray now? You hardly ever made a sound. I was a (beautiful?) idiot. Now I'm a clever doctor, and just as lovely, lol 💚Did we turn into our opposite selves ? ♥ someone should sing that one💚♥
Hi Dave, my husband and I have only just discovered Skellig. Just a few months ago I recalled your name from my memory banks and googled you. Its our favorite album, played loud on our Focal floor standers. Is mesmerising. The other night I just watched his face as he absorbed it. White Ladder has been in my head since 2000 and I never realised it was you. I found it very hard to watch you back then. Now I know why it was disquieting.
I have been playing since about 12y/o. I used to jam with my mum's non-trad folk band as a kid. I devoured the Paul Simon songbook. In 1985 I had a Tokai Strat and a Roland SH101. 1990 I went to Uni, and discovered loads more music and started playing again. I was in a Cajun band playing fiddle in 2002. And 2005 to '17 I sang and played guitar as well as fiddle, doing songs like, when you come back down Nickel Creek , in folk session sing arounds. We played Babylon ! Then I lost my ear. I thought it was menopause but after having a huge stress reaction when I realised you had become David Gray I stopped taking Montelucast , and I am "me" again. I had no idea what it was doing to me.
You saved me from myself in 1985, and sort-of again in 2024. I've had a mad tangle of a life. Not laid out like a garden, there has been plenty of room for the wild. Perhaps with that though, there is no final scene to end this story. I have been revisiting my "greatest hits" , the people who wowed me all the way back to the Urban Road days. I have had so much love in my life. There are some bad things too, but if that gets too much I put all the "love" into an imaginary bliss-duvet and it warms my soul. Dave, I have a bit of you in that bliss-mix, under a willow tree one damp night, 1985, your eyes like flint on a stone.
Hi Dave ,
You are still Dave ! I see that now.
We were under a big willow tree a damp night ,1985. we never said goodbye.
Dave, how can you be David Gray now? You hardly ever made a sound.
I was a (beautiful?) idiot. Now I'm a clever doctor, and just as lovely, lol 💚Did we turn into our opposite selves ? ♥
someone should sing that one💚♥