David Gray to headline CHSq 2025 on his Past & Present world tour
Tickets go on sale this week 🎟️
David Gray is pleased to announce a headline show at Custom House Square, Belfast as part of his Past & Present World Tour.
📍 SATURDAY 30th AUGUST 2025
David Gray’s story is unlike any other. He spent almost a decade striving to make a breakthrough, and when it happened it did so in the biggest way imaginable as White Ladder became one of the best-selling British albums of recent decades and established him as an arena-filling artist.
As the years have passed, his songcraft has only been deepened by his natural ability to convey specific emotions, atmospheres or, as heard on his acclaimed 2021 album Skellig, a perception of place - all positioning him in the lineage of classic poetic singer-songwriters rather than lovestruck acoustic troubadours. While the likes of Ed Sheeran, Adele and Hozier have acknowledged his influence, David has continued to follow his own artistic path.
Dear Life is Gray’s thirteenth album. It’s the result of “a starburst of songwriting … it just seemed like the gods of songwriting were being kind. The doubting voices didn't turn up.” An album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. While it is full of yearning and hope, there is an undercurrent of darkness, a tension between competing forces of hope and despair: a cavalcade of emotions in what is his most lyrically-focused collection to-date.
How to get tickets:
Tickets on sale Friday November 22nd at 9am via www.ticketmaster.ie
Check out the other headliners for CHSq 2025 👇
Billy Gillies
Following his two sold out CHSq 2024 shows last August, Trance superstar Billy Gillies returns for another headline show at Custom House Square on Friday August 29th 2025, with support from EADZO.
Billy Gillies is the latest superstar trance artist to emerge from Northern Ireland.
David Gray
David Gray is pleased to announce a headline show at Custom House Square, Belfast as part of his Past & Present World Tour.
David Gray's story is unlike any other. He spent almost a decade striving to make a breakthrough, and when it happened it did so in the biggest way imaginable as White Ladder became one of the best-selling British albums of recent decades and established him as an arena-filling artist.
Nile Rodgers & Chic
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist, Nile Rodgers is pleased to announce a return to Belfast with a headline show this summer.
Midland
Double Grammy® nominees Midland are pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at Custom House Square on Friday 5th September 2025.
Midland have sought to reintroduce the Western plains, Laurel Canyon-cum-Bakersfield and Lone Star juke joints to Country music since coming together at a friend's wedding over common influences and the need for a return to this sort of post-Urban Cowboy Country.
Chase & Status
One of the most successful British bands of the last decade Chase & Status have announced a headline show in Belfast!
Celebrating over 17 years in the game, Chase and Status are a leading talent in the UK Electronic scene.
They were the first UK Electronic act to headline the 02 arena, have had over 2 Billion streams, 2.6 million album sales, sold millions of tickets worldwide, are Brit Nominated for Best Group, have headlined Glastonbury on the Other Stage, headlined Reading & Leeds and have collaborated with the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Kano, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Major Lazer, Nile Rogers, Slaves and many more.
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