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 👇
The Darkness
Legends of rock, The Darkness are pleased to announce a return to Belfast with a headline show at Custom House Square with special guests ASH and Bad Nerves on Saturday 09th August 2025.
More than 20 years after The Darkness exploded with the big bang that changed the face of British rock music, their cheeky, spandex-clad anthems continue to capture hearts, and a new generation of fans, around the world.
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers are proud to announce the line-up for their seventh annual hometown festival, Putting the Fast in Belfast 7.
This year, they'll be joined on Saturday, August 16th by their friends and very special guests Public Image Ltd, Sham 69, Cherym, and DJ Terri Hooley.
Texas
Following on from their critically acclaimed sold-out UK arena tour, Texas will be bringing their popular, crowd loving live show to Custom House Square, Belfast next summer.
Fronted by Sharleen Spiteri, Texas will showcase five decades of music from the worldwide classic I Don't Want A Lover to the modern-day hits of Mr Haze and Keep on Talking when they headline Custom House Square on Sunday 17th August.
Amble
After a triumphant run of sold-out shows in 2024, including headlining three nights at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre, folk trio Amble will headline Belfast's CHSQ.
The EP's title track has already drawn attention for its emotionally charged lyrics and haunting melodies.
On performing live, the band said, "Nothing compares to being on stage and connecting with our fans through the stories we tell in our music. This year has been incredible for us, but it feels like it will be even bigger next year."
Marti Pellow
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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.
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