How to go
WHO: David Gray with special guests Amos Lee and Rachael Yamagata
WHERE: Rose Music Center, 6800 Executive Blvd., Huber Heights
WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Doors open at 6 p.m.
COST: $49-$72
MORE INFO: 937-228-2323 or www.ticketmaster.com
ARTIST INFO: www.davidgray.com
British acoustic pop singer David Gray will be performing at The Rose Music Center in Huber Heights on Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m. with Amos Lee.
In a recent phone conversation, Gray spoke with our news partner Dayton Daily News, touching on topics that included aging, finding a balance in his life and entering a new era in his career.
On Getting older
“It’s a period of reckoning isn’t it, the middle of your life? The youthful momentum is gone. Responsibilities wear you down and the clarity of age is not yet yours, so there’s a lot of internal negotiating and clutching at straws as you try to make sense of life. Family, mortgages and everything you get caught up in, you muddle through it like everything and try to make the most of it. It’s been an intense period, the last 15 years or so, but I’m in a good place.”
On Finding balance
“Making music is something that makes sense within itself. I feel very enriched and very lucky to be doing the things I love to do. I don’t take that for granted for a moment. That becomes more precious to me as I go on but my works is such an indulgence that it confuses and blurs the lines. I spend a lot of time working and a lot time doing family stuff so I need to take more time out for myself. That’s where you need a bit of balance in your life.”
On New era
“In a creative sense, there were some voyages of discovery, major and minor, I had to take to get ‘Mutineers’ made. I challenged myself, and I found other ways of making and doing. I challenged the assumptions I once had about writing songs and about how best to do it. I had to confront a lot to get the record done so to come out the other side affected by that was very significant. It’s left me a changed person.”
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