When was white ladder released

An object lesson to all of us that perseverance can pay off in the end. Full details of the reissue and the tour follow:. The 7 million record selling and one of the greatest and most heart-warming word-of-mouth successes in music, White Ladder will be performed by Gray with all the original band members and with all the original equipment to recreate the record in its entirety, plus a set of the greatest hits. Tickets for the tour will go on sale at 9am on Friday October 11th. Fans can have access to presale tickets on Wednesday October 9th by pre-ordering products from the remastered collection her e: www.

This will include a special remastered edition of the iconic album plus White Ladder era previously unreleased rarities, B-sides and demos.

Physical versions will be accompanied by an extensive booklet with writings by Gray about the whole White Ladder experience - from the people involved, to the stories behind the songs and memorable shows. Exclusive collaboration with Vinyl Me Please coming soon.

White Ladder was born of difficult circumstances. Gray had been struggling on the margins for a decade, a lonely figure with an acoustic guitar swimming against the tide of Britpop, grunge, hip hop and electro. With three albums to his name, he found himself advertised at a gig third on the bill to beer and a barbecue.

Can you write a better song? Self-released at first on his own kitchen sink label, White Ladder slowly very, very slowly found an audience. It took a year to creep into the lower reaches of the British charts, then worked its way all the way up to number one. It remains in the top 30 best-selling British albums of all time and the best-selling album ever in Ireland a nation who know a good song when they hear it. Its success spawned a new wave of singer-songwriters in an acoustic boom that resonates to this day, a soul-baring lineage that can be directly traced from David Gray to the all-conquering Ed Sheeran.

White Ladder remains an album of great depth and startling beauty, a superlative collection of emotional songs capturing a very special moment in time, as raw and immediate as when it was recorded. I was sort of hoisted by my own petard for that particular show as they only played one song from an existing record, and the other 15 songs were all new.

I played it to [musical collaborator] Klune, and he knew exactly what to do. He doubled up the time, so it was a fast song, and then he slowed the chord change.

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Puzzles hub. Visit our brain gym where you will find simple and cryptic crosswords, sudoku puzzles and much more. Updated at midnight every day. We would love to hear your feedback on the section right HERE. We could feel that there was a magic there as we had seen it working elsewhere. That was a very romantic, wild west version of putting out a record. There was a point just before Christmas when Rob Holden, my manager, his hall was completely full with CDs, thousands and thousands of them.

I had to load up my Volkswagen Golf and take them to a freight airport to get them to Ireland for Christmas. My car was loaded with about 2, CDs; it was scraping along the ground!

That added to the wonderful romance of the whole thing. We were touring America when it started to bubble up the charts, and when we got back from flying around the world with no money, we came back and we were booked as the first band on the first day on the main stage at T in the Park festival.

Thousands of Scottish people running at us with banners who I thought would run straight past us to the bar, but they actually stopped and stayed. That was a defining moment where I thought, my god, this is actually happening. My heart and soul goes into the flow of the record. If there is a single, that makes a huge difference, but I think people who buy my music do so to listen to it in a broader way. My obsession is moving forward and keeping the connection alive, between me and my music and then hopefully have wonderful people to listen to the music — music means nothing unless you have people to listen to it.

That seemed like an interesting route at one point, but it really just means that I own the rights to my music. In terms of that creative equation, I could see how I could bring a lot of experience for younger artists.

It is something I would be very interested in, to collaborate on a production or creative level.