{"id":369918,"date":"2026-03-28T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:30:16","slug":"i-didnt-have-all-my-armour-ondavid-gray-on-that-rowdy-dublin-gig-and-finding-creativity-in-his-new-quiet-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369918\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t have all my armour on\u2019:?David Gray on that rowdy Dublin gig and finding creativity in his new, quiet life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA year after a fraught night at the 3Arena left him feeling exposed, the singer talks about grief, writing music and why birdwatching in his rural retreat won\u2019t slow him down\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Gray: \u2018I guess I guard against contentment a little bit, but I\u2019ve found a balance in my life\u2019. Photo: Robin Grierson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Robin Grierson_1303.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">David Gray: \u2018I guess I guard against contentment a little bit, but I\u2019ve found a balance in my life\u2019. Photo: Robin Grierson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">David Gray has something that he would like to clear up. There had been a \u201cfebrile\u201d atmosphere at the first of the musician\u2019s two sold-out nights at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena last year; \u201ca kind of angsty, aggy feeling\u201d, as he recalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He was visibly irritated at the non-stop chatter and the continual stream of punters going to and from the bar and, as a result, his second gig a few weeks later saw the bars being closed during his set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after a fraught night at the 3Arena left him feeling exposed, the singer talks about grief,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,157993,279],"class_list":["post-369918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lauren-murphy","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}