David Gray to play two shows at The Marquee in Cork next year

Kenneth Fox

David Gray has announced a brand-new summer run of UK & Ireland dates for June–July 2026 as part of his Past & Present World Tour.

It includes two Shows for Cork on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, June 2026 – making David Gray the first Artist to announced for the 2026 Live At The Marquee series.

Tickets for Cork go on sale Friday September 5th at 10am from Ticketmaster.ie.

Artist presale begins on Tuesday September 2nd at 10am. Fans can register for presale access via David Gray’s mailing list here.

David says, “We’ve had the most amazing tour this year, from the opening night in Boston to the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, and then on to the Royal Albert Hall in London and the 3Arena in Dublin.

"These have been some of the most memorable and magical shows of my entire career.

"We’ve pushed ourselves as a band but it’s been richly rewarding and SO MUCH FUN! When everyone is in such fine form it would seem wrong to stop the ball from rolling - so with that in mind I’m delighted to announce a string of further dates for the summer of 2026. Exciting times!”

David Gray has 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 deepened — his natural ability to convey specific emotions, atmospheres, or, as heard on his acclaimed 2021 album Skellig, a sense of place, has positioned him firmly in the lineage of classic poetic singer-songwriters.