TOP singer-songwriter David Gray has confirmed a Manchester show for December.

Grays biggest hits are Babylon and Sail Away, which both came from the six million-selling White Ladder album, which many thought was the Irish singer's first album but was actually his seventh.

His Manchester show will feature the hits as well as songs from the hit albums, such as 2002s A New Day At Midnight, and new release Life In Slow Motion.

In a break with prior tradition, Life In Slow Motion is the first of Gray's albums to be recorded in a "full scale studio environment as opposed to the "bedroom sized facilities favoured in the past.

Gray said: "I don't think you can remain the underdog forever and work in that way.

"I really wanted to get away from that lo-fi bedroom programming, Midi side of things. I really wanted to experiment, so a lot of the songs came out of playing as a band or messing around with sounds.

"A lot of them were just written in the standard way of me sitting at the piano or whatever.

"But it became far more about playing, and we realised this was our strong point - we can actually play!"

Now is your chance to find out.

l David Gray will play the Manchester Evening News Arena on Sunday, December 4. Tickets are £25 on 0870 190 8000.