David Gray - Time of Your Life Part One

Multi-million selling artist David Gray will be taking a trip down memory lane in a new series 'Time of your Life'.

The singer-songwriter moved from Manchester to Lower Solva when he was eight, spending his formative schooldays at Solva Community School and later Ysgol Dewi Sant in St Davids.

The episode follows him as he visits Solva Community School as well as favourite old haunts in the village and on the coast. He also indulges his love of the sea in a Voyage of Discovery boat trip.

Gray, 42, a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter whose hits include 'This Year's Love', 'Babylon', and 'Sail Away', has previously described the thrill of moving to Pembrokeshire.

He said: "I remember like yesterday the day we moved from Manchester to a tiny cottage tucked under a hill in Lower Solva. There was a picturesque fishing harbour outside the door, a bluebell wood behind: I was eight, and I thought, 'This is Action Man heaven.'

"My friend Jonathan had a 15hp dinghy; we'd catch mackerel and cook it on the beach, and swim with Simo, the Solva dolphin, which sort of befriended us. It was a wonderful, free life.

"These days, I like to walk there round the headland from St Justinian, where the trip boats depart for the seal colonies on Ramsey Island. I love it in May, with wild flowers piling over the cliff edge, that glittering Pembrokeshire light and the air infused with the scent of spring."

The episode was filmed in the autumn, and Associate Producer Alun Jones said Gray enjoyed his trip back home.

"The village has obviously changed a lot since David was a boy but that didn't seem to matter one bit, the countryside, the sea, the wildlife and the people are what made this his home and in that sense it was like he had never been away," he said.

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[raymond052367]

Wow,, amazing to see where it all began.......

[thingsXXchange]

Thank you so much for posting this.

It's refreshing to see an artist with such wholesome roots.

His music still reflects these roots to this day and I absolutely love him for it.