Bitter Pill Gavin James

• 1 Bitter Pill 03:59
• 2 For You 03:02
• 3 Nervous 03:36
• 4 Remember Me 03:56
• 5 Coming Home 03:55
• 6 I Don't Know Why 03:59
• 7 22 03:40
• 8 Ghost 04:08
• 9 Hole In My Heart 03:03
• 10 Say Hello 03:14
• 11 Two Hearts 03:58
• 12 Till The Sun Comes Up 03:56
• 13 The Book of Love 02:57
• Total Runtime 47:23

Info for Bitter Pill

Produced by Fraser T Smith (Adele/Lily Allen/Britney Spears), Cameron Blackwood (Florence & the Machine) and recorded in L.A. and London and features the massive hits ‘Say Hello’, ‘The Book of Love’, ‘For You’ and the current single ‘Bitter Pill’.

In 2015 Gavin’s Live at Whelans album charted at #1 in Ireland. His debut studio album ‘Bitter Pill’ is registered as Platinum in Ireland and he has 10 million views across VEVO, YouTube and Facebook. Gavin has supported Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Kodaline, Tori Kelly and has toured twice with Sam Smith in North America. Gavin has also been announced as ‘International Breakthrough Act of the Year’ by XFM.

BBC Radio 1 Greg James - 'Last week on this show, we played a track by a man called Gavin James! It got a huge reaction, ridiculous reaction from people, so I thought we'd play it again. From Dublin, supporting Sam Smith on tour, discovered by Ed Sheeran. This is gonna be huge, this track and this guy”.

'A soulful songwriter sure to make you feel less alone” Noisey
“It’s the young Irishman’s flair for songwriting, paired with his unparalleled vocal ability, that has marked Gavin James out as a star on the continual rise” Hunger “Tender, emotional…no mean talent” Clash
'Heartfelt and utterly sincere pop' The Line of Best Fit
'Understated and blissful” Shortlist

Gavin James
On his way to becoming one of 2016’s international crossover-stories, Gavin James was born in Ashington, a suburb on the northside of Dublin. The 23-year-old son of a postman, music was arguably in James’ blood: his great grandparents were both famous Irish Opera singers and had their own albums released in the early 1900s (they had to turn down an invitation to perform in London owing to their families, and the political conditions of the time). Having started out playing Jimi Hendrix covers in the garden shed, Gavin then drew the short straw when he was chosen as the singer of his teenage band, and learnt his subsequent solo craft the hard way. Inspired by local heroes like Damien Rice and classic, grafting Soul artists such as Sam Cooke, he would play Dublin’s pubs virtually 7 nights a week during college, in a marathon of 3-hour shows.

Growing in confidence, Gavin James’ own material then began to draw an impassioned following: his first ever single won Ireland’s answer to the Mercury (the Choice Prize for ‘Song Of The Year’), stayed on the charts for over 6 months and culminated with 2014’s #1-charting, ‘Live at Whelans’ album: a venue he used to sneak inside when underage, but returned to as a rapturously-received headliner. That night, he happened to perform an impulsive cover of The Magnetic Fields’ ‘The Book Of Love’, accelerating Gavin’s word-of-mouth success story (the track has since become a platinum-selling hit around Europe, with upwards of 6 million plays on Spotify).

With his first piece of recorded material – ‘For You’ – reaching number 1 in Ireland and going top 10 on iTunes in the US, Canada and Holland, Gavin James has inched closer to the spotlight with an appearance on ‘The Late Late Show With James Corden’. Continuing with ‘22’, lifted from sessions from his debut album, Gavin James looks poised to become the next great voice to shine a light back on the Dublin suburbs (and beyond).

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