"charge, while the digital version of the EP became available for purchase on Wheat's website that same month. Gary Lightbody, lead singer for Snow Patrol, is a self-proclaimed fan of Wheat, typically listing their albums on any of his top music lists, including his 2007 ""best of"" blog post on the band's MySpace page. Albums EPs Singles Label Samplers Music Video Game Wheat (band) Wheat is an American indie-rock band formed by Scott Levesque (vocals, guitar), Brendan Harney (drums, vocals), Ricky Brennan Jr. (guitar, vocals), and Kenny Madaras (bass) in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1996. Wheat's debut album, ""Medeiros"", released in"
"previously wrote for ""The Irish Times"" music section as guest-editor. As an impassioned music fan and DJ, he recommends in his blogs or essays albums and artists of different and wide-ranging genres of music. In May 2009, Lightbody commenced writing his music column, ""Gary Lightbody's Band of the Week"", in the magazine ""Q The Music.com"". In 2011, he wrote as an essayist for ""The Huffington Post"". As a songwriter/bandleader, he has written songs and lyrics for a wide variety of artists and genres. In 2000, he formed the Scottish supergroup The Reindeer Section, comprising 47 musicians from 20 different bands,"
"on 30 March 2012. The video shows Gary Lightbody, the band's frontman sitting at a bar, lonely and looking upset, while having drink after drink. ""Ignoring all the dancing and smiling faces around him, the frontman stares into space. His lip-synching is even half-hearted, as he's lost in thought about a relationship that didn’t work out...The emotional video is simple but powerful."" New York (Snow Patrol song) ""New York"" is a song by Northern Irish alternative rock group Snow Patrol. The track is the third single from the band's sixth studio album, ""Fallen Empires"". It was released as a digital"
"by ""Crack the Shutters"". At the time of the release of the album, SP.com posted a section featuring lead singer and lyricist Gary Lightbody discussing the new songs, which was initially a Lightbody interview to RTÉ. About ""Take Back the City"", he said that though the song was inspired by Belfast and Northern Ireland in general, it applied to every other city and the relationship its inhabitants have with it. He said that it's ""about the reasons why I grew up confused by my country and the reasons now why I love it so"". Lightbody, who grew up in Belfast"
"September 2008. The band invited fans in the age bracket of 18–35 to be a part of the video as extras. Interested people were required to email their details and photograph to the production company Partizan. The ones chosen were utilized for the pub scene, and scenes were shot on 11 August 2008 after midnight. The video was described by ""RockTog"" magazine as a ""fast paced, headache inducing visual spectacle"", but it criticized it for featuring lead singer Gary Lightbody over the other band members. The video is stop-motion shots of London skyscrapers and Gary Lightbody walking through the city"
"Simon directed the music video. The music video, centered around a video shoot, sees Gary Lightbody (as stand-in), amongst dancers and the singer portrayed by Davenport, make a nuisance of himself on the set of the shoot. Lightbody tries hard to take part in the video and Tara Summers (director) precludes him from doing so. By the end of the video, the dancers are down to their underwear and Lightbody has grabbed a hold of the camera as it cranes out. Called Out in the Dark ""Called Out in the Dark"" is a song by Northern Irish rock band Snow"
"and sang lead female vocals on ""Set the Fire to the Third Bar"", which originally featured Martha Wainwright. On 9 March, Gary Lightbody & Nathan Connolly appeared as guests in Iain Archer's set at the Ulster Hall, Belfast, which was hosting ""Do You Remember the First Time?"" a one-off event by BBC Across The Line. Lightbody wrote a blog about the other artists that appeared at the event later. The last show of the tour had the band's friends & family and the Northern Irish Football squad in the 9,000 strong audience. The band played to an estimated 200,000 fans"
"as they would have subsequently taken that success for granted. Lightbody is known to keep his personal life private. Lightbody is passionate about football, is a supporter of Manchester United and has been known to support both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland national football teams. This is supported by the song ""Lifening"", in which he sings the lyrics ""Ireland in the World Cup, either North or South"". He is a fan of the , particularly Wolverine, and owns a stack of comics. He bought several comics as a kid and has some that he has never opened, hoping"
"for the 2018 Divide world tour. Snow Patrol Snow Patrol are a British rock band formed in Scotland in 1994, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Initially an indie rock band, the band rose to prominence in the early-mid 2000s as part of the post-Britpop movement. The band were founded at the University of Dundee in 1994 by Lightbody, Michael Morrison, and Mark McClelland as Shrug. After briefly using the name Polarbear and released the EP ""Starfighter Pilot"" (1997)"
"for a full live performance of the album proved difficult to negotiate, with so many artists involved and so much difficulty with scheduling. However, Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan performed an exclusive live duet of the song ""Some Surprise"" at the 2008 Meteor Awards in Dublin. ""The Cake Sale"" spent eighteen weeks in the Irish Albums Chart, peaking at #3. The Cake Sale (album) The Cake Sale is a 2006 charity album involving the collected works of a group of Irish and international musicians calling themselves The Cake Sale. The album features artists such as Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Lisa"
"for their band-mate, ""delighted that [Lightbody was] getting to exercise all his crazy ideas."" In October 2009, Lightbody in his blog on Snow Patrol's website revealed the members of the group to be Richard Colburn (of Belle & Sebastian), Iain Archer, singer Miriam Kaufmann (Archer's wife), and Jacknife Lee. He talked about two more members whom he was very excited about, but didn't name them. He also stated that the album won't be country as was being reported, but would be ""country-tinged"". In January 2010, ""Hot Press"" reported Peter Buck (of R.E.M.) to be a member of the group. Lightbody"
"Dundee. Lightbody formed a band with Mark McClelland and drummer Michael Morrison in 1994, called Shrug. Morrison left the band later, and the band were forced to change the name to Polarbear, as another band had claimed the name. In the band's first seven years of existence, they added drummer Jonny Quinn, released two albums (""Songs for Polarbears"", and ""When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up""), and toured with bands such as Levellers, Ash and Travis. The band stayed in Glasgow during the recording of the first two albums. Lightbody used to hold a job at the"
"The Cake Sale (album) The Cake Sale is a 2006 charity album involving the collected works of a group of Irish and international musicians calling themselves The Cake Sale. The album features artists such as Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Rice, Josh Ritter, Glen Hansard, Neil Hannon, members of Bell X1 and Nina Persson of The Cardigans. These were brought together by Brian Crosby, a member of Bell X1 at the time. The album had sold 35,000 copies and raised over €250,000 in Ireland by November 2007. That month it was announced that the album would be released"
"orchestra for Irish TV series ""Other Voices 8"". Lightbody has announced that the band will return to play their mini-festival at Ward Park in 2010. It will be the first time the band returns to their hometown since the last Ward park concert in 2007. Snow Patrol played at the Music Industry Trusts' Award 2008, held to honor Lucian Grainge, CEO of Universal Music Group. They opened the show by playing ""Chasing Cars"", standing in for singer Duffy, who was struggling with throat problems. All proceeds from the event, a record breaking sum of £568,593 went to two charities: the"
"Flogging Molly Flogging Molly is an Irish-American seven-piece Celtic punk band from Los Angeles, California and led by Irish vocalist Dave King, formerly of the hard rock band Fastway. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records. Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin-born Dave King was the lead singer for heavy metal band Fastway featuring guitarist ""Fast"" Eddie Clarke of Motörhead and bassist Pete Way of UFO in the early to mid '80s. He later fronted a hard rock band called Katmandu (1991), featuring Mandy Meyer of Krokus on guitars. Afterwards, Dave King retained a record deal"
"of Ireland. Brian Crosby Brian Crosby (born 12 June 1973) is an Irish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist working primarily in music for film and TV . Crosby is a founding member of the Irish band Juniper along with Damien Rice and later of Bell X1 along with Paul Noonan, Dominic Phillips and David Geraghty with whom he recorded four records and toured the world extensively between 1996 and 2008. In 2006, Brian devised, curated and produced The Cake Sale, a collective that featured the who’s who of the Irish music scene including Glen Hansard, Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol), Lisa Hannigan,"
"July 2009. These included reports on Blur, Fight Like Apes, Snow Patrol, The Ting Tings, Jerry Fish, a piece on Northern Irish acts such as David Holmes, That Petrol Emotion, Therapy?, Duke Special and The Answer, a piece on newer acts, twenty selected facts and an A–Z of festival fashion. Gary Lightbody talked of his first time when Snow Patrol were in their early twenties and spent the night drinking and ""being silly"". Traffic delays were encountered by fans on their way to the festival on 9 July. MCD suggested fans ought to expect an addictional three hours of travel"
"Ricky Warwick Ricky Warwick (born 11 July 1966, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish musician and songwriter, and the lead singer with Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy. He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band The Almighty, with whom he achieved chart success in the UK throughout the 1990s, although the band is currently on hiatus. Warwick has released several solo albums and performed with a variety of other bands and artists, and also fronts his own band, The Fighting Hearts, to showcase his solo material. Warwick spent his formative years in Northern"
"2002, the band started to be managed and published by Jazz Summers of Big Life. Guitarist Nathan Connolly, previously a member of the band File Under Easy Listening had been working in an HMV store room in Belfast at the time. Connolly and the band had a mutual friend, who introduced them to him. Connolly moved to Glasgow to join the band in the spring of 2002. During Lightbody and McClelland's years at the University of Dundee, they had been noticed by Richard Smernicki, a senior student. Through Richard, brother Paul too had come to know the band. Richard graduated"
"regular tours throughout continental Europe, especially Germany, as well as the UK and Ireland. One notable highlight was performing in Moscow's Luzhniki 'Olympic' Stadium. Since the early 2000s however, the Sands Family have restricted touring to an annual tour of Germany and Ireland. The Sands Family The Sands Family is a Northern Irish musical family band originating from Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. Their repertoire largely consists of their own compositions as well as traditional Irish songs. The band is considered one of the most influential folk groups. It showcases the famous Northern Irish folk singer-songwriter Tommy Sands as lead"
"inspiration to himself and Lee to start the project. Both Lightbody and Lee play all the instruments. The only known song by the group is ""Black and Silver"", which was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 10 January 2007 by Lightbody himself, while he was guest presenting for Zane Lowe (who was on vacation) during the 2007 takeovers. The sound of the song was described by ""Hot Press"" as ""heavily treated vocals and assorted electronic clicks and beeps"". ""NME"" described it as having a ""heavily processed arrangement, pitching an ominous multi-tracked vocal backing against glockenspiels and Lightbody’s vocal"". Lightbody himself"
"of ""The O.C."". The band's most recent gig was on 14 December 2002 at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow. The Reindeer Section The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. Lightbody describes the band's sound as ""pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-type stuff. Stuff that I really love listening to, like Low, for example, and Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and all that end of things. It's sort of inspired by those records rather than by the American rock"
"Snow Patrol Snow Patrol are a British rock band formed in Scotland in 1994, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Initially an indie rock band, the band rose to prominence in the early-mid 2000s as part of the post-Britpop movement. The band were founded at the University of Dundee in 1994 by Lightbody, Michael Morrison, and Mark McClelland as Shrug. After briefly using the name Polarbear and released the EP ""Starfighter Pilot"" (1997) and losing Morrison as a member,"
"Ireland Music Awards and have been nominated for six Brit Awards. Since the release of ""Final Straw"", the band have sold over 16 million records worldwide. Originally formed in early 1994 by University of Dundee students Gary Lightbody, Michael Morrison and Mark McClelland They were known as Shrug, the band started by performing gigs at the university and surrounding pubs such as Lucifer's Mill. Their first EP was entitled ""The Yogurt vs. Yoghurt Debate."" In 1996, they changed their name to Polar Bear (or Polarbear) to avoid issues with any American bands that were also named Shrug. Shortly afterwards, drummer"
"Glasgowbury in the summer of 2011. More Than Conquerors' latest EP ""Boots & Bones"" was released by Smalltown America Records on 7 November 2011. According to their MySpace page, they are currently signed to Smalltown America. More Than Conquerors (band) More Than Conquerors were an alternative rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2009, Kris Platt united with Danny Ball on guitar, Danny Morton on bass, and Jamie Neish on drums to form the band More Than Conquerors. Signing to Northern Irish independent record label Smalltown America (And So I Watch You From Afar, LaFaro, Jetplane Landing) in early"
"Dave King (Irish singer) Dave King (born 11 December 1961) is an Irish vocalist, primary writer and lyricist for the band Flogging Molly. He was previously well known as the lead singer for the 1980s hard rock band Fastway. King grew up in a small two-room flat in Beggars Bush, Dublin tenement that had once been part of Beggars Bush Barracks. When he was around the age of six or seven his parents bought him a guitar. King remembers being called inside by his mother to watch David Bowie perform ""Starman"" on television, which he cites as one of many"
"Listen... Tanks! Listen... Tanks! is an avant-garde music group, consisting of Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) and producer Jacknife Lee, who has produced the last three albums for Snow Patrol, among others. The group's music is very different from Snow Patrol and has been termed ""weird"" by Lightbody. The group will visit Lee's home in January 2010 to record an album, after they finish working on another project Tired Pony. Listen... Tanks! evolved after experiments in the studio between Gary Lighbody and Jacknife Lee. Lightbody has credited indie rock band Sunset Rubdown's second album ""Shut Up I Am Dreaming"" as"
"The Sands Family The Sands Family is a Northern Irish musical family band originating from Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. Their repertoire largely consists of their own compositions as well as traditional Irish songs. The band is considered one of the most influential folk groups. It showcases the famous Northern Irish folk singer-songwriter Tommy Sands as lead singer and songwriter and his brothers Ben Sands, Colum Sands and Eugene Sands and sister Anne Sands. Eugene was killed in a car accident in 1975 and the formation became a 4-member band. Tommy, Colum and Ben Sands have also successful solo careers"
"to the Third Bar"" an exception. He called the song ""a return to the formula of ""Run"", ""Chasing Cars"" and so on and so forth."" He criticized the song further by saying that it sounded like ""five young men caught in the headlights as Gary Lightbody sings about aching bones and cold skin over a clipped guitar riff, before everything explodes in an orgy of significance and strait-laced posturing. By the end, the boys in the band are furiously hammering away, heads down, no nonsense, wham bam thank you mam."" ""The Irish Times"" columnist Brian Boyd derided Snow Patrol as"
"Larry Kirwan Larry Kirwan (born in Wexford, Ireland) is an expatriate Irish writer and musician, most noted as the lead singer for the New York-based Irish rock band, Black 47. Prior to Black 47, Kirwan and fellow Wexfordian Pierce Turner were the house band in Malachy McCourt's Bells of Hell in Greenwich Village. Their music was a blend of folk, trad, progressive rock, Celtic rock and punk. The group was one of the few groups banned from CBGB's. In the words of Hilly Kristal they were ""too demonic"". They then led the new wave band Major Thinkers for some years."
"of how The Lightyears got together. He was signed to leading literary agency Johnson & Alcock in November 2013, and ""Mockstars"" was published the following summer by Red Button Publishing. Chris has since begun work on a trilogy of teen novels entitled ""Songs About A Girl"", in which an ordinary teenage girl is invited to take backstage photos for the world's hottest boy band. The trilogy was bought by Hodder Children's in 2015, and has sold in multiple territories worldwide. The Lightyears The Lightyears are a 4-piece pop-rock band based in London, England, comprising George Owens (lead vocals and guitar),"
"Lifening ""Lifening"" is a song by Northern Irish alternative rock group Snow Patrol. The track is the fifth single from the band's sixth studio album, ""Fallen Empires"". It was released as a free digital download on 3 July 2012 from the band's official website. In various interviews, Lightbody has stated that the song ""Lifening"" was written after his sister had children. He stated that he felt ""his body clock"" telling him that it was time to have children himself, and he has stated that the song is his way of trying to work out what he actually wants from life."
"as a solo artist. He now fronts rock band Wayward Sons, whose debut release is due out on Frontiers records in September. Andy Carr the bassist for the band also plays for another Glasgow band The Toi Gun (band) Gun is a hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. They are best known for the song ""Better Days"" as well as their cover of Cameo's ""Word Up!"". Originally called Blind Allez, then for a short time 'Phobia', GUN were formed in 1987 by Giuliano Gizzi (guitar) and Cami Morlotti (bass), with Mark Rankin (vocals), Alan Thornton (drums) and David Aitken (guitar)."