"an interview to have grown up as an ""Indie rock kid"" inspired to become a musician through influences of artists and acts such as Kurt Cobain, Super Furry Animals, and Sebadoh. Lightbody has worked with the aid organisation Save the Children in Uganda, an experience on which he has written in ""New Statesman"". He has also been involved in raising awareness of depression, a condition that he himself has struggled with. In July 2012, Lightbody received an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Ulster at a ceremony in the Millennium Forum, Derry. See also Snow Patrol Awards. Lightbody"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"including members of bands like Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Idlewild, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap and other musicians. The group released ""Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!"" in 2001 and ""Son of Evil Reindeer"" in 2002. Growing up, Lightbody listened to artists like Super Furry Animals, Quincy Jones, Kool & the Gang, and Michael Jackson. He subsequently got into hard rock bands AC/DC and KISS as a teen, and then alternative acts like Sebadoh, Mudhoney, Pixies and Pavement. As a boy, he dreamed of becoming ""the biggest rock star on the planet"" like Bono, but he was never ""cool"". Lightbody started"
"Tired Pony Tired Pony is a music supergroup consisting of Gary Lightbody, Richard Colburn, Iain Archer, Jacknife Lee, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Troy Stewart. Lightbody formed the group out of his appreciation for country music, and has during the early planning phase described the group's music once as ""country-tinged"" but explained later that in the end the album's development turned out much more to Americana than country during the whole creative process in the studio. The group visited Portland, Oregon in January 2010 to record this debut album, which was produced by member Lee; ""The Place We Ran From"""
"music video for the song was shot after the band finished the Take Back the Cities whistle-stop tour. It was produced by Suza Horvat and directed by Kevin Godley. The video opens with the band playing the opening bars of the song on their respective instruments. Gary Lightbody is then shown singing the lyrics with the camera focused on his lips. The camera zooms out, slowly revealing his full face. As the song reaches its chorus, the camera zooms out quickly to show the whole band and a crowd of people are shown running past. The people disappear as the"
"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"
"hop community. Lightbody felt it would be one of the most sought-after songs on the collection. Lightbody is pleased with ""Give Me Strength"" and has named it [probably] his most favorite song by the band. The song is about everyone who's ""been there"", his love for his bandmates, especially Jonny Quinn, whom he considers his big brother. He has said that it was ""long overdue"". The song is lyrically similar to ""Weather to Fly"" by Elbow. Lightbody is a huge fan of the band and is ""head-over-heels in love"" with them. He has credited the band for being the reason"
"in June and joined officially as new Lead Singer in September. A list of Producers, Engineers and Musicians that The Lighthouse Boys have recorded with over the years. <nowiki>*</nowiki>originally recorded May 26, 1980 <nowiki>**</nowiki>originally recorded from 1995-1997 The Lighthouse Boys The Lighthouse Boys are an American Southern Gospel band from Bakersfield, California, and progenitors of ""The Bakersfield Sound"". The group began in 1974 by brothers Mark and Bill Underwood and Bill's brother in-law Steve Johnson. In 1976, the trio expanded from a vocal ensemble to a full band with the addition of Frank McNinch, Garry Miller, and Kenny Knight. The"
"The band wanted to make an album more quickly than they had done the last time. By the time Snow Patrol ended their Eyes Open Tour, Lightbody had approximately 220 songs written on GarageBand. During the recording process, the band narrowed them down to approximately 30 songs, of which about 20 were eventually recorded. Apart from Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Paul Wilson too had written songs. The band listened to albums from artists like Fleet Foxes, Wolf Parade and Sigur Rós during the process. In an interview after the Eyes Open Tour, it became known that the band wished to"
"guitar riff that runs relentlessly throughout the track, quickly followed by a dancelike drumbeat which boldly kicks in alongside Gary Lightbody’s distinct vocals declaring, 'it's like we just can't help ourselves cause we don't know how to back down.' ""As the kids took back the parks,"" Lightbody sings, ""You and I were left with the streets."" The song builds momentum and reaches a climax with a striking, textured, electronic heavy chorus, 'we are listening and we are not blind, this is your life, this is your time.' The song aptly ends with the repeating guitar riff and its accompanying drum"
"in July/August. The band also released a compilation album featuring tracks from the band's 15-year history, ""Up to Now"", on 9 November 2009. It includes thirty tracks spanning two CDs, of which three are original new songs. ""Just Say Yes"", a song written by Lightbody and earlier recorded by Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and X Factor star Diana Vickers, was released as the lead single on 2 November. The album additionally contains past singles, covers and rarities, including songs from the band's side-project The Reindeer Section. A limited edition coffee-table book is also in the works. The band also wishes"
"""LMA Manager 2007"". Two videos were shot for this song. The first one, released with the single, shows Gary Lightbody walking through a city and tearing holes on the landscape at certain points. Upon entering them, he joins the rest of the band as they play and sings one part of the song, before going out and walking a bit more until tearing another hole and rejoining the band, in a cycle which repeats a few times throughout the video. The second one, accompanying the Australian single release, consists of a live performance during a tour of the band on"
"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"
"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)"
"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"
"Afterparty. Sean, under the name Chopper, performed his normal guitar duties as well as being the band's lead singer. Toilet Böys Toilet Böys are an American rock and roll band from New York City, United States. The band's original line-up is made up of Miss Guy, Sean Pierce, Electric Eddie, Rocket, and Adam Vomit. Toilet Böys have toured world-wide supporting musical acts such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nashville Pussy, Orgy, The Damned, Dee Dee Ramone & Deborah Harry. They were known for a highly energetic stage show that included spark-showers, smoke, lasers, strobes, synchronized flame-columns, cheerleaders, confetti cannons, burning"
"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"
"and the nobility, appears often in the original novels. Singing at the head of the group is Snow Patrol's frontman Gary Lightbody, in a cameo appearance. The closing credits reprise the song in a new version recorded specifically for the series by the indie band The Hold Steady. The group, one of Benioff and Weiss's favourite bands, was chosen because they wanted the rendition ""to be bawdy and a little sloppy – drunken musicians getting up on the table and jamming while the rowdy party continues around them"". The decision to place the song at the end of the episode,"
"in the first person"". It praised Lightbody's vocals, saying that though it would be easy for a singer to overdo the chorus, Lightbody did it as if he was ""unimpressed"". However, Stereogum's review of the single was extremely negative. It called the song ""drab"" and mocked the band for ""doing the piano sap rock so effectively"", saying only ""moms and first dates"" will like it. ""NME"" made comparisons between Gary Lightbody and ""Spider-man"" Peter Parker, saying both live double lives, with Lightbody's duality being a ""mainstream/indie bastard hybrid"". It said that both had to choose between their ""good and dark"
"Dave Waterbury Dave Waterbury is an American music producer, musician, and songwriter from Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Waterbury was a member the rock band Spirit, having of played bass guitar and sang on three tours in the 1980s. He was also a member of and toured with the group The Box Tops in 1979. As musician, producer, songwriter, or all three at once, Waterbury has worked with members of The Doors (Robbie Krieger), and Suicidal Tendencies guitarist (Anthony Gallo), Tears for Fears, Randy California, Pink, Mark Kendall of Great White, Ray Charles, 4 Non Blondes, Michael Jackson (Leon Abner), Terri Nunn"
"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 music that inspired me to start a band in the first place."" The songs ""You Are My Joy"" and ""Cartwheels"""
"Gary Lightbody. Morrison left the band in 1995 and with new drummer Jonny Quinn, they became Polar Bear and eventually Snow Patrol. On 9 July 1998, McClelland graduated with first class honours and was one of the only three students to graduate in the course that year. Additionally, he was the only student to graduate in first class for that course that year. A few weeks later, Snow Patrol released their first studio album ""Songs for Polarbears"" (a reference to previous band name Polarbear) under Jeepster. In 2001, the band released their second studio album ""When It's All Over We"
"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),"
"little guitar I'd tried to smash up in my shitty little room near Hillhead. The words 'Light up, light up' gave me this sense of a beacon."" In an interview with ""Daily Mail"" in 2009, Lightbody added: ""We had nothing. I was in a flat in Glasgow. No doubt it was raining. The song was me writing about an imagined world, projecting myself into better times."" Beside Lightbody, it was written by Quinn, Nathan Connolly, Mark McClelland and Iain Archer. ""Run"" is a power ballad composed using common time in the key of C major, with a tempo of 72"
"one for the US. In the UK music video, Gary Lightbody lies on the open ground as cameras film him from different angles. It starts raining, splashing his face and hands. Lightbody enters a pool of water next to him and, at the end of the video, he gets out of the water, rises to his feet and looks up at the camera as it zooms out overhead. In the US music video, Lightbody is shown lying down in busy places while singing. People ignore him and step over him. Among the places he lies are a diner, an intersection,"
"version of the song and it premiered on SP.com and Snow Patrol's MySpace on 2 May. The video was also placed on the ""active rotation"" list of MTV Netherlands from the week starting 18 May and named one of the ""Must C"" videos. The video features vocalist Gary Lightbody making his way around the city singing the song. Simultaneously, a pair of hands are constantly drawing with a pen, making cut-outs of Lightbody and changing the background behind him, appearing to move him in different places. Lightbody joked about the video: ""It's the first video where I haven't been waist"
"band's record collections, musical tastes and influences. The band, fans of The Posies, met Ken Stringfellow at a couple of festivals they attended, and asked him if he wanted to get involved. He accepted, and visited the studio for a day, contributing piano. The band had been listening to Martha Wainwright's ""Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole"" during the sessions and were fans of it. Towards the end of the recording sessions, Lightbody wrote a duet with her in mind, hoping to get her to sing it. She liked the song and agreed to record it. Eugene Kelly and a few members"
"'80s-kissed track"". Lightbody, who as a teenager loved dance music and frequented nightclubs, says ""Just Say Yes"" is a song that the band has always ""had in them"", but expressed surprise at the fact it took 15 years to happen. Quinn admitted the band were worried and knew they were taking a chance with the song. He felt a lot of people might hate it, but said the band had no regrets doing it. The song received its first airplay on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 17 September 2009. Lightbody joined Lowe on air via phone from Toronto,"
"The Lighthouse Boys The Lighthouse Boys are an American Southern Gospel band from Bakersfield, California, and progenitors of ""The Bakersfield Sound"". The group began in 1974 by brothers Mark and Bill Underwood and Bill's brother in-law Steve Johnson. In 1976, the trio expanded from a vocal ensemble to a full band with the addition of Frank McNinch, Garry Miller, and Kenny Knight. The band recorded their self-titled debut album in the late 1970s and released it in 1980. The band has undergone many line-up changes throughout their recording and touring careers, but the core trio has remained at the helm"