Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody on the clarity of sobriety, f-bombs, Nick Cave and Ed Sheeran
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- It's been seven years since #SnowPatrol released an album, 2011 to be exact with 'Fallen Empires.' However, last May marked the release of their seventh and latest studio release, 'Wildness.'
Frontman Gary Lightbody jumps into the emotional impact and reasoning behind this album.
Superb. Gary is a honest person. I love him. ❤️
Why do so many interviewers seem so directly focused on the challenges that come with alcoholism? Gary is a good example of how grace is used to turn what started out as an intrusively rude interview to something much more gentle in responding to human vulnerabilities.
Poor Gary- he looked tired here- but he still gave an amazing interview. I could listen to him all day.
"Brighter after the Darkness", an apt name, and an equally apt album "Wildness", honesty, not profanity, thank you Mr Lightbody.
Love #Wildness !!💥 Truly; W👁W's ME⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ !!! It's my Fave (Empress) Same LP ?!! Sooon... Near & Dear to his heart... #HealMe "He starts this song with the biggest smile, & continues... as this is about the person whom saved his life !!! Huge Thanks from me Too !!! 😘❤💙
Yes
Gary Lightbody is a sweetheart ♥️
Gary is always awesome 😊❤️👍
Great interview. He´s the best...as a musician and a human being!
So True 💙🙌🥰💥❤ !!!
He's adorable
I love this man
Oh, Gary, my path to sobriety has been similar (well, as similar as alcohol and sobriety can be amongst the differences between us all...). Thank you for you genuine honesty, as you've always been. Thank you for your energy. I'm grateful to be on the path with you! Looking forward to seeing you in New York In October(fingers crossed❤)
❤️❤️❤️
You did it brother!! Your latest LP is full of amazing songs that are hits!! It’s from the heart. You tell beautiful family experiences, and losses and took that and made it special and deep. It was about your life and you did it. It’s an amazing LP. Every song is amazing!!
Agree (Love Love Love This one !!!)
Hats off to you Gary.You picked yourself up from the lowliest of lows and pushed forward.And your beautiful music portrays your journey.I hope you never stop creating amazing songs and music.❣
I have been listening to CFNY (102.1) since the 80s here in Toronto.
Can't wait to see them HERE (omg) on May 3rd!! ♥♥♥
jmmacb03 They rocked Seattle May 15th!!
He always wear different pair of socks. ☝💗
OMG, the family crest and legend anecdote is just unbelievable!! And the Peter Gabriel's song one is amazing too!!
I hate when they ask what songs are about, let them be about whatever connects with you!
that is so funny, my maiden name is Lightbody and we had a family crest/genealogy thing my mom got in the 80s also! now i have to dig through some boxes to find it and see if it has the same motto
The way of approaching topics from the interviewer is awful, it feels more like he is demanding information, Gary is a delight to listen to as always
The set up of this interview is infuriating. With the interviewer up on a higher chair and Gary crumpled down in a low couch. All the interviewer needs to do is swing his chair around backward and you have the awkward Guidance Counselor and the troubled teen. Very cringey. Gary is an amazing interview as always but... lord, give the man the respect he deserves.
And I love the mismatched socks. Very endearing.
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yep he denfo my cutie guy I like 👍🏻
The interviewer didn’t understand the meaning of his songs?? How?? He doesn’t know music or the meaning to the songs. Really??
I always wondered if the surname Lightbody is a Native American name. It is like names many of natives in the PacNW I know. A person who was light, tall or swift is what I thought. Light after darkness also makes sense and is much more beautiful. I’m sure it’s true.
His grandfather had it the last year or so. Not to take away as it’s unfair but a parent you are with and know is worse to me. His dad is only starting his decline. But his state is already bad. “Soon” hits me each time. I choke up by the last chorus every as I lived it with my mom who was and is my world. She had it more than 10 years. Soon after my dad died she worsened, and it was a crushing decade. The decline... I cared for her all that time, trying to keep your sanity at times is a minute by minute issue. In the beginning she read the front page of the paper outloud. Then she would say, “Oh, look at this.” And read it aloud 2-3 more times. My dad and I would look at each other and smile. Sometimes I screamed inside of my head. The love we share with our parents and the memories and pain that comes with Alzheimer’s/Dementia is truly crushing. I know what the Lightbody family has ahead of them and my heart breaks for them and my love and prayers go out to them as it does for anyone. So the lyrics to “Soon” are deep-deep. Soon speaks volumes of what that does. It also expresses how much love Gary has for his father. His memories of his dad being his hero, his everything, as a little boy show so eloquently here as does the depth of love he has for his father. It’s beautiful.
I could go on about every song on the new LP. Snow Patrol is my favorite band of all time. This guy acts like they came out of retirement or are a new band. Eejit. I’m insulted for the band by his comments and lack to be prepared for the interview and speak like he knows anything about the music or anything about them. Holy crap. I don’t think he knows anything about any of the bands in Ireland or the UK who are amazing if they aren’t huge. Ed Sheeran is okay, he’s not the same genre and he isn’t as good as Snow Patrol or a lot of other artists and bands I could name but won’t. This guy is trying to tell Gary the type of writer he is as Gary humbly compliments Johnny McDaid’s writing skills. Cuts Gary off by comparing him to others made it clear he‘s clueless about music and the bands. I know this station well, it’s fairly big. They shouldn’t let somebody interview a band who makes the station look like it’s from small town down South.
Well said in defence of a truly gifted artist.
Trumpets Harps Thank you. I try to defend I admire and respect. Although it’s a novel! Cheers
#MaybeItIsLatinTranslation👍👌🤘✌️
From NickCave to Ed bloody Sheeran!
🙏❤😇😊🎉❣
*"Chasing Cars"*
*One the best love songs ever written in history by a drunk songwriter.*
Some people just that "it" factor.
my sister has her first glass of wine at 11: 30 in the morning
awful interview .. Gary is wonderful but the interviewer just dreadful
This interviewer is horrible.
R. Alexander Ha Ha Ha. I’ve never heard that one before. Classic! ☺️
@@cougar2002law how have you never heard that one before and is a classic? It's one or the other
GARY'S APPEARANCE NEEDS WORK , SORRY I'M NOT TRYING TO BE JUDGEMENTAL, I PRAY FOR HIM.
Love gary to bits but the could of put a matching pair of socks on
He never does
He could have worn a matching pair as well
Super sorry to mention this - but was anyone else annoyed by the unintentional slights by the interviewer? Over and over he said something on the insensitive side. Maybe just me...
F- bombs are only embarrassing if you're a girl trying to sing the song.........it's too harsh a word for me..but, I guess if you are a guy...it's just the way they talk..casually...but, hey who's counting........interesting piece about Nick Cave...
Might be embarrassing for you but not for us Irish or the British.
@@Ciaradexy I am British..
@@kathydasilva1 Your name would say that British idiosyncrasies arent in your blood.
I have no problem singing fuck at the top of my lungs when needed. It’s got nothing to do with gender.
I also drop it regularly ( not quite hourly but close) in my everyday life and enjoy it. There is no other word like it and all it can convey.
My Ode to the F word 🤣
@@Ciaradexy My maiden name is not Da Silva however, I am British born and 'bred' .. as English as a person could be. Whether a person swears or not is down to upbringing and the household you come from. I was taught it was impolite to swear.. so it isn't a habit.