Lightbody has described him as"the angriest man in pop:
great, great man.
This includes Lightbody, who returned to the city and now lives there.
Gary Lightbody and Tom Simpson are both fans of the football
club Dundee F. C.
Lightbody sold a major part of his record collection
to raise money to keep the band going.
Gary Lightbody talked of his first time when Snow
Patrol were in their early twenties and spent the night drinking and"being silly.
Lightbody stated that recording for the follow-up to Eyes Open
was to begin in Autumn 2006, with Jacknife Lee returning a third time for production.
One week before the festival, Gary Lightbody of Oxegen headliners Snow Patrol was
chosen as guest editor of The Ticket, The Irish Times's weekly music supplement.
Lightbody selected two musicians whose performances were covered
in that week's edition-he chose Lisa Hannigan and Josh Ritter-and also chose which bands Jim Carroll would write about in his column about new music.
Later, Jim Chancellor, an A&R executive for Fiction, and fellow talent scout Alex Close approached the band in Glasgow to
listen to their demos, and judged them on"the quality of the songs", according to Lightbody.