Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody tells Chris Evans Virgin Radio Breakfast Show he struggles celebrating without booze after going sober three years ago
SNOW Patrol’s Gary Lightbody has revealed he struggles celebrating without booze after going sober three years ago.
Speaking to Chris Evans on the Breakfast Show today, he admitted he still found it “strange” going alcohol free as they discussed the fact the band's track Chasing Cars is now the most played song of the 21st Century.
He said: “I stopped drinking three years ago, just over.
“Since I've quit drinking it's hard to work out a way to celebrate the celebrations, when we finished the second album WiIdness I’d stopped drinking and how do you celebrate something without booze is a very strange feeling.”
Talking about the success of the song, the 43-year-old said: “We didn’t know until a few days ago, the PPL had their anniversary celebrations last night and that was one of the awards.
“There is another 81 years to go but we will take the first 19 years absolutely! We’ve never had a number one but we have had a number one vicariously via Leona Lewis, Leona Lewis’ cover of Run got to number one so that’s the only time one of our songs have got to number one!”
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The star also opened up about his new single Time Won’t Go Slowly, which is part of a wider album out in the next six months.
He told Chris: “Because its 25 years, we decided to bring a new record out this year - some of it is new songs like Time Won’t Go Slowly, most of it is re-works of old songs.
“We wanted to mark it by looking back over some old songs and record them in a way we would do it now and see if we coughed up any gold - and they sound really, really great.”
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