A Tumblelog dedicated to archiving the many words spoken, written, and tweeted by the legendary Gary Lightbody.
“Off for a run to get ready for the ‘lympics. Competing in the 110m mumble, the 50m yodel and the long distance face slap.”
~ Gary Lightbody (July 27, 2012)
“Landed in London. There seems to be some sort of sporting event taking place. Good luck to them I say. Horray sports!”
~ Gary Lightbody (July 26, 2012)
“It’s kind of become everybody’s wedding song…it belongs to the collective consciousness now. That’s an amazing thing, it’s all you can really hope for for a song,”
~ Gary Lightbody on “Chasing Cars”
(Source: youtube.com)
“It’s sort of ironic that supporting a band would make us feel comfortable being big, but they kind of lead the way by example on how to interact with a crowd. I was always reasonably good with talking to an audience, but I couldn’t whip them up into a frenzy, not like Bono can. You kind of learn from him how to do that.”
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-Gary Lightbody
on being the support band for U2.(Source: youtu.be)
“I think probably Lifening was the ‘Eureka!’ moment. Sitting with my Goddaughters [who] were playing in the studio…they were making me laugh and jumping around. Betsy (the eldest) was making up songs as she does, like little funny songs, and I was just laughing. And then it sort of struck me that this is the important stuff in life - having family and friends. It is feeling like you belong somewhere in the world and that you maybe don’t desire as much as you used to desire. You actually start to want things that are important, rather than things that only fleetingly make you happy…[like] having money and drugs and guns. I had to sell all of my guns, not my drugs though.”
~ Gary Lightbody
(Source: youtu.be)
“I couldn’t even write my name on a cheque. It was that bad at the time… (Stipe arriving at the studio) was amazing because the first song I ever played live was R.E.M.’s Find The River at a school concert. Michael just made a few suggestions here and there. On a track called New York there was a line, ‘Your face has never left me.’ He said, ‘That sounds like you’ve got a girl’s head in your bag.’ So we changed that.”
~ Gary Lightbody
(Source: nationalledger.com)
“In my dream last night I was a giant letter P looking for all the other letters to spell PAJAMAS. Not sure why. Seemed important at the time.”
~ Gary Lightbody (July 3, 2012)
“Right! Off to the gym to eat a box of Cadbury’s Cream Eggs.”
~ Gary Lightbody (July 14, 2012)
“So the train rumbled on towards Oxford and the English countryside stretched out, as it does, in rolling blankets of green and I caught myself smiling a little smile and I raised my wee plastic glass of train wine to Philip Larkin, anonymity and to keeping it simple.”
~ Gary Lightbody
(Source: The Huffington Post)
“Nathan, our guitar player, was walking back to his hotel and was stopped by two young girls. They asked him in their sweet and tiny Belfast trills (ahem) “Hoy, mate, who are you,” “I’m Nathan,” said our Nathan. They looked at one another a little crestfallen as if the name should have jogged a memory but didn’t and one said in loud whisper, “Well he must be SOMEbody, he’s wearing a hat.” This is my point. We are not famous but our songs are.”
~ Gary Lightbody
(Source: The Huffington Post)
“Recently our hometown of Belfast was struck down splendidly with MTV European music awards (EMAs) fever. The kids of Belfast were apoplectic with joy at the volume of stars they knew to be somewhere in their city: Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Coldplay and Justin Bieber among others. It was the kind of joy Belfast has never seen before. We were in city (a country) at war in the darkness for so many years and now with over a decade of peace under our belts the country has become a place of music and laughter and art and togetherness. It’s a sight to behold and the world looked in on Belfast for the first time and saw the biggest, brightest party we ever had. But the Beiber Fever in particular. Well that was riotous. I witnessed kids chasing any car with tinted windows down the street and banging on the doors shouting Justin in the hope that the blacked out window would roll down and young prince Bieber would appear as if by magic and high-five them or flash them a smile, or marry them. I’m not sure those kids ever did find his car. I hope they did. And I hope he high-fived them.”
~ Gary Lightbody
(Source: The Huffington Post)
