Do you remember when Snow Patrol were just a minor band with a line in moaning indie pop? No, of course, they’re a very successful band with a line in moaning indie pap. Apparently, in 2002, Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody fell down a flight of stairs when he was drunk and broke his jaw, but thanks to his treatment of hospital staff (he was being a dick), it was never diagnosed:
"Because of my previous night's behaviour to the nursing staff, the only thing they wanted was rid of me so there were no head x-rays taken," he told the Daily Record, "Let me be clear right now, I am not annoyed with the nurses at all - I'm only ashamed of myself, not annoyed with them."
But onto the injury: "I busted myself up pretty bad. My eye closed over like a beaten boxer and I lost some teeth, which I got replaced - waking up in a hospital bed with only one eye and the worst hangover I ever had is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy….A few years after that incident, my jaw started to get sore and has been a source of pain for years. I have seen all kinds of people about it, my mistrust of western medicine meant, though, that never once did I get it x-rayed." It would be too easy to make a joke about how this explains his singing for the last eight years… Oh, we just have.




