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The Chris Evans Show

The TFI Thursday one with Gary Lightbody

The Chris Evans Show

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.5695 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody tells us all about the 20th Anniversary Edition of Eyes Open!


Catch TFI Unplugged on Channel 4 from 11pm on Friday nights or on the Virgin Radio UK YouTube channel!


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0:00.0

Right, it's time for our next guest now. Rock and roll is in the house and it doesn't get any better than this guy.

0:05.5

He has been on the run, chasing cars. See what we're doing here?

0:10.9

Making magical music for the decades and thankfully Snow Patrol are still absolutely smashing it.

0:15.7

The 20th anniversary edition of their hit album Eyes Open is out in July. It's anniversary now as I've made

0:20.8

the first. So please welcome a musical heavyweight's Gary Lightbody.

0:29.2

All right gal. I'm going to make. I can see you.

0:36.5

My wife loves you so much.

0:42.5

Did you hear what happened?

0:43.2

I heard the request.

0:45.2

Never happened.

0:46.4

No, I think we're 19, 20 years together this year.

0:48.2

She's never ever said, oh, by the way, can you please play me this record on the radio before?

0:51.8

Not before, just you before anybody comes on.

0:54.0

She's never ever asked me to play a record on the radio. But she loves you. She loves Snow Patrol so much. Well, thank you for... Hello to her. Yeah, Natasha is her name. Natasha, hi. Not only that, she shares it with our sister-in-law. She said, oh, yeah, it's mine and Emma's song. I didn't know any of this is called the beginning They love it It should There. There's a rude version. I said, no, I've heard the song before. Thankfully, we... I was sort of listening to make sure you were playing the right one, yeah. Good for Clixie for to play the wrong one. How are you, mate? Good, thank you. Oh my gosh. I'm great. Thanks. Congratulations. We share the same sober birthday. you're so funny. Oh, do we really? Third of June, yeah. Yeah, I'm three, you're ten.

1:30.5

I'm about to be 10. Yeah, I'm about to be three.

1:33.6

Fantastic. Well done. It's wonderful, isn't it? Oh, my God. What do you feel? I feel great. It's really interesting hearing you talk about it

1:40.6

because I've got friends who have been sober forever,

1:43.6

not forever, but you know, since they became sober.

1:46.0

And they say, I say not forever, but you know, since they

1:44.9

became sober. And they say, I say, God, it's life so much easier for a start, so much more

1:50.7

navigable. They said, oh, wait until you get to five. I said, well, it keeps changing. And say,

1:55.7

oh, yeah, it changes it all the time. Yeah, after 18 months for me, I went down into a hole that I had to climb

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