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When the Gary Lightbody event went on sale it sold out in record time. Due to unprecedented demand, we are delighted to announce this additional matinee event.
Time. Home. Love. Death. Life. These are the themes of Snow Patrol's No1 album, The Forest is the Path and of this live conversation with its lead singer Gary Lightbody.
Gary will join us to discuss his debut non-fiction book The Forest is the Path (HarperCollins) with Jan Carson.
Throughout their thirty-year career, Snow Patrol have firmly established themselves as one of the greatest bands of a generation, producing multiple number one hits such as Chasing Cars and Run, boasting a global fanbase and earning several Brit and Grammy award nominations. Their latest album, The Forest is the Path, was released to critical acclaim in September last year, and went straight to Number One.
Now the band's front man and lyricist Gary Lightbody joins us to tell the stories that inspired the album and a new book that shares its name and is both a prequel and companion piece to this extraordinary record.
At its heart, it tells the story of Gary's father, Jack, who sadly passed away in 2019, and the numb journey this sent Gary on – the end of which seemed to unlock a part of him that had been dormant until he started to write songs again.
This In Conversation event with Gary will be a testament to the healing powers of music, offering beautiful, humorous, and strikingly raw insight into the emotional journey behind the band's latest chart-topping album.
Gary Lightbody is an artist, writer and lead singer of Snow Patrol. This is his first book.
