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Paul Brannigan

“It was like being plugged into an electrical socket that has charged me ever since.” Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody on the rock show that made him want to start a band

Gary Lightbody.

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has spoken about how Nirvana's first and only show in Belfast, Northern Ireland made him want to be in a band.

As a teenager, the first rock band that Lightbody fell in love with - “or at least the first one I’ll admit to getting into" he once told Rolling Stone - was AC/DC, but it was hearing Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind which “exploded everything”, and flicked a switch within the County Down schoolboy.

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