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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nLast Monday, I got back into the office after a filling Thanksgiving weekend and realized I had, on my schedule, a pretty intimidating interview: Gary Lightbody from Ireland's Snow Patrol. Intimidating because I truly love Snow Patrol. (Gary Lightbody is just about the most pleasant person ever, for the record.)\n\nI met up with Gary at his hotel downtown, a few hours before Snow Patrol played a special intimate show at the Bowery Ballroom. (More on the show in a minute.) I asked him about the band's latest album, A Hundred Million Suns, which came out a few weeks ago. Here's our interview:\n\nIn almost every story I've read about Snow Patrol, you guys are referred to as 'totally normal.' Have you every heard any weird rumors about yourself?\n\nThe weirdest one is that my Dad dressed me in a suit of armor to go to school. We're pretty normal guys, not rock stars. We're not falling drunk out of a big club with a model on our arm. That impulse was beaten out of us during the early years when we weren't as successful! We're about the act of making music. That's why we're all in this band. We don't do things that land us in the gossip columns.\n\nTo maintain that normality on the road must be tough. Do you have any rituals or touchstones from home to keep grounded?\n\nAll of us center each other, really. We're pretty close, so anytime one of us feels homesick or annoyed we try and get that person to laugh. Laughter is an essential part of our days. We're like a bunch of chimps. And we all have the same sense of humor, so jokes are constantly evolving. Someone will surprise you with a unique sentence like 'this marmoset is on fire.' That was Pablo's. It's a very benign competition we have with each other.\n\nTell me about the new album.\n\nIt was our intention to making something completely different than before. There are so many different types of songs in this record, so in that way it's different."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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