Gary Lightbody industry, specifically how music is obtained by consumers. He questions the public's motive to buy the songs which they have already listened to, and blames Myspace for it. Of Snow Patrol, Lightbody has said that all albums they managed to sell in the early days were from touring, as there were no unauthorized copies of their music available then. He believes if the current state of the industry continues, it would become impossible for bands starting out to become full-time. Despite this, he observes that the band might not have survived if they had been successful early in their career,
Robert Lightbody the few members listed as present when meetings were cancelled or postponed due to insufficient numbers. Lightbody was elected to the Woolhope Club in 1855, and served as its president in 1861. He was also a member of the Severn Valley Naturalists' Field Club and of the Caradoc Field Club (which merged). In 1863 he read a paper at the Ludlow meeting of the Severn Valley Naturalists' Field club titled "The Geology of Ludlow", which was later published in the Club Transactions. J.W. Salter records that Lightbody was responsible for discovering the earliest known Pteraspid in the Welsh Borders, "Archaegonaspis