Gary Lightbody Nice n Sleazy's Bar in Sauchiehall Street. Today, Lightbody owns a small place in Glasgow and says he will never leave the country behind, though he resides in Belfast. He feels an attachment to the place, as it gave him his first taste of success. In the early days, Lightbody used to drink very heavily, and in his words, was "irrational, erratic, neurotic". He had become frustrated by Snow Patrol's lack of financial success and felt lost and aimless. He started cursing at the audience and demolishing the band's equipment. He found himself breaking guitars they could not afford. This
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