Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by the alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance at the Park Ave. store, then located in Winter Park. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of the songs acoustically before because "they don't work acoustically" and they may very well turn out to be a "bloody shambles". The physical EP was limited edition and was sold only
Gary Lightbody phase ran for two years. He later gave up drinking and now does it "for fun" and credits his bandmates for the turnaround. The song "Disaster Button" ("A Hundred Million Suns") deals with this topic. Though a musician, he cannot read music and has said that he "guesses" his way through chords. He has a baritone vocal range. When at the University of Dundee, Lightbody met Nick DeCosemo, a fellow student, and the two became friends. DeCosemo also moved in Lightbody's Springfield apartment when he moved out of his parents' house. Nick had formed a club night called The Spaceship