“He couldn’t move the fingers on his right hand and he still played the show”: Snow Patrol guitarist played gigs with TWO broken hands
In a tale of crazy perseverance, Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny McDaid recently played a gig with not one but two broken hands.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Radio 1 [via The Journal], the band’s frontman Gary Lightbody has explained exactly how McDaid came to sustain his injuries, and how he managed to play shows anyway.
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He says the first injury came from McDaid trapping his hand in a train door between Switzerland and Frankfurt during their recent European tour. “It wrecked his hand,” Lightbody says. “He ended up getting surgery on his hand. Never missed a show.”
And if that wasn’t enough of an ordeal already, worse was yet to come. “And then the Thursday night (27 February) in Belfast at midnight or so,” Lightbody goes on, “[McDaid] fell and wrecked his other hand. Smashed his knuckles on his other hand. When we came in for soundcheck on Friday, he couldn’t move the fingers on his right hand and he still played the show on Friday night.”
That weekend, McDaid underwent surgery again, this time for the other hand. “It’s insane,” Lightbody says. “He had two broken hands on the Friday show.” Despite these injuries, the shows went on, prompting Lightbody to admit, “He’s made of different stuff from the rest of us”.
Following the release of their newest album, The Forest Is The Path, which arrived in September, Snow Patrol’s tour is set to continue in Vancouver on 21 March. See their website for tickets.
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