But last night, up to 10,000 fans packed into the Odyssey Arena to welcome talking about the 12 hours at Heathrow, Gary Lightbody told the crowd. I'm talking about the 12 years it took us to play here. The band opened the show at exactly 9pm with Spitting Games, prompting a from their first album Songs For Polar Bears, as well as a track from Gary's earlier side project, the Reindeer Section.
Songs like Shut Your Eyes, How To be Dead and You're All I Have were given This is our finest moment, bar none, an ecstatic Gary Lightbody We have toured all around the world, but the one place we missed the most was here. As well as thanking the fans, Gary also paid tribute to support acts - local Secretary of State Peter Hain was joined at the gig by his wife Elizabeth, sister Sally and niece Connie. He revealed he has been a fan since the band BBC Northern Ireland's new Controller Peter Johnston, also hailed the show a When I first joined the BBC about 10 years ago, Across the Line sued playing the Odyssey now.
After the concert, band members joined family and friends at an after-show lived up to our expectations, he said. Gary Lightbody's biggest fans, parents Jack and Lynn, said it had been an We're so proud of him, said Lynn, The band did themselves and Northern Ireland proud tonight. Belfast schoolgirls.
Christina Mairs and Maeve Bell, both A Level pupils at Victoria College, were delighted to meet the band to take delivery of a very special item.
News RSS