Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody announces virtual covers gig

Snow Patrol's lead singer Gary Lightbody has announced he'll be performing a covers gig this Thursday (30th April). The Northern-Irish singer, who co-founded the band over 25 years ago, revealed on Instagram that he's gearing up for a Facebook Live gig - and fans can choose the setlist.

Uploading a photo of a hand-written list of songs, Gary has invited his fans to vote for their favourites, and he'll perform the 10 most popular choices. He wrote, 'Hi everyone, I’m gonna do a covers gig on Facebook Live this Thursday at 8.05pm.'

Gary continued, 'Here are a few songs to choose from. Vote for your favourite over on Facebook and i’ll play the Top Ten. Some of these were on the list when i did the Instagram Live covers gig but i added a few more for anyone that saw that gig. loads of love. gL.x.'

Gary has chosen some pretty huge tracks for fans to pick from, including Tom Petty's 'Free Falling', Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', 'One Day Like This' by Elbow, Sam Fender's 'Will We Talk', 'Blackbird' by The Beatles and 'The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret' by Queens of the Stone Age.

He's also singled out some pop songs which are quite different to his normal style - Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Katy Perry to name but a few.

The post has had over 4,000 likes in its first few hours, with plenty of fans taking to the comments to share their thoughts and opinions on which songs he should play - with one follower leaving a heartfelt message on the post, 'It’s my wife’s birthday on Thursday @garysnowpatrol. ‘Chasing Cars’ was our first dance, but she walked down the aisle to ‘Hallelujah’. If you could play that on Thursday it would make her evening really special ❤️ .'

This comes after Snow Patrol performed on Absolute Radio’s Front Room Festival, performing 'Chasing Cars', 'Just Say Yes' and 'Run' as well as chatting to Danielle Perry.

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