Lightbody: 'Snow Patrol saved my life'

Gary Lightbody has revealed that Snow Patrol saved his life.

The frontman told The Sun that an intervention from drummer Jonny Quinn prevented him from succumbing to alcoholism.

"I was at the stage where I was destroying everything in my path," he said. "I was like a whirlwind - a calamity magnet. I was behaving appallingly and drinking far too much. There was a six-month period where I was completely out of control.

"I wouldn't listen to anyone. I was drinking so much that if I'd have carried on at that rate, I would have ended up dead. Our drummer, Jonny Quinn, saved my life. I wasn't listening to anyone but he had a word in my shell and I eventually realised the pain I was causing to everyone around me."

Lightbody, who now claims that he has "drastically reduced" his drinking, has penned a track called 'Disaster Button' about his alcoholism on the upcoming Snow Patrol record A Hundred Million Suns.