Snow Patrol on how they made Run
‘I went on a three-day bender in Glasgow and woke up blind in one eye with teeth missing. After I recovered, songs started pouring out of me’
I grew up in Bangor in Northern Ireland and didn’t understand the Troubles when I was younger. I just wanted to get away. Then I saw Nirvana live and my brain exploded. I couldn’t think of anything else. I went to Dundee University with one goal: to start a band. I met a guy from Belfast – Mark McClelland – on the day I arrived and we started Shrug, who evolved into Snow Patrol.