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Snow Patrol singer says collaborating with fans helped ease songwriting struggle

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Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has told how collaborating with fans over social media helped him overcome his decade-long struggle with lyric-writing.

The Irish singer, 44, hosted songwriting sessions with fans each Saturday on Instagram Live during the first months of lockdown.

The result of those meetings, which sometimes featured as many as 5,000 fans, has now been released as The Fireside Sessions, with proceeds going to the Trussell Trust anti-poverty charity.

Lightbody told the PA news agency: “Over the last 10 years the biggest pain in the arse for me has been writing the lyrics. “For whatever reason, I just take it more seriously these days than I used to. “I want to get it perfect even when it is impossible. “There was still a

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