The Northern Irish frontman talks embarrassing love stories, legal run-ins and meeting royalty – both musical and literal
What’s the first rule of patrolling the snow? Is it: don’t eat yellow snow?
The first rule is don’t talk about patrolling the snow. We were originally called Polar Bear. I was at Dundee university and saw a friend of mine on the street who said, “How’s your band going? How’s?” I was like: “Man, we’re called Polar Bear. I don’t know where you got that from.” A week later, we had to change the name of the band because one of the guys in Jane’s Addiction had just started a band called Polar Bear and his lawyers said we had to choose a new name.
I shudder to think about the embarrassing poetry I’ve sent people, or the mixtapes with songs that weren’t even love songs, like Nirvana, Laurent Garnier or Megadeth.They gave us an award in 2018 and said it was. I thought: “It’s a bit early for this. We’re only 18 years in. By the end of the century, it’s not going to be Chasing Cars. It’ll be something by Ed Sheeran, Adele, Taylor Swift, or perhaps someone we haven’t even heard of yet.”The last time I was in Sydney Opera House in 2019.
The most amazing part was that my mum got to go to Windsor Castle. My mum loves a wee London trip and she got to watch then-Prince Charles pin the OBE on my chest. She was proud as punch. But it was also very sad because my dad had recently passed away and didn’t get to share the moment. Unfortunately it was announced that I was getting it two days after he passed.over 50 times over the years. During the Vertigo tour in 2005 at an Amsterdam show, Andrea Corr came on as a guest vocalist.
Andrea – bless her, she’s so sweet – was all: “Oh my goodness, are you OK?” as I climbed back up. And just as I thought I’d maybe got away with it I turned around to see the whole right hand side of the stadium had seen me fall and about 20,000 people were pointing at me and giving me the finger.
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