In a story of loopy perseverance, Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny McDaid not too long ago performed a gig with not one however two damaged fingers.

Chatting with RTÉ’s Radio 1 [via The Journal], the band’s frontman Gary Lightbody has defined precisely how McDaid got here to maintain his accidents, and the way he managed to play exhibits anyway.

He says the primary damage got here from McDaid trapping his hand in a practice door between Switzerland and Frankfurt throughout their current European tour. “It wrecked his hand,” Lightbody says. “He ended up getting surgical procedure on his hand. By no means missed a present.”

And if that wasn’t sufficient of an ordeal already, worse was but to return. “After which the Thursday night time (27 February) in Belfast at midnight or so,” Lightbody goes on, “[McDaid] fell and wrecked his different hand. Smashed his knuckles on his different hand. After we got here in for soundcheck on Friday, he couldn’t transfer the fingers on his proper hand and he nonetheless performed the present on Friday night time.”

That weekend, McDaid underwent surgical procedure once more, this time for the opposite hand. “It’s insane,” Lightbody says. “He had two damaged fingers on the Friday present.” Regardless of these accidents, the exhibits went on, prompting Lightbody to confess, “He’s made of various stuff from the remainder of us”.

Following the discharge of their latest album, The Forest Is The Path, which arrived in September, Snow Patrol’s tour is ready to proceed in Vancouver on 21 March. See their web site for tickets.