Snow Patrol’s founder and ex-bassist wants his share of the spoils
Belfast man Mark McClelland who along with Gary Lightbody formed Snow Patrol in 1994 is now suing the band for a quarter share of the bands earnings since he was booted from the band in 2005. And that must add up to quite a heafty sum which I’m sure is a great source of regret for McClelland who could be a rich man if he had remained in the band during it’s meteoric rise of the last couple of years. So now he is resorting to a legal battle to get his hands on what he thinks are his just deserves.
When the band booted McClelland they claimed their working relationship had deterioated from the pressures of touring to a point where they couldn’t work with him any more. But according to Mark it came as a complete surprise to him. At the time he was quoted in the Glasgow Daily Record as saying - “I didn’t see it coming because there was no real indication of these pressures they were talking about. I went down for a meeting to discuss what I thought was about when we were going to start rehearsing and writing for the new album. And it was just sprung upon me. It’s quite a surprise.”
Since the split McClelland formed a new band called Little Doses.
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