Snow Patrol are currently holed up in a recording studio in Ireland, working on the follow-up to 2006's 'Eyes Open'. However, it seems they are not the only ones there; they've apparently been joined by a large group of bats.
Writing on the band's MySpace blog, frontman Gary Lightbody said: "As the sun goes down the bats come out. They swoop just outside the bay windows of the living room and we watch and 'ohh' and 'ahh'. Two nights ago Tom closed the window after I joked about the potential chaos that would ensue if one flew through it. ... I went to my room turned on the light to find what? Yes, a bat. ... 'Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, bat!' I proclaimed with manliness aplenty. The calm was introduced by our good friend, drum tech and general legend Graemo Hunter [who made] a few slow movements and an open window later and he was out among his bat pals again. ... Graemo [then] worked out an ingenious lights off, door open, door closed, lights on system that seemed to do the trick. If it weren't for our Graeme we'd be covered in bats still. Clothed in them. Like the batsuit but made of live bats and no superhero within".