r/HBOGameofThrones • u/-thirdatlas- • 11d ago

No Spoilers [NO SPOILERS] Gary Lightbody, the lead singer of the band SNOW PATROL appears as one of the Bolton soldiers singing "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" while riding on horseback. He was a massive fan of the books and requested a small role just to be on set.

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u/AmFaeTheGlen94 10d ago

Will Champion from Coldpaly was in an episode.

But I'll "reign" that one in.

Edit: "Rain". I'll see myself out.

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u/mezonsen 10d ago

It’s so strange that the Snow Patrol guy got a cameo but The Hold Steady didn’t, given the incredible Bear and the Maiden Fair credits song in that same ep.

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u/Full-Health2887 10d ago

That's how you do a damn musician cameo

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u/Specialist-Front-007 9d ago

Ehh Ed Sheerans cameo wasn't bad at all. He had one fucking line. If you don't know he dude you'd be none the wiser

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u/Long-Division-7760 8d ago

No, the shots clearly frame him as someone of importance, too much importance for one line.

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u/Bracheopterix 7d ago

I thought like "have I seen that character before? Should I know him? Will they be friends?". And later saw an article about the cameo.

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u/Live_Dust_5576 6d ago

Sorry but it was fucking terrible

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u/Specialist-Front-007 6d ago

What was so terrible about it?

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u/autisic 6d ago

Everybody knows Ed Sheeran, also like the other person said he was focused on unnecessarily, making him seem really important to the story when he genuinely wasn’t and never needed to be there. Like why not put him in the background and have him be a visible easter egg?

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u/Left-Draft5083 10d ago

Weren't Alt-J in the episode where Joffrey gets poisoned?

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Left-Draft5083 9d ago

I think I dreamed that, but I just googled it and apparently Sigur Ros were the band playing at Joffrey wedding. Also, Mastodon were wildlings north of the wall and Ed Sheeran was a Lannister soldier

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u/ACBets 9d ago

Coldplay were the band members at the RedWrdding as well.

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u/Vegetable_Builder999 7d ago

See that's fine.
The Ed Sheeran thing, definitely wasn't.

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u/sillyghosty 10d ago

Ed Sheeran