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With the number of Snow Patrol related articles, news, interviews, etc. popping up so often, seems logical to have a thread dedicated to it.

I'll start off...

Snow Patrol’s Fall Blizzard Of Shows - http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/06/23/674690.aspx

Snow Patrol plan 'Hundred Million Suns' tour - http://www.livedaily.com/news/19484.html

Snow Patrol looks to build on hard-fought success - http://www.livedaily.com/news/15093.html

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nice find Witchie,but get your ass down to the Maida Vale thread NOW,& join us!

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He he he...... ass moved LOL

Oh Goma I want to see it too.

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youtube tomorrow hopefully (fingers toes & everything else crossed)

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gomagoti wrote:
youtube tomorrow hopefully (fingers toes & everything else crossed)

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And another that I hope i am not repeating.

Snow Patrol ready to enter its next phase
By: Nancy Dunham
Special to The Examiner
September 24, 2009

You know how it is with 14-year-olds.

Just as children of that age enter new stages in their lives, so do bands such as alt-rockers Snow Patrol.
"We've sort of found the line," said frontman/lead songwriter Gary Lightbody. "We are ready to enter our next phase.
The first phase of the band began somewhat haphazardly when Lightbody and his bandmates formed a student band at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland. It crossed the finish line in a way in 2006 when the album "Eyes Open" became the year's best-selling album in the U.K. and the 2008 release "A Hundred Million Suns," won commercial success.
It took years of struggle -- with Lightbody famously selling his record collection in the mid-1990s to pay the rent -- to reach those commercial high points which include several music award nominations and wins.
To mark its second season, Snow Patrol is touring behind the November release of "Up To Now" a collection of the band's most successful songs plus three new tracks. The release -- which is available as a two-disc CD with 30 tracks, a three-disc digipack with a DVD that includes all kinds of treats including an animated film, and a limited edition box with all types of extras including a lithograph print -- is meant to satisfy fans who crave extra versions of Snow Patrol's classics.
"It's really the history of the band for [long-time] fans of the band and even for those that are just coming to it now," said Lightbody, whose band has gained a fair amount of extra U.S. buzz with opening gigs for Irish rockers U2. "There are all kinds of crazy things fans will like."
A version of the band's song "Crazy In Love" -- which became a hit in the hip-hop community -- will be one of the most sought after sounds in the collection, he said.
But fear not, said Lightbody. Although the band is starting a second phase that will likely include a newer, fresher sound and mix up other elements of the band -- down to where each member stands on the stage -- the group plans to keep rocking.
"We are just starting the beginning of the next phase," he said. "How many phases there will be, we don't know. But we aren't in any way, shape or form stopping or even slowing down slightly. ... Where we go next is really up to us. Now we have a license to do whatever the hell we want."

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Preview: Gary Lightbody on Snow Patrol gone wild
by Ed Masley - Dec. 7, 2008 11:45 AM
The Arizona Republic

A Hundred Million Suns is not the album Snow Patrol set out to make. That album would have been a wilder, more experimental ride. But as lead singer Gary Lightbody explains it, there are certain things about Snow Patrol's sound that can't be shaken off so easily. Like melody and honesty. And maybe he's OK with that.
"That sort of reined in the record that was desperately shooting, trying to throw itself at the stars," he says. "It kept it earthbound at the very least. We were trying to make something much more wildly experimental, but I think it probably would have alienated a lot of people, to be honest. And I think that sets the standard for the next leap, the next record, that it'll hopefully constantly keep changing, even in increments."
We spoke with Lightbody about the U.K. band's decision to record part of the album in Berlin, why he feels this may be their most complete work yet and how it felt to crack the Top 10 on the U.S. album charts.
Question: You've said, "This is our most complete record by far."
Answer: I think you learn every time you make a record, but also in between times too, especially when you're working with somebody like (longtime producer) Garret "Jacknife" Lee. His work doesn't begin and end in the studio. He's a good friend who pushes us. When we're on tour, he'll be phoning us up going, "Have you heard this record by this band?" Or, "Have you got some new songs
to send me?" He's constantly keeping us aware of what's going on and what standard we should be at. And he's all the time working with bands like U2 and the Editors, Bloc Party, Weezer, R.E.M. He's learning every time he's away from us, too. And when he comes back, he's got a bunch of new ideas, new ways of working. So this time, the sort of collected knowledge that we had was just so much more vast than at any time.
Q: Can you think of examples of artists Garret Lee told you to check out that went on to have an impact on the album?
A: We were listening to a lot of Steve Reich, and his repetitive rhythmic kind of songs are at work on a lot of The Lightning Strike. And Miracle Fortress is a band that Garret turned me onto. Their record came out in 2007 but I've been listening to it all year this year. In a strange way, it's my record of the year, even though it wasn't out this year. And they had, I think, a profound impact on our record. They have a wonderful kind of woozy, dizzying feeling to the record and I hope that that sort of comes across on our record sometimes, too.
Q: It's refreshing to talk to someone who doesn't pretend he creates in a vacuum.
A: Oh God, we're influenced by music every day. Tonight, we're playing in Louisiana with two of my favorite bands, Death Cab for Cutie and Cold War Kids. I'm just absolutely stoked. Music is life. It's not a job.
Q: You mentioned The Lightning Strike, the 16-minute, 18-second song that closes your new album
. Was there any concern in the band that might be a little long?
A: I don't think anyone batted an eye at it. It was just the way that this record was going that things like that were bound to happen. And not necessarily things like a 16-minute song. But just that anything could and more than likely would happen.
Q: What inspired you to do part of the record in Berlin?
A: I had Low and Heroes by (David) Bowie and The Idiot by Iggy (Pop) and U2's Achtung Baby, records that were recorded in Hansa Studio in Berlin, but I never really added them all up together. I knew that Lou Reed and Bowie and Iggy had their Berlin period, but the studio wasn't famous to me. I mean, I'd heard the name. I'm a music geek, not a technical geek. I tend to accidentally break machinery. So I generally avoid it. Not that I do it on purpose. I'm an accidental techno-destroyer. That's my code name for the CIA. I think all of us were excited to be going to Berlin and any preconceptions that we had, we were completely blown away. It's unbelievable. Relatively, it's a new city, since the wall came down in 1989.
Q: So you didn't really record in the Berlin that Bowie and Lou Reed and Iggy recorded in.
A: It would have been a vastly different place in the mid-'70s. And those records reflect that. They are sometimes claustrophobic and frightening. A song like Nightclubbing by Iggy is just light years ahead of its time, but it still gives this feeling of real tension. It's very unsettling. That's why I love it so much. That sort of place is no longer there, and thank God. It made some great music, but let's not forget what else was going on there, too.
Q: So this is your first Top 10 album in the States.
A: Honestly, the projections for this - and I don't pay much attention to record-company speak or whatever, demographics and all that sort of nonsense - but they said beforehand that we would be lucky to be in the Top 40 and then the mid-week came in and they said, "Oh well, maybe we'll be Top 20.' Then finally, it came in at No. 9 and everybody was just completely gobsmacked. A U.S. Top 10 is a big deal for any band. It's not like just because we don't live here we don't understand how big a deal it is. We're pretty American pop-culture savvy.
Q: Does it seem harder for U.K. acts to crack the U.S. market than it used to be?
A: I think it is hard for U.K. bands. Maybe not so much U.K. singers with big songs, like Leona Lewis or Duffy, or someone where they have a kind of glamorous identity outside of the music itself. They have the Us Weekly sort of identity and the music identity as well, so it's like they sort of are very visible. But a band like us, nobody knows what we look like. And we're not courting that, either. But it's really just music fans that are buying our records. There's not really anyone else out there buying our records, which is great to get a Top 10 record with only the passionate people buying it."
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/2008/12/07/20081207snowpatrol.html?&wired

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great witchie! thx

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Thanks for all the interviews! So much out there for me to catch up on.

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I've found a few more I'll post a bit later today

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It’s Teenage Kicks for Snow Patrol as a classic studio celebrates

Ulster’s Snow Patrol celebrated the 75th birthday of the BBC's legendary Maida Vale studios yesterday by performing hits from decades gone by.

The band — playing tracks to represent the 1960s to 1990s — included a version of Undertones hit Teenage Kicks, a song close to their hearts.

The performance marked a day of live broadcasts from the historic venue, including dramas, music and speech.

Snow Patrol's choices were all songs which had been played in sessions recorded at Maida Vale over the years.

Teenage Kicks, released by The Undertones in 1978, was famously Radio 1 DJ John Peel's favourite song and gained notoriety when he showed his devotion by playing the song back to back.

Drummer Jonny Quinn explained the track had particular significance for him.

He said: “Three of us in the band grew up in Belfast, and it means a lot coming from when we grew up. It was about the only band people outside Northern Ireland would have known.

“I also worked for the record shop Good Vibrations, so it has a special meaning to me.”

The group also played INXS's New Sensation, You Really Got Me by The Kinks and Madonna's Ray Of Light during the Radio 1 Live Lounge session at the north-west London venue.

Frontman Gary Lightbody said it was an honour to play in the studio, which has also seen performances from the likes of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.



http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/itrsquos-teenage-kicks-for-snow-patrol-as-a-classic-studio-celebrates-14546346.html

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Do you like Snow Patrol? Fancy hanging out and watching the band prepare for their forthcoming UK tour? You could be one of only a few Xfm winners to be at a very intimate and exclusive Snow Patrol performance in Brighton on the eve of their sold-out 'Re-Worked' tour!

Yes, the 'Patrol (as nobody calls them) will be checking their tunings, digging into their back catalogue and rehearsing for their hits tour at a secret location in Brighton, on Tuesday November 17. And they love the Xfm crowd do much, they're giving away a stack of passes to watch them at work!

We have TEN PAIRS of tickets to give away on Xfm.co.uk, and there'll be another 15 pairs given away on air over the next two weekends (October 31-November 1 and November 7-8).

All you have to do is play Xfm's Snow Patrol Bad Photoshop Challenge. What that, we hear you cry? Simple. We've (very badly) put together a short gallery of five awful and tacky images.

Committing many crimes against Photoshop usage the world over, we've tried to pictorially represent a Snow Patrol song in each one. All you have to do is try and fathom what we're on about.

Take a look at the Bad Photoshop Gallery here.

Once you've worked out which song the picture is pathetically trying to evoke, select your answers and add your details in the form below. Then sit back and hope that you'll be one of the ten winners picked randomly to watch Gary Lightbody and crew at close quarters.

Competition closes at midday on Tuesday November 10. Winners must be aged 18 years and older. Full competition terms and conditions are here.

http://www.google.com.au/accounts/Logout2?hl=en-GB&service=mail&ilo=1&ils=s.AU%2Cs.ZW&ilc=0&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Faccounts%2FServiceLogin%3Fservice%3Dmail%26passive%3Dtrue%26rm%3Dfalse%26continue%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmail.google.com%252Fmail%252F%253Fui%253Dhtml%2526zy%253Dl%26bsv%3Dzpwhtygjntrz%26scc%3D1%26ltmpl%3Ddefault%26ltmplcache%3D2%26hl%3Den-GB&zx=386869020

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sorry that link should read www.xfm.co.uk/news/competitions/win-tickets-to-see-snow-patrol-rehearse

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Thanks everyone!!

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^^^ so annoyed I live on the other side of the world... :(

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RachaelY wrote:
^^^ so annoyed I live on the other side of the world... :(

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There should be a short interview with Jonny here, but I just can't get the link to work.
http://www.3fm.nl/page/3fm_uitzendinggemist/dag/zaterdag
Scroll down to 15:00 - 18:00 and click on 'vorige uitzending'. The interview will be all the way at the end of the show; I expect some 10 minutes before the end of the show, or even a bit later than that.

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I'll put this here as well as videos cos it is kinda both

Gary and Tom arriving at Q Awards 1.30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQXk_el3Zs

the Brit Awards 2007


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRhqTGS8pFg

and The Meteors

6.38 and 7.24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czH6fmhv5KQ

standard apologies if these have appeared before.

Anonymous Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol say their songs are more famous than they are, and love being able to walk around without being recognised.

Snow Patrol's fans don't recognise them.

The 'Run' hitmakers love being able to walk around unrecognised, despite selling millions of records around the world.

Frontman Gary Lightbody said: "Even our own fans would have trouble picking us out of a line-up. We're very lucky in that the songs are the famous things, so we can walk around anywhere unrecognised. We will be in a clothes shop with our songs playing on the radio and nobody even raises an eyebrow, even in the UK."

The quintet's biggest success came with the single 'Chasing Cars' and despite hearing it played on radio stations everywhere, Gary insists they never get tired of it.

He added: "I have never thought anything bad about 'Chasing Cars', ever. It's the most ubiquitous thing we've ever done, so it's probably due for our own personal backlash now. But it's our favourite son, daughter, whatever its sex is - why would we be angry? That song went around the world - we just followed it."

http://www.list.co.uk/article/21882-anonymous-snow-patrol/

Exclusive: I Won't Turn My Back On Scotland, Says Show Patrol's Gary Lightbody

SNOW PATROL frontman Gary Lightbody might have moved back to Belfast but says he will never quit Scotland for good.

The adopted Scot insists he has not turned his back on the country in which he first found stardom - and never will.

Gary said: "I still have a little place in Glasgow. I will never leave Glasgow fully. I will always have a big toe in the city because I adore the place. It gavemeeverything."

But Gary is thriving on the burgeoning music scene in Belfast, immersing himself in emerging talent and even launching his own publishing firm to help new acts and writers.

He said: "Belfast has had a massive impact on me and on the music I make. It's incredible there at the moment - it keepsme onmytoes all the time.

"There are so many younger bands around, just starting out and making music that is really extraordinary.

Strumthing special: Gary says Belfast music scene "C a t M e l o d i a n , Panama Kings, Lonely Nights, these people involved in that scene blow my mind. There are brilliant new bands coming up every week.

is buzzing "The list is endless - I could go on for 20 minutes naming bands there you would love. There is real quality so it is hard not to be inspired by it."

While his home city is a hotbed of talent, Gary doesn't feel it has toppled Glasgow as the centre of emerging music in the UK.

He said: "I would not say Belfast is taking over from Glasgow as it is a very young scene historically.

"The punk scene in the 70s and 80s gave us The Undertones and people like that but it never really settled into a flourishing countrywide scene as people were simply not allowed to have a social life in those days.

"It is only now people are able to do that - pubs are open late, there are loads of clubs and rehearsal rooms and bands have places to play.

"The country has a music scene now and I hope it lasts for a long time and gets better."

Gary is confident living among such a huge array of talents will make him a better writer and performer.

He said: "I feel enthused and refreshed by having this around me. If you are a musician, you cannot help but be inspired by the music being made right now.

"I have never seen a worldwide music scene that has such vibrancy, vigour and vitality, it's incredible. Anyone who says the music is not as good as it used to be is not paying attention.

"The recession has had an effect on it, times like that always have a big impact on creation.

"But you need something to kick against. The angrier people feel, the more reason they have to make art in the first place."

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-news/music-news/2009/11/01/exclusive-i-won-t-turn-my-back-on-scotland-says-show-patrol-s-gary-lightbody-78057-21789433/

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^ great read that Sprint.Stripes' rellies getting another mention too :)