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The Snow Patrol Thread

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  • Finally a new album from the band! Haven't heard the full album yet, just the 3 pre-released songs and they're great.

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you quoted your own reply lameass

 

So what?:rolleyes:

you should answer the question i asked you :rolleyes: lameass

 

Give me one reason why.......................... :rolleyes:

because the question is built to be anwered

 

Anwered??:confused:

I've just ordered my pre-sale ticket!!:cool:

 

Sure, they'll stop in Düsseldorf? :confused: Eventim.de currently mentions only one gig in Stuttgart.

Thanks for the link, but no gigs in North Germany! Shame! ;) But they have already been in Hamburg one month ago.

Thanks for the link' date=' but no gigs in North Germany! Shame! ;) But they have already been in Hamburg one month ago.[/quote']

 

You could visit Berlin again!!;)

You could visit Berlin again!!;)

 

I could but I'm not sooo addicted to Snow Patrol. ;) I Like their music, especially the last album, but I wouldn't spend so much money, just only to see them.

i just bought tickets for night #2 in nyc! :D YAAAYYY!!!!

oh wow they're coming to AUs in FEB i really want to see them live and to boot the howling bells are opening up for them!

 

who has seen them--- is it a great gig?

Did anyone go to their videoshoot in LA? It was pretty awesome being on set with the band for 4 hours. They're all such amazing and goofy guys.

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Ah TLo are you going to see them again?!?! Lucky Lucky!!!!

 

Wonder if Marisa is going again??

Snow Patrol @ M.E.N. Arena

 

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It's amazing, considering just how long Snow Patrol have been around, that their astonishing leap into music’s A-lister mainstream seems to have occurred merely in the blink of an eye.

 

Having paddled comfortably in the shallows of MOR indie whilst bigger, tougher cousins the likes of Coldplay tackled the perilous depths of notoriety and global domination, it seemed for all the world like Snow Patrol were contentedly sticking with their lot.

 

Until - to everyone’s surprise - carried on a tide that has risen ever higher since the release of epochal single Run, they made their break for the big-time.

 

And how they succeeded. Not only is tonight’s M.E.N. gig a sell-out – no mean feat given the venue’s overwhelming capacity – but what’s more, they’re returning to Manchester in a fortnight to play a double-bill at the G-Mex.

 

It is a situation which seems equally incredulous to front-man Gary Lightbody who, after a three-song intro which begins with a cacophonous medley and stadium-style light display and ends with play-list stalwart Final Straw, professes this to be their biggest ever gig.

 

He seems vaguely overwhelmed; yet the nervous energy and obvious euphoria with which he is charged serves only to heighten his performance.

 

Illuminated

 

Before a technicolour, illuminated backdrop of moving screens, flashing lights and dry ice, Snow Patrol conduct a show worthy of its venue.

 

The set comprises mainly recent album hits such as the radio success story that was Chasing Cars, but older and/or more obscure songs like Starfighter Pilot and the collaborative Reindeer Section project’s You’re My Joy make a welcome appearance.

 

All are executed with an irrepressible energy that sees Lightbody hopping around the stage like an agitated grasshopper, whilst admirably managing to remain in control of both guitar and voice.

 

Most recent single Set The Fire To The Third Bar sees Damien Rice’s sidekick Lisa Hannigan step into the absent Martha Wainwright’s shoes, a role she fills with all the beauty, poise and sheer talent for which she is renowned.

 

The highlight of the show is – unsurprisingly – a superlative rendition of Run, which despite making an appearance before the encore, has all the hallmarks of a climactic set-closer.

 

Lightbody’s vocal – which has, in previous times, struggled with the low register of this track – is flawless tonight.

 

Not that it matters, because the crowd sing loud enough to carry the song right to the end, in a magical conclusion befitting of a sterling performance.

 

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/livereviews/s/229/229617_snow_patrol__men_arena.html

^^^ aw. how come? if anyonedeserves it, would be you.

 

 

 

 

Ally, I'll be at the Detroit show. hope to see you there!

Snow Patrol @ NIA Birmingham

 

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This is a big week for Snow Patrol. On Sunday their fourth album, Eyes Open, was certified as the bestselling UK release of 2006, with sales of 1.2 million and counting.

 

On Tuesday the anthemic rock quartet ambled onstage to the deafening cheers of a capacity crowd at the cavernous NIA in Birmingham. “My God, this is the biggest place we’ve ever played!” proclaimed Gary Lightbody, the lead singer.

 

From Belfast via Glasgow, Snow Patrol have risen virtually without trace in their decade-long career. Their fuzzy-sweet, radio-friendly sound is pleasant enough but strangely anonymous and anodyne. Imagine Keane without their brooding sexual magnetism. Or an entire band of James Blunts.

 

But it is impossible to review Snow Patrol without invoking the C-word. Like Tony Blair, Lightbody is a Coldplay kind of guy. Like Chris Martin, he writes monumentally soppy anthems of romantic loss and existential unease, outwardly passionate but vague on emotional specifics. Both bands favour the kind of broad-brush, supersized sincerity that crosses cultural borders, which might explain why Eyes Open has been lodged in the US album chart for the past six months. Irony and ambiguity, those priceless base elements in much of the best British rock, are notable by their absence.

 

Coldplay comparisons were certainly hard to avoid in Birmingham during Somewhere a Clock is Ticking and How to be Dead, with their softly chiming guitars and politely yearning vocals. But as songwriters, Snow Patrol are simply not in the same league.

 

There were a handful of genuine show stoppers in the set, notably the former singles Chasing Cars and Run, each a colossal terrace chant built around a heart-swelling singalong chorus. But, for a band with four albums behind them, there were also far too many faceless, graceless, makeweight numbers.

 

For all their massive popularity, Snow Patrol still fiercely divide the critics. Many regard their evolution from indie nobodies to Coldplay-esque arena-fillers as proof of soulless, ruthless careerism. That is debatable, but Lightbody can undoubtedly irritate in his relentless attempts to appear sensitive and humble. There were many such moments in Birmingham when his grainy vibrato whine struck a gratingly false note. At their worst, Lightbody’s band are the musical equivalent of a Richard Curtis rom-com, their undeniable charms drowned out by cloying sentiment and calculated whimsy.

 

Of course, the broad church of pop has many vestibules. There is room enough for clean-cut choirboys such as Snow Patrol, Keane and Embrace in the congregation. All the same, a little more grit and wit may save Lightbody from perpetually being cast as Martin’s drippy understudy. Some songs sounded almost like happy-clappy Christian rock.

 

Rounding off their set with the polished angst of Open Your Eyes, Snow Patrol departed on a tidal wave of courteous, well-behaved hysteria. Their future is clearly bright. But being impressively huge is not the same as being hugely impressive.

 

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2478408,00.html

^^^ aw. how come? if anyonedeserves it, would be you.

 

 

 

 

Ally, I'll be at the Detroit show. hope to see you there!

 

Aw hehe, thanks!

 

Have fun when you see 'em!

^^^ aw. how come? if anyonedeserves it, would be you.

 

 

 

 

Ally, I'll be at the Detroit show. hope to see you there!

 

 

Aww im afraid i probley will not be there this time! I dont have anyone to go up with me and the tickets left are upper balcony! Im sad i wont be able to bask in the glory of snow patrol with you again. That is unless I can find some to go! Oh well!

Aww im afraid i probley will not be there this time! I dont have anyone to go up with me and the tickets left are upper balcony! Im sad i wont be able to bask in the glory of snow patrol with you again. That is unless I can find some to go! Oh well!

 

 

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oh no. I hope you find someone. It wont be the same! I will personally sneak you down onto the floor if I have to. But maybe they will still add an Ohio date, Nathan better keep his word!

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oh no. I hope you find someone. It wont be the same! I will personally sneak you down onto the floor if I have to. But maybe they will still add an Ohio date, Nathan better keep his word!

 

 

Haha thats what I said!!! When the dates came out I was like Nathan No!!!! He promised!!!!! I know I really wanna go see them again they were beyond amazing!!!!! I guess I better start looking hard core for someone!

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