Unless my eyes are tricking me, I don't see any pics.....

 

 

 

 

About 2 or 3 hours is good enough to get within the first few rows of the stage. But it depends on the venue. Are you seeing them soon, Brazzo?

 

ha...i got it. well...i don't think they will play in my country in recent year. it's not easy invite such a big band to here.:( hope i will see them in somewhere. so jealous you guys could see them.

I was in the second row yesterday and the concert was... horrible. Not because of the band but because of the crowd.

It was just so wrong. At one point I cried and I wasn't sure whether it was because they were playing one of my favourite songs or because I just didn't want to be there.

 

(Oh... and isn't it strange how good-looking Gary is in real life?? I was shocked.)

I was in the second row yesterday and the concert was... horrible. Not because of the band but because of the crowd.

It was just so wrong. At one point I cried and I wasn't sure whether it was because they were playing one of my favourite songs or because I just didn't want to be there.

 

(Oh... and isn't it strange how good-looking Gary is in real life?? I was shocked.)

 

What was wrong with the crowd? :stunned:

They were excellent in Duesseldorf!!

It consisted only of mainstream radio listeners and teenage fangirls (alright I'm a teenager, girl and a fan as well but that's not what I mean) and it just felt like I really didn't belong there.

Worst of all was the American behind me screaming into my ear all the time, hurting my shoulder and asking "What the fuck is wrong with you Germans!"

I just wanted to smash her face. All the time.

 

I just really wish I'd have gone and seen them here last year.

I think you shouldn't dwell on the fact that the crowd around you wasn't your idea of real fans. And crying about it? Come on. That's not going to do anything about it. I think you should have just enjoyed the music and forgot about those around you. Although the person yelling mean things isn't called for at all. That's rude.

 

 

Can you honestly say you didn't like it at all?

Forgetting about it was a bit hard considering I heard the woman behind me a lot louder than the music.

 

 

Oh yes, I did like it. It just depressed me a lot. Probably personal problems if me and my friend just can't deal with it. That sounds a lot more ironic than I mean it. I seriously think it shouldn't bother me but it does. People I despise liking my favourite music. I should have gotten over it by now, with Coldplay and all.

 

Well, on a positive approach: it was rather emotional.

And I actually got Gary's plectrum, so it was worth it.

(No I'm kidding, it was also worth it because I got to hear some of my favourite songs and sometimes when I tried and closed me eyes and the woman forgot the lyrics for a second it was very close to bliss)

I never had watched Grey's Anatomy since a week ago and i noticied that in the two episodes that i've seen, sounds two tracks by SP. (You could be happy) and (Chasing cars).

 

Had you noticied that? I didn't knew it. Good.

Going to see them in Auckland on Thursday :D

I never had watched Grey's Anatomy since a week ago and i noticied that in the two episodes that i've seen, sounds two tracks by SP. (You could be happy) and (Chasing cars).

 

Had you noticied that? I didn't knew it. Good.

 

 

Yup! They keep getting played on Grey's. I am ever informed because my roomies run to get me shouting " MARISA! SNOW PATROL. RIGHT NOW, COME HERE!" And of course I go to watch a little. ( to be honest, I'm not a fan of the show, too dramatic and Grey gets on my nerves, but each to their own)

 

 

Invisibleman18, do come back and give us a review, please! Have a blast!

I'm seeing them next Tuesday at the KeyArena and I'm kind of dreading how crappy the Key will make them sound. If the Key can ruin Death Cab's AND Coldplay's sound, it's hard to think Snow Patrol booked that venue. At the same time, though, I'm looking forward to an energized show... where I'll know more lyrics too. Hahaha!

I'm seeing them next Tuesday at the KeyArena and I'm kind of dreading how crappy the Key will make them sound. If the Key can ruin Death Cab's AND Coldplay's sound, it's hard to think Snow Patrol booked that venue. At the same time, though, I'm looking forward to an energized show... where I'll know more lyrics too. Hahaha!

 

Aww! Sorry to hear that. Let's hope you don't get screwy sound. Third time's a charm? And it's so soon! Seriously, have an amazing time, Lifelight (what's your real name?) :D

 

 

EEEEEP. 39 more days for Detroit! Still can't believe how fast it's come up.

Ally, oh Ally? Where are you? Are you getting ready for it? :laugh3:

Yup!

Invisibleman18, do come back and give us a review, please! Have a blast!

 

Cheers. I will of course come back with a review, and hopefully some reasonable pics too.

 

Support acts are a couple of NZ bands. 'Tourist' who I've not heard of, and 'Evermore' who are very good.

Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes

 

 

It’s been an exceptional album campaign for Snow Patrol. With ‘Open Your Eyes’ now drawing the promotion of their huge chart-skewering album ‘Eyes Open’ to an end, the dust is slowly settling to reveal a band standing tall as Britain’s Biggest.

 

Not at all bad for a bunch of cult indie popsters who were teetering on the verge of splitting up beneath a cloud of utter disinterest barely two albums ago. It’s an exceptional turn around of fortunes and ‘Open Your Eyes’ shows precisely how far they’ve come.

 

Well and truly gone is the quirkiness and art-school alt-rock leanings of old, replaced in spades by huge choruses, sing-along verses made for stadium crowds and moneyed production. It’s a glorious progression from two-bit indie chancers to chart-topping Brit rock heroes and Snow Patrol’s position at the top of the rock tree looks unlikely to be truly tested until Chris Martin considers his return.

 

http://www.thedownloader.co.uk/release.php?id=3022

Aww! Sorry to hear that. Let's hope you don't get screwy sound. Third time's a charm? And it's so soon! Seriously, have an amazing time, Lifelight (what's your real name?) :D

 

Hopefully! I'll make the best of it, in any case. I still managed to enjoy Coldplay and Death Cab there. I think the key (haha!) to having a good concert at the Key is to be energetic. Takes the crowd's mind off the terrible acoustics!

 

And you can call me Siggy, if you want. :3333

Snow Patrol secret is out

 

IRISH rock band Snow Patrol were one of those best kept secrets in Australia until the power of television elevated them to Coldplay's heir apparent.

 

Chasing Cars, a single from their breakthrough chart-topping album, Eyes Open, was propelled into anthem status after featuring as the music bed for the emotionally wrought finale of last season's Grey's Anatomy.

 

But last night, the band's biggest Australian crowd at the Hordern Pavilion, proved to be fans of so much more of Snow Patrol's repertoire from the U2-esque stadium moment Run through to more recent tunes as Hands Open, You're All I Have and Shut Your Eyes, a song intentionally written to be sung at full voice by an adoring crowd.

 

And this motley crowd of backpackers, true believers and Johnny-come-latelys

helped an energetic but flu-ridden band rise to the occasion.

 

After a day of rest on doctor's orders, frontman Gary Lightbody -surely, the

romantic musical poet of the moment - was in fine voice and obviously delighted by the crowd's bonhomie.

 

The audience was louder than Snow Patrol, the most in-tune and up-for-it crowd at the Hordern at least in 2007, and many fans were heard - and you could hear them clearly - to complain about the lack of volume and bottom end on the night. An unusual complaint in Sydney in recent months but a valid one.

 

Whatever the technical hitches, Snow Patrol made up for it in enthusiasm and appreciation of the audience’s efforts and delivered a mighty fine show.

 

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21262245-5001026,00.html

Unless my eyes are tricking me, I don't see any pics.....

 

 

 

 

About 2 or 3 hours is good enough to get within the first few rows of the stage. But it depends on the venue. Are you seeing them soon, Brazzo?

 

I had to get to the venue for Midday to get a front row place.

 

True it was a one-day festival and I had to stand though some rubbish bands. :lol:

I'm leaving in half an hour for tonight's show :D

Just got back.

Absolutely amazing!

Will write a bit more tomorrow when it's not all a blur.

So I left home at 3.30, hoping to get there about 4.15-4.30 and be able to park somewhere. As it happened, traffic on the motorway was a bit of a nightmare and I crawled along at snail pace, eventually getting to the stadium at 5. Fortunately there was still parking available at the stadium for $5 so that was all good.

Doors finally opened at 6 and they told us strictly no cameras allowed, and they were taking them off people so I went and left mine in the car, thought that was safer than risking not getting it back at all. I could've taken it in in my pocket and noone would've known, and I sort of wish I did. But, security in there was insane and they had people around the whole arena pointing laser pointers wherever a flash went off until someone made there way there and took the camera away. When we pay good money to go, it's a little disappointing we can't take a couple of pics to remember it by, but ah well. They also wouldn't allow any food or drink in and even took my bottle of water off me. Good profit making by them I guess as it was so hot in there, you had to buy a drink.

 

I did have a slightly annoying post in my view when I got to my seat, but it wasn't that bad, was still a pretty good seat. Of course the guy who came and sat next to me might have considered buying 2 seats just for himself :lol: but he left halfway through, or went to stand/sit elsewhere I don't know. So first on stage at 7 was an NZ band called 'Tourist' who I'd never heard of. They were alright, just your average small time rock band. Main criticism was that their music was much too loud and you couldn't easily decipher 1 word of their lyrics. But some of their tunes were not bad so they were a reasonable opening considering the place was still probably only a 3rd full. They stayed on until about 7.30, by which time the place was starting to fill as everyone knew 'Evermore,' another NZ band were coming on at 8. They are very big here, and are quite well known elsewhere too having had 2 or 3 songs feature on 'The OC.' I thought they were brilliant, well worth the money by themselves. They put on a great show, and their best song 'Light Surrounding You' was for me one of the highlights of the whole night. Quite interesting looking guys :lol: To look at them, you would think they are more likely a physics PHD class Chess team than a Rock Band, but they are very good. So they stayed on until about 8.45, and Snow Patrol were coming on at 9 so this left enough time to find the toilets and get out of the main arena for a few minutes, it was absolutely sweating in there. Came across the merchandise they were selling so I bought the official tour book. Bit of a rip off for $20 as it's just pictures, but I like to keep a program from anything I go to like this. Would have liked one of the t-shirts but they did cost $40. While I was there, the Evermore guys turned up and started speaking to people etc, so it was good to seem them getting out amongst the crowd.

 

Once it got to 9pm, the lights went out and the opening to 'Spitting Games' started playing with a spectacular lights show on the stage and then Snow Patrol came out to a roaring crowd. After a couple of songs Gary made his intro and he seemed quite a good speaker too. He joked about the minor earthquakes there had been the day before. "You always think of New Zealand as a safe haven, somewhere you will always be safe. And then we arrived and found out there were 48 volcanoes, and there were 3 earthquakes yesterday! What the f**ks going on?" :lol:

They were putting on a great show and Gary was also very entertaining in between songs. At one point he talked about how they were going to do the 'Sky Jump' off the Sky Tower the next day, or rather "tomorrow we are going to jump off a building, you know that tall one with the small donut on top? Apparently you can throw yourself off it." 'Beginning to get to me' which is not usually a favourite of mine was excellent, one of the highlights. Gary also blanked out at the end of one song, I think it was 'How to be dead' and didn't sing the last couple of lines or so. He said he was just thinking how great this was going and how awesome the crowd was then suddenly "sh*t, what the hell are the words?" and called it a 'unique New Zealand performance of that song.' He then dedicated 'Grazed Knees' to the 2 NZ support bands, and then came 'Chasing Cars' which as expected got the loudest screams and was awesome. As there was of course no Martha Wainwright or a female backup, he decided to do 'Set the Fire to the Third bar' by himself for the 'first time ever' and called up some guy, I think he called him their 'drum tech' or something to play guitar. Another 'unique performance for NZ,' although he's probably done it before. Eventually we got to 'Run' which was of course one of the main highlights for me, although it didn't seem to get great screams from the crowd like CC did. However the big highlight for me I think was 'You're All I have' which is one of my favourites , it was last, before the encore. At least, that was the one I left humming and then singing in the car :lol:

 

The crowd were screaming for an encore, and the band didn't disappoint. Came out and played another 4 songs, including 'Hands Open' that I hadn't expected to hear given the setlists I'd seen on the internet so that was a nice suprise. But I guess they added it because they left out a couple of the older songs that seem to have only been played in the UK/Europe.

Anyway, really amazing show. Was my first ever gig (unless you count Cliff Richard with my parents when I was about 10 :lol:) and the next one will have a lot to live up to.

 

 

Setlist:

Spitting Games

Wow

Chocolate

Beginning To Get To Me

Headlights

How To Be Dead

Grazed Knees

Chasing Cars

Shut Your Eyes

Set The Fire To The Third Bar

Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking

Make This Go On Forever

Ways And Means

Run

You're All I Have

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Finish Line

Open Your Eyes

Hands Open

Tiny Little Fractures

 

Pics from my phone to come later

 

Apologies if this was too long or boring.

Snow Patrol are headlining T in the park! And Isle of wight as well! :D I can't go to either!!!!!!! :cry: No money:(

 

http://www.tinthepark.com/

 

fooooking GREAT line up this year!!! I'm gutted!!!

 

Killers, Kasabian, Razorlight, Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park, Kings of Leon, Bloc Party.......ARCADE FIRE!:cry: :cry:

To me,Snow Patrol is just your average alternative-poser band,who's sound is just completely unoriginal. Can't stand them really

Invisibleman18, thanks so much for the report! Loved reading all the details. A solo "Set Fire To the Third Bar"!? Wonderful! I love the interaction Gary gives to the crowd. And it's great to see "Hands Open" on the setlist. :cool:

 

 

Aw Jen! I'm sorry you can't make it. That is an AMAZING lineup. Damn. I wish I could go. Just not possible! How about if I win the lottery before then I promise to buy yours and my way to both? I can dream right?:laugh3:

 

 

hay LAZY, please explain your reasons for that unfortunate opinion.....I highly suspect you have only heard the latest SP album....

To me,Snow Patrol is just your average alternative-poser band,who's sound is just completely unoriginal. Can't stand them really

 

And you felt the need to broadcast this to a thread full of fans?

he has the right to give his opinion but but you're right.

if you're going to criticize their music, back it up for crying out loud, don't just say that without giving details and not expect fans to jump on you :dozey:

 

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i really love fire to the third bar atm, can't get enough of this track :P

my sis was just watching the Live At Somerset House dvd. i love that dvd. :nice: it's so funny when the random dude jumps up on the stage. :D