March 28, 200719 yr u kno what i love? i love when ure standing in front of gary.. he looks at you.. sees you singing along with the words.. and smiles really retardedly wide at you :D :) :mad: He did that? Aww! yay! I can't wait to hear about it all! Good idea Ally. haha. I'll bringing an extra battery and extra storage too. It sucks though, the weather that is. It was so nice now it's back to cold. And it looks like 50s for Sunday. I'm going to be freezing my ass off! omg. I can't believe it's so close. Need to get so much done before I leave. F'in school!
March 29, 200719 yr My letter was delivered last night!! Thus far, I've only heard he has photographic proof. When he returns, I'll obviously have more details... BUT EXCITING. (Do you think they read it? I hope they did. D: )
March 29, 200719 yr so smoke machines are my kodak's worse enemies.. thus i didnt even attempt to take taht many pictures.. here are some though :) here are the rest of the very few pics: i took a couple vids.. that havent been uploaded yet.. but will geton that soon :)
March 29, 200719 yr WOW! You were really close! You lucky person. D: Next time I see them, I will strive to get as close as that. :]
March 29, 200719 yr Live: Snow Patrol Really Care About Romantically Frustrated Medical Students Snow Patrol + OK Go Theater at Madison Square Garden March 27, 2007 As if you had a choice We've been mired in an exceedingly bizarre period for commercial rock music for more than fifteen years now. Decadent glamor, once rock's stock-in-trade, became deeply unfashionable during the ascetic grunge years, and nothing has really come along to replace it since. And so now the only people who capable of selling large quantities of rock records are pre-grunge holdouts like U2, self-aware self-parodists like Fall Out Boy, and turgid, scowling bores like Daughtry and Nickelback. And then there are the soundtrack content-providers, the wave of anonymous purveyors of swooning, sighing nice-guy gloop that rose up in the wake of Coldplay. These guys might've been the ones James Murphy was talking about when he ranted to me about bands accepting mediocrity and placidly shrugging their way into middling placeholder status. Snow Patrol is a textbook example, a Glasgow-based band who started out gigging around with twee indie-pop fixtures like Belle and Sebastian before moving on to writing sweet, crashing MOR guitar-pop lighter-wavers and gradually blowing the fuck up in America after the soundtrack coordinators at Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill simultaneously picked "Chasing Cars" for prime montage placement in their respective season finales. In a lot of ways, Snow Patrol is a very utilitarian band, content to fade into the background and make sweeping, dramatic noises to accompany sweeping, dramatic slow-motion crane-shots. Nobody argues about who their favorite member of Snow Patrol is; the band is pretty much just made up of charmingly self-effacing frontman Gary Lightbody and a bunch of guys in black shirts who stand off to the side of the stage. And yet this band is big enough to fill up the Theater at Madison Square Garden two nights running, a development that I wouldn't exactly say is good for pop music. But complicating matters is the fact that I really like Snow Patrol. Their grandly nonsensical tearjerker power-ballad "Run" is maybe my favorite rock single of the past couple of years, and they have a slick way of making their epic swells sound weirdly human and vulnerable. Lightbody can't quite hit the high notes he strives for, and so he lets his voice quiver and crack and whimper, so it feels like he's getting trampled under the band's epic glissandos rather than triumphantly riding their crests. Snow Patrol manages the neat trick of sounding simultaneously big and small, overwhelming and approachable. Maybe they're not doing pop music any favors, but I'm pulling for them anyway. And so I was among the charmed thousands at MSG last night, waving my cellphone and singing along horribly just like every other jerk there. Lightbody seems to perfectly understand all the particulars of his band's appeal perfectly, and so he kept breaking the momentum between songs to keep the neurotic stage patter coming. Per Jason Lee in Almost Famous, there's no "guitarist with the mystique" in Snow Patrol; there's just four musicians hiding in the shadows and letting Lightbody hold everyone's attention all night. Lightbody is Irish, but he's a student of the Hugh Grant school of nervous comedic chatter, keenly aware that anyone with an accent can get away with all manner of theatrical modesty over here. And maybe the modesty wasn't even false; maybe he's seriously genuinely touched that a big room full of drunk office slaves would be so amped to shout along with "Chasing Cars"; it doesn't particularly matter. Either way, there's nothing elitist about Lightbody's cheap-seats humility. He might've dropped Sufjan Stevens' name in a recent lyric, but he knows he doesn't have a thing to do with indie-pop anymore. He's a total pro, and so is the lighting director who used a wall of color-changing lights behind them to create the abstract patterns that undulated gorgeously behind Lightbody. The band makes a few nods toward the smaller clubs of their past; maybe they learned the post-krautrock pulse of "Shut Your Eyes" from Stereolab, for instance. But they're now in the business of huge, weeping post-Coldplay power-ballads, and they pull those off more consistently than even Coldplay does anymore. With a huge soundsystem behind them, their towering hooks pick up even more steam; after an hour and a half, I was just about flattened. For people in commercial rock bands, grateful humility is a difficult thing to project. If they don't allow themselves to appear confident enough, they'll disappear completely. But if they let themselves appear too confident, they'll come off like a bunch of smarmy dicks. Snow Patrol might've managed to walk the razor-thin line all evening long, but openers OK Go were another story. If Snow Patrol owe their fame to Grey's Anatomy, OK Go owe whatever fame they might have to their two clumsily charming and incongruous music videos in which the members of the band all struggle through goofy choreographed dances. I really like those videos; they turn their major-label power-pop journeyman subjects into sympathetic underdogs, frantically throwing themselves into something they must know they won't be particularly good at. Onstage, though, the band radiates an unearned swagger, the exact opposite of those videos' goofy charms. They stand stock-still, blank-facedly yelping out their endlessly benign sub-Fountains of Wayne bash-pop and rocking embarrassingly outdated hipster-uniforms like they were extras in Swingers or some shit. They further dilute their already deeply unconvincing noisy/shreddy guitar solos with plinky pianos and halfassed ahh-ahh backup harmonies, and between songs they make fun of defenseless targets like the two people who fell down the venue's stairs at the previous night's shows. OK Go became vaguely famous by (inadvertently?) creating an underdog persona for themselves, and now they're walking around like they're hot shit; there's nothing quite so galling as a band who does that. Snow Patrol could go on to sell a bazillion more records, and I don't think they'd turn into douchebags. They're the Melinda Doolittles of this rock shit, and that might even be a compliment. http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2007/03/live_snow_patro.php
March 29, 200719 yr TLo those are awesome!!!!! 2 more days until I get to see them!!! Im so excited!!!! Marisa its so close!!!!!
March 30, 200719 yr Brilliant pics TLo. They wouldn't allow cameras in when I went. They wouldn't allow them in my concert too, but people still got them in. I stuffed mine in my pants and waltzed right on in... they didn't search pockets either. Hrmmmm...
March 30, 200719 yr my trick of stuffing it in a pile of pads always works.. :sneaky: haha but they didn't really check.
March 30, 200719 yr my trick of stuffing it in a pile of pads always works.. :sneaky: haha but they didn't really check. I've never tried that because I don't carry a bag... I must try it just to see if it works. But the pants has so far always worked. Except one time I put my camera in the pocket of a trenchcoat and walked right into a venue. Twice. It was spectacular.
March 30, 200719 yr Hey guys, didn't know if you found this yet. New Snow Patrol song for the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack. Snow Patrol- Signal Fire http://streamos.wbr.com/qtime/wbr/snowpatrol/audio/snowpatrol_001_signal-fire_128.mov
March 30, 200719 yr Conditions are always right for pop with Snow Patrol Frontman Gary Lightbody led Snow Patrol in concert at Agganis Arena on Wednesday. When the band played "Shut Your Eyes," fans heeded Lightbody's call to close their eyes and sing to him. (ERIK JACOBS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE) "This song is for everybody," said Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody , before playing "Chocolate" in concert on Wednesday. Let's hear it for truth in advertising. Like "Chasing Cars" -- the ardent, career-making tune used in last year's season finale of "Grey's Anatomy" -- "Chocolate" is high-class pop for the people: winsome enough for co eds and lovers, ambient enough for modern-rock aficionados, and packed with romantic verse that anyone in possession of a beating heart can grok. Transparency works for the Glaswegian quintet, whose musical approach to epic emotions is both unabashed and humble. The stage backdrop resembled an enormous switchboard -- a fabulous, and perhaps unintentional, visual metaphor -- with a thousand tiny bulbs lit by Snow Patrol's button-pushing anthems. A few of the songs felt legitimately grand. "Make This Go On Forever" began as a cockeyed piano ballad and grew into a booming, beautifully layered beast. "Shut Your Eyes" mesmerized with whirring keyboards and coiled guitars until 6,400 fans heeded Lightbody's call to "shut your eyes and sing to me." A too-brief glimpse of a gutsy, edgy Snow Patrol came during "Headlights on Dark Roads," which Lightbody dedicated to the evening's nervier opening bands OK Go and Silversun Pickups , and where he nobly confessed, "For once I want to be the car crash." Alas, Snow Patrol is the seat belt . Predictable swells and iconic hooks colored much of the 90-minute set in pale shades of Coldplay and U2. The trio of sweet, pummeling songs that closed down the show -- "You're All I Have," "Open Your Eyes," and "Hands Open" -- could have been lost tracks from any number of mainstream mid-'90s alt-rockers: the Gin Blossoms , or Better Than Ezra , or Goo Goo Dolls . Like the precursors whose influence is a bit too plain to hear, Snow Patrol brings safe, quality product to the masses. And if the music never quite achieves liftoff, it's not a problem. There's always another hit television show to get the job done. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/conditions_are_always_right_for_pop_with_snow_patrol/
March 31, 200719 yr Gorgeous pics, TLo, you are such a shutterbug. I know. I hate smoke machines! They give me ugly pictures too. Glad to see you got to the front row though. Was it a massive stage? Well, it's tomorrow, Ally! Bring an umbrella or poncho though, it's supposed to thunderstorm :( and gusty winds. I have a feeling I'll be soaked by the time the doors open.
March 31, 200719 yr Aww man Marisa!!! Rain sucks big time!! Oh well tommorow it is , Im stoaked!!!! I will see you tommorow!!!!!!
April 1, 200719 yr Well, it's tomorrow, Ally! Bring an umbrella or poncho though, it's supposed to thunderstorm :( and gusty winds. I have a feeling I'll be soaked by the time the doors open. I feel your pain! I had to stand in the rain and cold waiting for my nanny's friend to come. I was so cold I had to jump up and down singing to warm up. I wasn't embarrassed, just freeeezingggg. D: Bring something really really warm, like a thermos of hot cocoa. :D
April 1, 200719 yr It's Today Marisa!!!!!!!!! I will see you in a few short happy hours!!!!!! Bring on Snow Patrol!!!!
April 2, 200719 yr Ok I made it home!!! The show was honest to goodness amazing!!! I loved every minute of it and it went by way to fast as always! I am off to bed, full report coming in the later morning!
April 4, 200719 yr Ok here is my report! SOrry for taking so long!!!! Sorry if its a bit long!!!! Silverspoon pickups played and well they were ok. Then came Ok Go and they were awesome! The lead singer is so funny and they totally rocked out and got us ready for what was yet to come. Finally around 9:30 Snow Patrol took the stage. They were right on all night. Gary was so funny all night long. * Gary saying how he is upset with the drummer of Ok Go because he touched him inappropriately by coming into their dressing room after the show and giving him a great job smack. In which Gary then said and it hurt im just a lil fragile Irish guy ( something along those lines) * Gary Dedicated Run to Pablo * The April Fools joke of the drum tech coming on stage dressed in drag wanting to sing Set Fire to the Third Bar. * Someone told Gary to play more music in which he told them that he would talk as much as he f *$^&@! wanted cause its his stage. Then saying im going to keep on talking just because you want me to stop! * Gary telling everyone how he breathed out instead of taking a breath right when the verse started. And saying how he almost passed out from it. The proceeding to tell the audience if anyone knows the lyrics just come on up then and finsh the set, the band will just play! Soon the show came to an end and I waited outside and got to meet the guys again! They are such sweethearts! Got my picture with 4 of them and had nice chats with them and their tour manager. My mom said "Gary I have one question for you" in which he replies "I dont know who shot JFK". He also then told me never to tell Nathan anything as he always forgets ( I told Nathan to come to Ohio last time i saw them). I then talked to Jonny in which he told me his arm is all better now and that he has no plans in the future to go snowboarding again. I also got to meet Pablo, and I actually heard him speak! (The one time I met him before he didnt talk). When I asked him for a picture he goes ok and then mumbles something that i couldnt really understand other than face, arse, and but its ok. lol Then Nathan came out and my mom goes oh is that the one you like so much, practically right in front of him! Chatted with him a while in which I told him i was upset with him for not coming to Ohio. Then i proceeded to tell him that Gary told me not to tell him anything. Nathan replied "its true im a liar, im a patholical liar" He then said how they arent suppose to tell anyone no so he said "ok so someday we will come to Ohio hows that?!" And that was about it for the night!!! it was a great time and a great show!!!! Im sure Marisa will chime in here too so! Marisa what the heck you totally disappeared and then you were gone!!! Thanks for saying good-bye!! gosh!
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