WELL...whatever...i just love those endless repeated lines...etc..;)

 

Well they certainly help created a great atmosphere at the concerts with everyone singing along!:D

Nicky Wire: 'Snow Patrol are Britain's most hated band'

 

Manic Street Preacher has harsh words for V Festival co-headliners

 

17.Aug.07 10:45am

Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire has told NME.COM he'll be avoiding this year's V Festival co-headliners Snow Patrol.

 

The Welsh trio are set to play the Channel 4 Stage over the weekend (August 18,19) but the bassist will not be making time to catch the Scottish-based band's performance ahead of Foo Fighters on the main stage.

 

"Snow Patrol is the biggest divide in Britain. They're probably the biggest band in Britain, but they're also the most hated," he declared. "It's a weird dichotomy for them. They are utterly deplorable, there is something unredeemingly utterly shit about them, you just cannot put one's finger on.

 

"It's a desperate form of music, the endless repeated lines, over and over, the same drab fucking little thing on and on and on. They're the great losers turned into the great winners, that's their redemption. I won't be watching them."

 

I can't believed it. But I think peoples have different opinion, so if peoples are hate the band... It's alright, its only an opinion... Basically I really love them because of the songs:cool:

Well they certainly help created a great atmosphere at the concerts with everyone singing along!:D

 

yep yep...like Open Your Eyes...:D

DOUBLE TROUBLE: Snow Patrol are coming to New Zealand for the second time this year.

 

Snow Patrol have struck a rich vein of fantastic songwriting in the last five years. Matt Davey reports.

 

It all comes down to hard work – it's a well-worn attribute rolled out when there's no obvious explanation for someone's success. References to hard work and persistence appear regularly in the biography of Scots-Irish rock group, Snow Patrol – particularly in relation to the band's early days, which saw them play hundreds of modestly attended gigs and make two underachieving albums in the late '90s.

 

Stories like these, which focus on Snow Patrol's struggles, tend to ignore the obvious – that the band have struck a rich vein of fantastic songwriting in the last five years. Coupled with good timing and a little luck, the rise and rise of Snow Patrol has been unstoppable.

 

But will success take its toll? I had telephone interviews with two members of Snow Patrol, bass player Paul Wilson and guitarist Nathan Connolly. The first interview is unsympathetically scheduled by the record company – I wake up Wilson early in the morning in his residence in Glasgow. It takes him a couple of minutes to gather himself and shake off his slumber.

 

"I'm feeling a bit jetlagged, sorry," he croaks.

 

"We've just got back from an American tour, I don't travel too well and none of the jetlag medication works for me. I got back a couple of days ago but my body still hasn't readjusted to being at home. I feel awful – give me a couple of minutes, and I'll try to wake up".

 

Wilson proceeds to talk about their 2007 American tour – a 24-date venture which included shows at famous venues such as The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Memorial Hall, Kansas City and Red Rocks, Colorado. The latter venue is closely associated with U2, whose popularity in America began in earnest with their live concert at Red Rocks, Under a Blood Red Sky in 1983. Images of Bono striding across the Red Rocks stage with a white flag still abound. Wilson is embarrassed, however, by suggestions that Snow Patrol, like Coldplay in 2005, are walking in the footprints of U2. Snow Patrol's association with U2 runs strong – they supported U2 in 2005, following the belated success of the Final Straw album.

 

"We all have the greatest respect for Bono and the rest of the band; although I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are an influence on us. It's more to do with the integrity with which the band conduct themselves and their willingness to change direction with each album, regardless of fashion. We loved touring with them on their Vertigo tour – and it gave us a chance to play in front of huge audiences."

 

Both Wilson and Connolly, who I speak to from London a little later, speak with a modesty which belies their current status and worldwide popularity. New Zealand is one of three countries – the others being the UK and Australia – which saw Eyes Open debut at No. 1 in the album chart. It was the biggest- selling album in the UK in 2006, racking up 1.6 million sales, while America has chalked up over a million sales, mainly off the back of Chasing Cars, which appeared on the popular TV drama, Grey's Anatomy.

 

The fact that Chasing Cars, the best-known moment on Eyes Open, is a ballad runs against the current of what is Snow Patrol's rockiest recording to date. Big blustering power pop songs such as Hands Open and You Are All I Have form the basis of the album, punctuated by the quieter, reflective pieces like Shut Your Eyes and Chasing Cars. What is clear, too, is that almost all elements of indie fluffiness which marked their formative years have been blown away. Gone is the lightweight sound of albums like 1998's Songs for Polarbears – a direction which found them collaborating with the likes of Belle and Sebastian in the Scottish collective, The Reindeer Section.

 

Wilson is used to being asked about Chasing Cars – it's a favourite song and contains a certain magic and poignancy.

 

"Like many songs on the album, the lyrics have a lot to do with a break-up that Gary (Lightbody, the band's singer) was going through. It captures the romantic anguish that he was feeling I suppose – although the song will mean different things to different people," says Wilson.

 

"It certainly has a wonderful melody and the music helps the song strike a deeply felt note. We were lucky, too, that it got played on Grey's Anatomy. It suited the scenes in the finale and stuck in people's heads. Yes, we are very proud of that song."

 

Two other crucial elements in the making of Eyes Open were the choice of producer and the location of its making. The initial writing sessions of the album were conducted in Dingle on the west coast of Ireland. Drummer Jonny Quinn, an Irishman (as is Lightbody), knew the area well and found a remote cottage once used by Kate Bush, perched on the cliff tops. The studio provided a suitable setting for the songs to stew and take shape and, coupled with a monastic approach to writing, a moody sense of isolation colours the songs.

 

An inspired choice of producer also resulted in a clear, uncluttered sound, courtesy of Irish studio wizard, Jacknife Lee. A big beat/ electronic musician by trade, Lee brought a crispness to their sound, running contrary to the padded productions of Steve Lillywhite, the choice of many bands.

 

Guitarist Nathan Connolly, who lives in London, sounds in better shape than his fellow band member, Wilson. When I speak to him he has ambivalent feelings towards the recent tour to America.

 

"To be honest the whole experience was extremely trying. The shows are great and the fans are really into it but the constant pressure of promoting and being on the move all the time becomes tiresome. We often get asked about America and its politics abroad but we try to stay right out of that.

 

"New Zealand is a place we are looking forward to coming back to. People treated us well last time and we felt a close kinship with the New Zealand fans that have bought our albums."

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4180076a1860.html

i only realized today that "final straw" is a very good album :nice: maybe i even like it better than "eyes open", dunno yet ^^

i only realized today that "final straw" is a very good album :nice: maybe i even like it better than "eyes open", dunno yet ^^

 

So why the delay?:rolleyes:

dunno, i think i just hadn't really listened to it before, only to some songs. but tonight i was on the train for an hour so i had time to listen closely, hehe.

dunno, i think i just hadn't really listened to it before, only to some songs. but tonight i was on the train for an hour so i had time to listen closely, hehe.

 

Was it because you'd been spending too much time listening to Tokio Hotel?:rolleyes:

hmmmmm... no. but i'm spending much time listening to shout out louds and travis these days. never really got into snow patrol so far, but who knows...

Thanks for posting that article busybeebums. I'll be at the Auckland show on 14th September. :)

I prefer Hands Open and Final straw than Songs For Polar Bears

Went to the Auckland show last night. That was so absolutely amazing! And we had awesome front row seats!

Will post more of a review and loads of photos sometime shortly.

Got to meet Iain Archer and his support band afterwards too. :)

Lucky you Alex,was the tracklist any good?

i found out last wednesday they were going to be in brisbane the coming wednesday. fully last minute so i went to ticketek to get tickets and surprisingly there were heaps left. anyway was left with the dilemma of who to bring, then decided not to go, like i was sort of 50/50-ish but i decided to pass lol indecision is horrible lol

 

however, i'm glad you had a great time Alex :D

Bit of a review then.

 

Got there with my mate as the doors had just opened at 6.30. I decided to splash out on the tour t-shirt with the dates on the back etc. $45NZ so it was pretty steep but it's a one time thing and a good memory. Last time I got the "tour program" which was just a book of pictures so a real rip off.

 

So we join the queue to get in and our tickets scanned up with some error message and we were told to go to the ticket office as we couldn't get in with these tickets. So this was slightly worrying, until the lady at the ticket desk told us "oh it's because the stage has been moved forward from where it was supposed to be so your seats have been changed." She gave us new tickets and we ended up in the front row. We were pretty much the closest seated people to the stage as we were right on the end. Was cool to check out the new stadium for the first time too.

 

First on was Iain Archer. Hadn't heard any of his stuff before and he was pretty good. He was followed by Opshop, a New Zealand band. I only knew one of their songs, 'Maybe' which is quite big here at the moment. They were also pretty good.

 

Finally Snow Patrol came on at about 9.15. They opened up with Hands Open, and it followed the same setlist as the Australian shows. There were 2 really annoying women sitting next to me. In their 50's and they kept telling everyone to stand up. And the one next to me kept swearing, calling everyone bast**ds and saying it was "f**king bulls**t" noone was standing up. I feel that if you want to stand, you should buy a standing ticket. Fair enough if everyone in your seated area is standing, but when you are in the front row and noone behind you wants to stand, then you should not stand and ruin it for others. Fortunately about 3 songs in they got fed up and left. Maybe went to stand at the top of the stairs or something. I was glad they didn't come back anyway.

 

Signal Fire was really amazing to hear live. And Gary was so funny and entertaining in between songs. Just before Grazed Knees someone shouted something and he asked the guy's name and dedicated the song to him. Then he said his name in the song a few times. :lol:

Chasing Cars was of course a highlight. I filmed the whole thing so will upload sometime soon. Shut Your Eyes which is not usually one of my favourites was also a real highlight. At the end Gary was getting everyone to sing along, first the ladies then the men, then he was making fun of 2 people down in the front row. I filmed that bit too.

The main highlight for me though was of course Run. Probably my equal favourite song of all time (alongside 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger'). I filmed the whole song too.

They went off after that and came back for an encore. You're All I have was a great way to finish.

 

The whole show was absolutely amazing. 2nd time I've seen them live this year and I'll never forget either. Luckily this time there was no camera ban so I could get as many photos and videos as I wanted.

 

Afterwards we saw Iain Archer outside in the merchandise truck, as I've already posted. Got some pics with him and he signed our tickets and we chatted to a couple of his support band for quite a while too. Was great to see them out amongst the fans.

 

Some of my pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me with Iain Archer:

 

Will youtube some videos in due course. :)

 

Setlist:

 

1. Hands Open

2. Chocolate

3. It's Beginning to Get To Me

4. Headlights On Dark Roads

5. Signal Fire

6. Grazed Knees

7. How To Be Dead

8. Tiny Little Fractures

9. Spitting Games

10. Chasing Cars

11. Shut Your Eyes

12. Make This Go On Forever

13. Set Fire To The Third Bar

14. Run

Encore

1. The Finish Line

2. Open Your Eyes

3. Your All I Have

Bit of a review then.

 

Got there with my mate as the doors had just opened at 6.30. I decided to splash out on the tour t-shirt with the dates on the back etc. $45NZ so it was pretty steep but it's a one time thing and a good memory. Last time I got the "tour program" which was just a book of pictures so a real rip off.

 

So we join the queue to get in and our tickets scanned up with some error message and we were told to go to the ticket office as we couldn't get in with these tickets. So this was slightly worrying, until the lady at the ticket desk told us "oh it's because the stage has been moved forward from where it was supposed to be so your seats have been changed." She gave us new tickets and we ended up in the front row. We were pretty much the closest seated people to the stage as we were right on the end. Was cool to check out the new stadium for the first time too.

 

First on was Iain Archer. Hadn't heard any of his stuff before and he was pretty good. He was followed by Opshop, a New Zealand band. I only knew one of their songs, 'Maybe' which is quite big here at the moment. They were also pretty good.

 

Finally Snow Patrol came on at about 9.15. They opened up with Hands Open, and it followed the same setlist as the Australian shows. There were 2 really annoying women sitting next to me. In their 50's and they kept telling everyone to stand up. And the one next to me kept swearing, calling everyone bast**ds and saying it was "f**king bulls**t" noone was standing up. I feel that if you want to stand, you should buy a standing ticket. Fair enough if everyone in your seated area is standing, but when you are in the front row and noone behind you wants to stand, then you should not stand and ruin it for others. Fortunately about 3 songs in they got fed up and left. Maybe went to stand at the top of the stairs or something. I was glad they didn't come back anyway.

 

Signal Fire was really amazing to hear live. And Gary was so funny and entertaining in between songs. Just before Grazed Knees someone shouted something and he asked the guy's name and dedicated the song to him. Then he said his name in the song a few times. :lol:

Chasing Cars was of course a highlight. I filmed the whole thing so will upload sometime soon. Shut Your Eyes which is not usually one of my favourites was also a real highlight. At the end Gary was getting everyone to sing along, first the ladies then the men, then he was making fun of 2 people down in the front row. I filmed that bit too.

The main highlight for me though was of course Run. Probably my equal favourite song of all time (alongside 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger'). I filmed the whole song too.

They went off after that and came back for an encore. You're All I have was a great way to finish.

 

The whole show was absolutely amazing. 2nd time I've seen them live this year and I'll never forget either. Luckily this time there was no camera ban so I could get as many photos and videos as I wanted.

 

Afterwards we saw Iain Archer outside in the merchandise truck, as I've already posted. Got some pics with him and he signed our tickets and we chatted to a couple of his support band for quite a while too. Was great to see them out amongst the fans.

 

Some of my pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me with Iain Archer:

 

Will youtube some videos in due course. :)

 

Setlist:

 

1. Hands Open

2. Chocolate

3. It's Beginning to Get To Me

4. Headlights On Dark Roads

5. Signal Fire

6. Grazed Knees

7. How To Be Dead

8. Tiny Little Fractures

9. Spitting Games

10. Chasing Cars

11. Shut Your Eyes

12. Make This Go On Forever

13. Set Fire To The Third Bar

14. Run

Encore

1. The Finish Line

2. Open Your Eyes

3. Your All I Have

 

FIRST ROW?NICE!!! how much of the ticket? and who is that girl on stage(is she the same girl when singing MTGOF?)

FIRST ROW?NICE!!! how much of the ticket? and who is that girl on stage(is she the same girl when singing MTGOF?)

 

Where was this gig?

Don't you live in Taipei?:confused:

FIRST ROW?NICE!!! how much of the ticket? and who is that girl on stage(is she the same girl when singing MTGOF?)

 

I can't remember exactly how much it cost, $90NZ I think. That's about 35 pounds which may help you convert into you own currency.

We didn't expect to be front row. Our original seat was Row U, but then we got allocated new seats due to moving the stage and we got moved to row K which interestinly was the front row. I knew we would have good seats though as I bought the tickets in the "Fan Club" Online Pre-Sale (fan club being just the online mailing list) as soon as this sale opened and I asked for the "best available" seats. :)

I'm not entirely sure who the lady singer was. I know her name is Miriam, and apparently she is Iain Archer's wife/partner. She came on to sing 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar' with Gary, while Iain Archer also played acoustic guitar during the song (you can see him half hidden behind Gary in that pic). She also performed during Archer's opening set. I got her to sign my ticket afterwards too.

 

Where was this gig?

Don't you live in Taipei?:confused:

 

The gig I posted about was in Auckland, New Zealand last Friday. :)

Uploaded most of my videos now. Here's what is up so far, will add the last few links when they are done.

 

Gary missed the 2nd line. :lol:

 

 

 

 

You can hear those annoying women I posted about telling everyone to get up at the start of this. "Get up get up get up get up."

 

 

 

Gary getting everyone to sing along, then making fun of 2 people down at the front. You can hear me laugh a couple of times too. :lol:

 

 

Bit of talk then whole song. You can possibly hear me singing at the end. :lol:

 

More to come when uploaded.

Uploaded most of my videos now. Here's what is up so far, will add the last few links when they are done.

 

Gary missed the 2nd line. :lol:

 

 

 

 

You can hear those annoying women I posted about telling everyone to get up at the start of this. "Get up get up get up get up."

 

 

 

Gary getting everyone to sing along, then making fun of 2 people down at the front. You can hear me laugh a couple of times too. :lol:

 

 

Bit of talk then whole song. You can possibly hear me singing at the end. :lol:

 

More to come when uploaded.

 

Wow.... I was wondering if they're having a concert in Indonesia:\

Where was this gig?

Don't you live in Taipei?:confused:

 

:laugh3: i also hope its me...obviously its not me...

hey guys, you know any good fan forum of snow patrol like this one??? you know where they share SP stuff and got news and everything cause I've become fan of them and I wanna check out this band deeper

http://www.snowpatrol.com/

http://www.snowpatrol.com/registration/default.aspx?rtn=$members$Default.aspx!&st=3

 

here it is

I enjoy to read this thread !

I love SP too.

They're awesome in live, and their 4 albums are brilliant !

 

Mig-El, here there is the official forum :

http://www.snowpatrol.net/phpBB/

thanks I'm already in but do you know any other forum, the official one seems to be kind of boring you know, not that many people and not that much sharing and everything