I love just say yes

^ im back by the way since for 4 months!

AAAAAAh! :bomb:

 

Thanks for the video!

I really hope he'll talk loads on Monday inbetween songs :wacky:

 

(Every seat in the RAH is good! Did you have a look at the virtual tour on the website?)

 

The tracker on seetickts is changed now btw, seems like somebody finally did his job.

Have fun tonight, everyone! Can't wait to hear all about it!! :dance:

have fun guys!!:dance::D (for us too!:P)

helllo people! :) I hope everyone who is going to RAH (which is monday, right?) has a fantastic time!

 

Just got home from seeing "Pirate Radio" - it was hysterical AND at the end they had a montage of the best "rock" albums from the 60s - now! "Final Straw" was up there and it made me pretty happy :) I didn't see Coldplay but did see U2 & The Killers also, which I know will make some of you happy :)

 

ALSO there was a preview for an Amy Adams movie called "Leap Year" and the song playing throughout was "Just Say Yes" it sounded great!

 

OK wish I had exciting news but that is it for now! everyone have an awesome weekend :)

helllo people! :) I hope everyone who is going to RAH (which is monday, right?) has a fantastic time!

 

Just got home from seeing "Pirate Radio" - it was hysterical AND at the end they had a montage of the best "rock" albums from the 60s - now! "Final Straw" was up there and it made me pretty happy :) I didn't see Coldplay but did see U2 & The Killers also, which I know will make some of you happy :)

 

ALSO there was a preview for an Amy Adams movie called "Leap Year" and the song playing throughout was "Just Say Yes" it sounded great!

 

OK wish I had exciting news but that is it for now! everyone have an awesome weekend :)

they'd have to be whipped if U2 isn't anywhere in any "best rock album" listing for 60s - now, imo. :P

 

 

 

the Bristol gig was great!!! i managed to work up the courage to tell Tom after the gig that it was a great show...he thanked me & said it helps that we were a great crowd. :D

 

Nathan was incredibly difficult to take any decent photo of all night...& he scarpered off pretty fast when he came out the back with the other guys. so i didn't get a photo with him or get him to sign my copy of Final Straw. but the other guys were really nice & Paul even took a photo of me with Jonny for me...well, he took 2. cos he said the 1st was all blurry & funny.

 

& Gary's got my mini Sharpie...he seemed to take a liking to it over the bigger/normal one he was holding when i asked him to sign Final Straw...& it never made it back to me. :P

 

got some uni work to finish still. i'll try & post a review & pix tomorrow after i get back from Cardiff on my Doctor Who hunt. :P

Awwww, Kimmi- that's awesome! So glad you got to meet the guys! :dance:

Can't wait to hear a review of the show and see the pics!!

 

@Meredith- hey! I'm jealous you get to go see movies! ;) Hope you have a great weekend!

 

@Everyone- hope everyone's got a fun weekend lined up! Btw, did anyone else besides Kimmi get the box set? Just curious... I haven't heard much talk about it. Still haven't gotten my deluxe copy yet... not sure I'll be able to hold out til xmas!

 

Anyway, hope everyone is well! x

@Kimmi: I know I've said it like a thousend times already, but I'm really glad you had such a fab time! :) I'm looking forward to reading your review and seeing your photos, but I guess that will have to wait until late next week... ;)

 

@Jen: About the boxset... I'm still waiting for mine. I'm a bit gutted because I got the confirmation that it has been sent about 15 days ago and I still haven't received it... :\ It'd have been really great to get it before I leave for London, but oh well... I just guess it'll be a bit difficult for me to resist when I see a copy of the album in a record store in London and knowing that I shouldn't buy it... :rolleyes:

 

Well, I'm off now. I'm excited as hell and already pretty scatterbrained already. :lol: I hope eveyone's got a nice weekend and talk to you guys soon! :hug:

starfighter pilot reworked!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1d9VGZKChY]YouTube- Snow Patrol Star Fighter Pilot 2009 Version Brighton 18/11/09[/ame]

& olive grove w/trumpet!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6CMZYxbT8&feature=channel]YouTube- Snow Patrol. An Olive Grove Facing The Sea 2009 Version. Brighton. 18/11/09[/ame]

Kimmi - i forgot that you had your concert already - thats wicked awesome that you got to meet the guys! You must be psyched! :) good job - so happy you had such a great time! I'll be anxiously awaiting reviews and pics and everything else - but don't worry I can wait until school is over for winter break. ( we don't get out until decemeber 23rd and go back january 18 - shortest break every - hope yours is at least a little longer. )

 

Jen - hahah too bad you can't get out for movies every once in a while. i guess that's what babies do to ya huh?

 

Illione - have SO MUCH fun - i am pretty jealous, so i will live vicariously through you, if thats ok! :)

Kimmi, that's actually pretty awesome knowing that Gary has your sharpie! Now whenever he looks at it, he'll think of that girl he forgot to switch pens back with! :lol:

Can't wait for the review and pictures!

 

Oh, hope you're having fun, Ilione!

hey everybody :nice:

 

@kimgan

Awesome that you've had a great time and got meet the guys! :nice: Brings back the memorys of my concert..

 

I hope everyone who's going to the shows has a lot of fun! :dance:

 

I said I won't buy Up To Now but I had a voucher left, so I got it yesterday. And I'm so glad I did, love the new songs, especially Give Me Strength :heart:

btw, did you see Set The Fire with Cheryl Cole at the Children In Need gig?

She has a great voice and sings it well, but I like Marthas voice a lot more.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVjQYbX-F7k]YouTube- Snow Patrol & Cheryl Cole : 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar ' Children In Need 2009[/ame]

hey everybody :nice:

 

@kimgan

Awesome that you've had a great time and got meet the guys! :nice: Brings back the memorys of my concert..

 

I hope everyone who's going to the shows has a lot of fun! :dance:

 

I said I won't buy Up To Now but I had a voucher left, so I got it yesterday. And I'm so glad I did, love the new songs, especially Give Me Strength :heart:

btw, did you see Set The Fire with Cheryl Cole at the Children In Need gig?

She has a great voice and sings it well, but I like Marthas voice a lot more.

 

I watched the entire Children In Need concert today. Cheryl was OK, but unexceptional IMO. She can sing a bit, but isn't that good.;)

Kimmi - i forgot that you had your concert already - thats wicked awesome that you got to meet the guys! You must be psyched! :) good job - so happy you had such a great time! I'll be anxiously awaiting reviews and pics and everything else - but don't worry I can wait until school is over for winter break. ( we don't get out until decemeber 23rd and go back january 18 - shortest break every - hope yours is at least a little longer. )

 

well, mine's about as long as yours actually. just that my break starts on 14 Dec & ends 10 Jan. which i fully intend to spend X'mas week snowboarding (pun intended)...to destress. even if it'll be my 1st time trying it out. :D

 

but i'll get to work on the review now...or this wk/end latest. cos i've got a programming test & assigment happening/due next week. :(

 

 

Kimmi, that's actually pretty awesome knowing that Gary has your sharpie! Now whenever he looks at it, he'll think of that girl he forgot to switch pens back with! :lol:

Can't wait for the review and pictures!

 

Oh, hope you're having fun, Ilione!

yeah, that would be a cool thought...haha assuming he didn't junk it the moment he walked away...or it didn't slip out of his massive hands (it looks even smaller in his hands that it already is!) :P

eeeeeeeeeeee

 

Boxset arriving next week.

 

Excitement.

Hahah I love it how Gary cant stay at one place... She is next to the mic and he is moving all the time... :D

Mystical Bristol (hmmm...darn, not as good at this as garyL)

 

ok...1st warning: this is going to be a long one. & i'm going on a smiley spam spree... ;)

 

 

i'd all the while thought it odd that my ticket for this Snow Patrol gig read "An Evening with SNOW PATROL" (that's the exact font/print appearance) instead of something along the lines of "Snow Patrol - Reworked Tour 2009", but after Friday, i think whoever printed that ticket was spot on about what the Colston Hall gig turned out to be for me! :D

 

the first sign that we were in for an intimate & informal evening of Snow Patrol : Gary walking onstage with a mug of drink in hand...even if he was dressed semi-formally (same attire as Brighton). there were also some audio issues involving the mics during at least 2 songs, but, imho & as much as i too hate the sound of mic feedback having done AV stage work ages ago, this just gave the whole thing a more raw, down-to-earth feel rather than being a well oiled nicely polished gig from start to finish...which realistically it wasn't, given that they apparently only had 1 week to prep for the tour. it was more enjoyable in that sense...for me anyway. weirdo that i am. :P

 

Gary was in fine form that night, so i was surprised that he sounded so hoarse when i met him after. either he's a bit ill or it was from all that singing & joking around for almost 3hrs - like the very serious looking guy at the 2nd row who was terrifying him & but got to hug him anyway, the person who knew the words to Gary's song about Tierry Henry that hadn't even been written yet.

 

i know people who went to the Brighton gig were commenting on the SP.com forum that that gig felt more like the "Gary Lightbody & guest musicians" show, but i didn't get that feeling for the Bristol gig. fairly sure there were only 2 Reindeer Section songs (Cartwheels & You Are My Joy) & the rest of Snow Patrol were onstage pretty much for every other song played from what i could tell. tho they were pretty spread out on the stage & usually disappeared offstage pretty quick since they were at the edge of either side of the stage. & Tom was hidden amongst the other musicians most of the time.

 

& maybe it's in response to the feedback from the Brighton gig on their forum that Gary mentioned that the Brighton crowd were a bit lost about how things worked that night with it being a 2-set affair with an intermission & all. he explained how it would go to us...tho i think the Bristol crowd were still a bit lost. after the slow start during the 1st set, things picked up for the 2nd set but the people in my section were all seated still & i was thinking "oh crud! nobody here's going to stand at all???" then the guy in front of me turned to look back & i gestured for him to get up. & bless him that he had good manners. he actually asked if i was sure about that first as he didn't want to block my view cos he was rather tall. i told him "i'll stand if you stand"...& there we were...3 people (the girl with him also stood up) bopping away in our section until the people around us decided to stand up too. :P

 

i'd say the standout songs for me from the reworked ones are Chasing Cars and The Planets Bend Between Us. Chocolate & Run were great too, but i don't think they changed those much from the Union Chapel version. also like the harder sound of the reworked Starfighter Pilot...i think it sounds much more spacey now too. :)

 

Chasing Cars and Planets, sound very different now...more so for Planets. so that makes it 3 versions of Planets that they've done in my books.

THANK YOU JENFLOR!!! your finger crossing have done their work well for Friday!!! :hug:

 

unless they are sticking to the current version of Chasing Cars as of the Bristol gig, i think they are still tinkering around with Chasing Cars' sound (& some of the other songs too, from the looks of it). but anyway, Bristol got dibs on a new reworking of it that "didn't quite work out for Brighton". :smug:

 

frankly, i don't think they need to tinker with it further...this version sounds FABULOUS, especially with the chant they've worked into the song now. at one point the crowd just went with singing the chant as opposed to those very famous words from the song. so i hope you guys going for the RAH gig get to hear it too! :heart:

 

Planets. the version played for this tour is easily a fave! when the Brigton people mentioned that it was a more "upbeat version" of Planets played, i'd thought they meant the single version of the song. but it turned out to be a REALLY more upbeat version & i prefer this version over the single version cos it's just a totally different way to enjoy the song (if i'm making any sense here). the intro has a bit of a U2 feel to it, mixed in with a bit of the ER theme throughout (that's what came to my mind). i'd actually thought it might've been Chasing Cars initially (y'know, medical theme...) until Gary started singing "the winter's marked the earth..." i wanted to jump & "SQUEEE!!!" but everyone around me was just bopping away silently. so i didn't. :embarassed:

 

the 3 new songs: they ALL sound great live! especially Dark Roman Wine. Give Me Strength is great & i love how it's about the other guys in Snow Patrol, but melody wise, i like Dark Roman Wine more.

 

oh...& i love how Gary's admitted he's actually scared of Jonny!!! it reminds me of how Chris is scared of Will!!! :laugh3:

guess it's the big scary drummer's job to keep the lead singer in line... :P

 

 

 

 

........& i now cannot listen to The Golden Floor AT ALL w/o bursting out laughing when it comes to the "i'm a peasant in your princess arms" bit. cos i think about how he said he almost sang it as "i'm a pheasant in your princess arms"!!! :laugh3:

& photos from Bristol...aka Brizzle pic spam

 

photos during the gig :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the rest are here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimchigang/sets/72157622852900972/

(as usual, took way too many photos for my own good :shame: )

 

 

 

photos from after :

 

 

 

i look like a frigging drenched rat!!! :embarassed:

but Paul's a better photographer than the person who took the earlier photo...& he collects Star Wars figurines too!!! :P

 

(edited out the other girl as i don't actually know her & i doubt she wants to find her face on a Coldplay forum... :P)

 

 

photos during the gig :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the rest are here :

(as usual, took way too many photos for my own good :shame: )

 

 

 

photos from after :

 

 

 

i look like a frigging drenched rat!!! :embarassed:

but Paul's a better photographer than the person who took the earlier photo...& he collects Star Wars figurines too!!! :P

 

(edited out the other girl as i don't actually know her & i doubt she wants to find her face on a Coldplay forum... :P)

 

 

Well done! How long was the set?

Well done! How long was the set?

thanks! :)

 

i'd say you're looking at about 40mins+ per set with a 25-30mins break in between. & they only did 2 songs for the encore - Just Say Yes & Shut Your Eyes, but perhaps they'll add another song for the RAH.

thanks! :)

 

i'd say you're looking at about 40mins+ per set with a 25-30mins break in between. & they only did 2 songs for the encore - Just Say Yes & Shut Your Eyes, but perhaps they'll add another song for the RAH.

 

I hope so.;)

photos during the gig :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the rest are here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimchigang/sets/72157622852900972/

(as usual, took way too many photos for my own good :shame: )

 

 

 

photos from after :

 

 

 

i look like a frigging drenched rat!!! :embarassed:

but Paul's a better photographer than the person who took the earlier photo...& he collects Star Wars figurines too!!! :P

 

(edited out the other girl as i don't actually know her & i doubt she wants to find her face on a Coldplay forum... :P)

 

 

omg! luckyyy:wideeyed:

Oooh lucky you!! Great pics too. Thanks for sharing those :D

Fantastic pics Kimmi!