Oh yeah :)

so jealous ;-)

I just need to get myself a new memory card, and make sure my battery is fully charged :)

I just need to get myself a new memory card, and make sure my battery is fully charged :)

 

Are you a Borg?:P

he's been assimilated by his camera after the Mew gig... :P

I hope we get some good quality videos of these performances cause I don't want to miss the new arrangements

i'll make sure I film some for you all @ the RAH!!! we won't be the closest , but the sound is very clear on my camera like this (filmed from a balcony!!)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQDUvzKiUgo&feature=channel]YouTube- Snow Patrol - Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands - Bournemouth - 22nd February 2009[/ame]

Hey Naomi, that's great because I have great seats but my camera can't really cope when it's loud :lol:

 

You are going on Monday, right? :thinking:

So who's going on Monday? There should be a meet-up.:D

On the list of rock's greatest cities, Belfast doesn't rank too highly.

 

Berlin is up there, its austere architecture lending alienated cool to Bowie and U2.

 

And New York has been eulogised in song so many times that, on his latest single, Brooklyn native Jay-Z has been reduced to listing landmarks like a tour guide on an open-top bus.

 

But Belfast? The only people to reference it in a hit song are those twin beacons of cool, Simple Minds and Boney M.

 

Local lads Snow Patrol have never been critical darlings, either, but they can claim to be Northern Ireland's biggest musical export - with more than six million albums sold in the UK and US alone.

 

And while most bands would up sticks for the big city, Snow Patrol's frontman Gary Lightbody quit London at the height of the band's fame to move in next door to his parents in Bangor.

 

Just 20 minutes from Belfast city centre, Bangor is a small seafront town, where tourists drift about in giant pedalo swans before queuing up for a cold "poke" (don't be rude, it's just the local term for an ice cream cone).

 

It may seem an incongruous place for a rock star to set up home - but Lightbody's decision to flee the big city was informed by the same earnest sentimentality that makes his lyrics resonate with millions of fans.

 

"When I found out my sister was pregnant, I moved home so I'd be settled by the time my little angel of a niece was born," coos the star.

 

"Nothing matters apart from her, to me. That's all that holds any real weight in the world."

 

And the singer admits that the family's new arrival may have awakened his own paternal instincts.

 

"Maybe I just got a little clucky, and I want kids of my own and I'm living vicariously through my sister and brother-in-law," he laughs.

 

"I don't care. She's the apple of my eye."

 

Lightbody refuses to be drawn any further - but attentive fans will know his turbulent love life ("I wrote six albums about break-ups," he once said) has taken on a happier course recently.

 

The lyrics to last year's A Hundred Million Suns were unashamedly romantic, and the singer describes new single, Just Say Yes, as being about "loving someone so much that you get exasperated they aren't showing the same amount of passion that you are".

 

Take back the country

 

The song is taken from a compilation CD, Up To Now, celebrating Snow Patrol's 15th anniversary.

 

It's being supported by a UK tour, which kicks off in Brighton next week, for which the band have an unusual theme: Country music.

 

The quintet have decided to reinvent their biggest hits, such as Chocolate and Chasing Cars, as Nashville ballads. Lightbody adds that they've been experimenting with Motown and heavy metal during rehearsals, too.

 

"Expect the unexpected," the 33-year-old says. "The only discernible similarity to our records will be the melody."

 

"We're going to play two sets so it's going to be close to three hours a night, so you've really got to be a fan to enjoy it.

 

"If anybody has bought a ticket and is reading this and going 'Oh, Christ, I can't take three hours of it', it's too late, I'm afraid!"

 

The album and tour are "a wee look over the shoulder", rather than the end of the band, Lightbody stresses; a way of charting Snow Patrol's progression from penniless students to globe-straddling rock stars.

 

As recently as 2002, they were without a record deal, sleeping on fan's floors and playing in tiny, unwelcoming venues.

 

Lightbody says he was so strapped for cash, he couldn't even buy Christmas presents for his family.

 

The band were "kept afloat" by their involvement in side project The Reindeer Section - which also featured members of Socttish indie bands Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub - until Polydor picked them up in 2003.

 

Success came quickly after that, with lighters-aloft anthem Run hitting the UK top five, and the US top 20; followed swiftly by the epic ballad Chasing Cars.

 

Critics have never been kind, however, with one NME review memorably dismissing the band as "music for Ford Focus owners and their girlfriends".

 

"To be honest with you, I have a love/hate relationship with the press, especially with the NME," Lightbody grins.

 

"I love the magazine and they are very, very funny about us.

 

"It's not difficult to understand why they hate us, because we're not cool and we're not dangerous, so there's not much to write about other than how much we suck."

 

So which car would he recommend as the ideal setting for a Snow Patrol CD?

 

"Erm... I don't know," the singer ponders. "I hope every possible car imaginable."

 

Even a Skoda?

 

"Especially the Skoda."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8347544.stm

 

3 Hour Set! :D

Friday is going to be amazing

Hey Naomi, that's great because I have great seats but my camera can't really cope when it's loud :lol:

 

You are going on Monday, right? :thinking:

 

Aw no i'm going on the wednesday :( !! Lol if we were going on the same day we could've both filmed it and stuck the audio of my filming on to the video of yours!! ;)

3 Hour Set! :D

Friday is going to be amazing

 

AGREED!!! :D :D :D

what songs are everyone hoping for?

Chocolate

You Could Be Happy

On/Off

Ask Me How I Am

The Planets Bend Between Us

Signal Fire

Just Say Yes

Shut Your Eyes

How To Be Dead

If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It

Grazed Knees

The Golden Floor

 

 

....ah, heck. i'll be happy with anything. just as long as they play Chocolate & The Planets Bend Between Us. :P

what songs are everyone hoping for?

 

In a country style?

 

Combine Harvester

I wanna be there for 3 hrs set!!!!

Hi everyone! :hug:

I've been so busy lately, I haven't had a chance to chat. Hope everyone is well and am so excited for those of you have shows coming up so soon! :dance:

 

 

and jealous, too! :P

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Kimmi- I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that they play The Planets Bend Between Us for you... I know how much you love that song!

Hi everyone! :hug:

I've been so busy lately, I haven't had a chance to chat. Hope everyone is well and am so excited for those of you have shows coming up so soon! :dance:

 

 

and jealous, too! :P

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Kimmi- I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that they play The Planets Bend Between Us for you... I know how much you love that song!

 

THANK YOU, JEN!!! :hug:

 

i wonder which version they'll play tho...if they do. the album version, or the single version, or a country version? :P

 

 

& OMG!!! i cannot believe that i actually got that question about who threw the motorbike into the water at the end of Run right!!! :stunned: *faints*

 

& that frigging hard question about the origami suns!!! the answer is just 5!!!

(i should've read that trick question more carefully...) :dozey:

THANK YOU, JEN!!! :hug:

 

i wonder which version they'll play tho...if they do. the album version, or the single version, or a country version? :P

 

 

& OMG!!! i cannot believe that i actually got that question about who threw the motorbike into the water at the end of Run right!!! :stunned: *faints*

 

& that frigging hard question about the origami suns!!! the answer is just 5!!!

(i should've read that trick question more carefully...) :dozey:

 

You're welcome! :nice: I hope they play it... I can't believe it's in just a couple of days now!!

 

And that stupid origami suns question!! how did you find out the answer? (obviously I missed the whole trick question thing)...

You're welcome! :nice: I hope they play it... I can't believe it's in just a couple of days now!!

 

And that stupid origami suns question!! how did you find out the answer? (obviously I missed the whole trick question thing)...

 

they've released the answers on the FB page of the Pub Quiz application. tho it looks like they are still tweaking around on what answers they are accepting as the right answers.

 

could've sworn that initially "Ward Park" was flagged as an incorrect answer (cos they wanted just "Ward" as the right answer...which is a bit too strict, imo) then now i think i saw that it's flagged as a correct answer. :confused:

 

anywayz, our team is 1pt behind the 2 joint leaders last i saw...but there's like a whole bunch of others who also are just 1pt behind. :P

@A Distant Echo-ers... great job, ladies! Our team did quite well I think! :smug: :hug:

 

For everyone else... here's a little tidbit of SP news I got off facebook this morning...

 

Gary will be talking about his influences and inspiration behind the writing of some of Snow Patrol's best loved songs.

 

In the new series of Sky Arts 'The Great British Songbook' the SP front man will perform tracks including 'Chasing Cars' and 'Run' unplugged during an hour long episode set to premier on Sky Arts on Thursday 19th November at 8pm.

 

For more information log onto skyarts.co.uk.

 

I don't get that channel, but perhaps some of you do... I'll try to catch it online later... I'm sure it'll pop up!

x

some vids from last night at Brighton found on youtube

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtI_eBDVVF4&feature=channel]YouTube- Snow Patrol - Run - Brighton Centre. 18/11/09[/ame]

[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]

wow! that's fast!

 

read a review (ok...on hindsight i probably shouldn't have) on the SP.com forums & seems like it's mostly Gary + guest musicians onstage as opposed to Snow Patrol as a band. there were apparently some hecklers in the crowd too + the crowd were generally a bit confused about whether they should be sitting down all prim & proper thruout or rocking away. :\

 

*tries hard to just forget what she's read earlier & enjoy tomorrow* :P

Thanks for the vids! :) Hope to see more soon!

 

Audience confusion isn't too surprising since so many of these songs are being thrown for a loop and not what the audience is necessarily expecting. Wish I could be there, but have fun at your show! ;)

Here's another video from Brighton:

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I'd actually managed to resist listening to the new songs as I wanted to wait until the new record is here, but seeing as my box set still hasn't arrived (:( and I'm actually really gutted about that fact because it'd have been too great to receive it before I head to the UK), I finally decided to listen to the two new songs as I wanted to be able to sing along to them next week... And I couldn't resist any longer anyway. :lol:

But boy, those songs are so damn GORGEOUS! I'm especially in love with "Give me strength", I'd already fallen in love with the sneakpeek... Listening to the whole song for the first time really made me cry because it's just so plain beautiful and such a nice "lovesong" about the band. :)

 

Having watched all those videos from Brighton, I started to feel so fidgety about next week! I'm sure this is going to be grand, even though my seat might be a bit of a bummer... :thinking::\ Still looking forward to it SO much! :dance:

 

Everyone who's going to see them tonight: Enjoy yourselves and have a blast! :) I'm looking forward to reading your reviews tomorrow. :D