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Any stand out songs that i should definitely listen to?

 

 

Chasing Cars

Hands Open

Make This Go On Forever

Open Your Eyes

 

They are my faves at the mo!

I just bought their new album yesterday, is so cool. I loved it.

my fave songs are:

 

hands open

shut yout eyes

it's beginning to get to me

you could be happy

make this go on forever

set the fire to the third bar

 

i love the whole album but specially the tracks in the middle, yesterday i listened 'you could be happy' on my mp3 and it was so relaxing and lovely.

Yes, it's a lovely listen! :)

*bump*

 

snowww patrolllll!!!! :)

 

i won't be able to make it to the boston show :cry:

 

but its ok.. im still goin to ny & philly.. *sigh*

you know, I recently borrowed the albums from a friend, and no matter how much I want to like them, I don't!!!! I think that 'Chasing cars' is their best song, all the rest is just rubbish.

set the fire to the third bar is better :P i saw the video from chasing cars, nice! :)

you know' date=' I recently borrowed the albums from a friend, and no matter how much I want to like them, I don't!!!! I think that 'Chasing cars' is their best song, all the rest is just rubbish.[/quote']

 

wait u borrowed ALL the albums and u think chasing cars is the BEST best? and none of the other ones aer ANY good at all?

 

im not trying to be all defensive like "U DONT LIKE SNOW PATROL AND U SUCK" im actually curious lol :P

Exclusive: Snow Patrol: "Chasing Cars (The Hey Team Remix)"

 

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/~files/snowpatrol-chasingcarsremix.mp3

 

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/~files/snowpatrol-chasingcarsremix.mp3

 

The original version of Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (the latest single from their new album, Eyes Open), is plenty beautiful, but there isn't really anything to distinguish it from heaps of other pretty, soaring love songs.

 

This remix, courtesy of a mysterious entity called the Hey Team, turns the track into something else. It's even more beautiful, but it's also kinda fucked up. It begins with fluttery beats and a wisp of ambient background noise, swells on a pulsing undercurrent, and then, around the three-minute mark, starts to break down. Little jagged shards cut in and out, attacking the song with computer-game-rebooting noises and stop-start stutters. It all gets more and more confusing until it just stops, falling away to reveal a curtain of strings.

 

Expertly crafted and extremely satisfying, this is up there with Röyksopp's take on Coldplay's "Clocks" in the sad-sack remix Hall of Fame. I don't know who the Hey Team are (related to the Go! Team?), but I'm looking forward to hearing more from them.

 

Snow Patrol are headed out on a positively mammoth tour starting next week, which will take them throughout Europe and North America and will end in England in December. England in December? Sure to be some snow there.

 

Dates:

 

 

08-10 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival

08-12 Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre (KNDD Endfest)

08-13 Portland, OR - Tom McCall Waterfront Park

08-15 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion

08-19 Dublin, Ireland - Marley Park

08-21 Douglas, Isle of Man - Royal Hall Villa Marina

08-23 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Botanic Gardens

08-25 Edinburgh, Scotland - Meadowbank Stadium

08-26 Cardiff, Wales - Coopers Field (Get Loaded in the Park Festival)

08-27 Cornwall, England - Eden Project

09-02 Trinity, Jersey - Royal Jersey Showground

09-06 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle *

09-08 New York, NY - Roseland *

09-09 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory *

09-10 Washington D.C. - 9:30 Club *

09-12 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis *

09-13 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus *

09-14 Detroit, MI - Clutch Cargo's *

09-16 Chicago, IL - Riviera *

09-17 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *

09-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - PNE Forum *

09-23 Portland, OR - Roseland *

09-24 San Francisco, CA - Warfield *

09-26 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern *

09-27 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern *

09-28 San Diego, CA - House of Blues

10-09 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega House of Music

10-10 Cologne, Germany - Ewerk

10-11 Utrecht, Netherlands - Muziekcentrum Vredenburg

10-13 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle

10-14 Berlin, Germany - Huxley's

10-15 Vienna, Austria - Arena

10-16 Munich, Germany - Elserhalle

10-18 Zurich, Switzerland - Rohstofflager

10-20 Lyon, France - Transbordeur

10-22 Marseille, France - Le Moulin

10-26 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre

10-27 Nantes, France - Olympic

10-29 Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix

11-26 Bournemouth, England - Bournemouth International Centre

11-28 Birmingham, England - NIA Birmingham

11-29 Manchester, England - Manchester Evening News Arena

11-30 Newcastle, England - Metro Radio Arena

12-16 Glasgow, Scotland - SECC

12-18 London, England - Wembley Arena

12-19 London, England - Wembley Arena

 

* with Augustana

 

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/37745/MP3_Exclusive_Snow_Patrol_Chasing_Cars_The_He

is there anyway someone could upload these, cos i dont have quick time pro ^

all the dates for the tour. is there any rumours on them cancelling or will they follow through

I'm going to that one: "08-26 Cardiff, Wales - Coopers Field (Get Loaded Presents Cardiff Calling)" :)

I love Snow Patrol, people think they're just about Run and Chasing Cars type of stuff, should check out their first two albums before Final Straw...some verrry weird stuff lol.

 

Incidentally of recent Snow Patrol I think I like Make This Go On Forever, How To Be Dead, You Could Be Happy and Shut Your Eyes most of all.

I like the first album! 2nd one is probably their most depressing! hehe

 

For the past five weeks, Snow Patrol -- one of the UK's best and brightest new bands -- has been traveling across America on a bus that now shares certain traits with a warm m&m: shiny and colorful on the outside, dark and a bit gooey on the inside. Every member of the band has been hit with one virus or another, and right now, their lead singer can't manage to shake a bad cold -- one that was, in fact, so debilitating that the group had to cancel a daytime gig at a local record store earlier in the day.

 

They're so sick and tired, it wouldn't be hard to imagine that they would be ready to go home right about now. Back to Belfast or Glasgow or wherever you want to say they're from, depending on whether you base that "from" on their city of origin (the former) or their present home addresses.

 

But instead of moping around and counting down the minutes 'til the bell rings, these guys are loving every second of it. To be honest, anything America could throw at them at this point couldn't compare to what the band's been through already. So bring it on.

 

Going bananas on the dole

"We've sort of been in a band for seven years, but really unemployed for five," laughs bassist Mark McClelland. "Our first record came out in '98, and then we had to wait three years for a second one, even though we had recorded it," he says. "But we were on a small label [Jeepster] with Belle and Sebastian, and Belle and Sebastian were a hit, so they were throwing all their money into them. They said, 'I know you've got this record ready, and I know you want to release it, but we've got to spend all our money on this and this and this.'"

 

All that "this" meant no album and no tour for Snow Patrol, at that point made up of McClelland, singer/guitarist Gary Lightbody and drummer Jonny Quinn. Undaunted, McClelland and their manager bought a van -- one that was just big enough to hold the band and their gear. "And that meant we could afford to go 'round for nothing. And we just did it. We just did it because we believed in it. We wanted to believe in it."

 

Alas, there was little but that faith to motivate them. "Three years went by, and if you don't release any records, you don't complete any contracts -- you're totally unemployed, there's no income whatsoever," he sighs. "So for three years between that album [2001's When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up] and this album [2004's Final Straw], we were just sitting there, going slowly nuts."

 

Going nuts -- and living together in a flat in Glasgow, a situation that McClelland says actually worked for a while. "But when everyone's eating beans, and you're fightin' for the last can, it sort of gets a bit much."

 

Ultimately, the band left Jeepster "because we weren't happy with that sort of treatment," says McClelland. Becoming free agents, however, didn't make an immediate difference. "There was another dry spell before we got this record deal -- another two years."

 

Although it took longer than they could have ever imagined, that deal, with Polydor's Fiction label (Interscope/A&M stateside), was worth the wait. Finally, Snow Patrol were in the major leagues.

 

 

Half the fun

There are about 30,000 new recordings released each year just in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Of those, fewer than ten percent are actually profitable. Considering that an album with major distribution costs a label upwards of a million bucks, record companies typically remain interested only in what sticks.

 

McClelland knows the odds were against them. "We could have just disappeared -- many bands do," he says, shaking his head. "We were just incredibly lucky."

 

Luck played a part, true. But no more so than talent, faith, persistence, timing... and a whole lot of patience. And when all that finally paid off, it paid off big.

 

Final Straw, Snow Patrol's third album (though their first released stateside) hit number 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart in mid-October. Just over six months after its release, the album had already sold 158,000 copies in the US. And nine months after the February 2004 release of the UK version, it had shipped more than 900,000 copies, certifying the British disc triple platinum.

 

The band capped the year by appearing on the Band Aid 20 re-recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas" -- a single that also includes Bono, Paul McCartney and members of Radiohead, Coldplay, Keane, The Darkness, Travis, Blur and The Thrills.

 

"It's just taken us by surprise," says McClelland of the band's hard-won hit status. "By this time last year, we'd already had a more successful album than either of the first two, and we were happy with that... We'd sold 20,000 records in the UK -- 'Woo hoo, this is great!' And then suddenly with this record -- bang," he says, eyes wide. "Just been trying to get our heads around it ever since."

 

A snow job

Compared to the band's earlier work, Final Straw has a different feel -- clearly more modern, and, well, more obviously marketable. Not only was the band coming from a whole different place because the famine was finally coming to an end, it was also the first time the band had an actual producer at the helm. Of the earlier self-produced albums, McClelland acknowledges, "I think our indie ethos held us back a wee bit."

 

With acclaimed producer Garret Lee, otherwise known as "Jacknife Lee," on their team, things would undoubtedly be different. Lee's client roster included the likes of Eminem, Christina Aguilera and Run DMC. While he didn't try to turn Snow Patrol into Belfast's hottest hip-hop band, that's not to say he didn't make a few tweaks here and there. "We changed 'Wow' just as we started recording it," McClelland says of the album's second track. "Nathan [Connolly, guitarist] was messing about and [the producer] said, 'Well okay, tape rolling,' and we started -- and then he went, 'What was that Nathan was playing? That was much better,' so we had to change the whole song."

 

Indeed, Connolly's involvement was another major element shaping the band's new sound. "Nathan's the new boy in the band," says McClelland. "He joined just for this album." Formerly employed in the stockroom of record store chain HMV, the new guitarist was the final piece of the puzzle. (Lest you think he just lucked out big time... well, he did -- but he was also only 13 when McClelland and Lightbody first started the band.)

 

"At the time when I joined, they had just gotten together with Big Life [management]. Basically, in the space of a day, I ended up in Glasgow," says Connolly. "I'd say pretty much half the record was already there when I joined, and the other half, we'd just started writing. There were parts that were there, and we changed songs and different things."

 

By way of example, McClelland offers, "Nathan did the hook to 'Spitting Games.'" Of his contribution to this song, arguably the album's catchiest single, Connolly shrugs. "Sometimes just someone's messing about with a couple of chords, you start playing along, and it just fits it automatically -- you don't even know what you've done," he says. "It can be so accidental."

 

 

Smells like teen spirit

Snow Patrol began in Dundee, Scotland, where McClelland and Lightbody met soon after starting university there in 1994. Not only did they share a love for the same sorts of bands (think Pixies, Sebadoh, Soundgarden), they were also both from Northern Ireland. Another two lads from back home -- Quinn and Connolly -- rounded out the lineup in 1998 and 2002, respectively.

 

Like most of the best bands in history, the members of Snow Patrol had fairly lackluster starts to their musical careers. None of them were playing sonatas at age three, and there wasn't a family friend who knew someone that knew somebody in the business. McClelland's parents did, however, encourage him to pick up an instrument. "My parents made me learn the violin from the ages of 7 to 11, and I hated it," he says. Only some savvy negotiating tactics saved him from possibly becoming a member of pop string quartet Bond. "My dad was a bass player, and I said, 'If I take up the bass, will you let me off violin lessons?' And that's how it happened. I started when I was 10 -- just messing about, taught myself. Dad helped a wee bit. That was it."

 

The fact that McClelland played for three or four hours every night helped, too. "I went to a school where not many people from my area went to -- they all lived about twenty miles away. I didn't really hang out with that many people, so I could play the bass all the time. Along to Led Zeppelin, along to the Chili Peppers -- along to everything." He laughs, "I think I actually owe my neighbors some recompense for all of that!"

 

The people next door probably were a little happier when he joined his first band around age 14. "It was when Nirvana came out -- I thought 'I could play these songs.'" Soon, he started playing regularly with other people. "I got to play in loads of bands, 'cause nobody plays the bass," he laughs. "As soon as you get in a band, it's miles better -- you can do a lot more, you learn much quicker, you learn how to play with other people, you learn to listen when you play -- it just galvanizes everything. As soon as you join a band, you've got something to rehearse for."

 

Connolly first got his hands on his own guitar when he was 12 or 13, but, he says, "I didn't take it seriously 'til I was 15 or 16 -- I was just messing about." His first real band experience wasn't for another year or so. "It wasn't that great," he snorts when remembering his first group. "You gotta start somewhere, though."

 

Both give Cobain and crew props for having an early influence on their careers. Krist Novoselic, in particular, gets a callout from McClelland. When it comes to grooving along to such a talent, he smiles and shrugs, "It's just how you learn."

 

http://sheknows.com/about/look/4921.htm

:)

 

well, this could be my date:

10-15 Vienna, Austria - Arena

Does anyone have any live Snow Patrol, or do I have to start a thread in the mulitimedia thread?

 

I'm specifically interested in this new tour, and I've been trying to get tickets to the 9:30 club, but it's an impossible show to get tickets to.

 

thanks much.

Snow Patrol, Anyone?

 

I just recently got my hands on Snow Patrol's latest album, Eyes Open... And it is just amazing. I've also heard Spitting Games, Run, and Chocolate from Final Straw, my hands-down favorite being Chocolate.

 

They just have such a great sound... I'm not going to go into Coldplay comparisons, though their sound, here and there, does remind me of them a bit.

 

What about y'all?

i love chocolate!! i recently heard it because it's part of the last kiss ost!!!

 

their latest album was out this year or in 2005?

bump

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10960&page=90&highlight=snow+patrol

 

theres a big old snow patrol thread, i just bumped it for ya!

yay for bumps!

 

the wonderful month of september is fast approachin!

Snow Patrol to the rescue with infectious British pop

 

Boston has always been kind to Irish bands. Tuesday night’s Snow Patrol show at the Bank of America Pavilion was no exception, as the Glasgow-by-way-of-Belfast five-piece played to its biggest crowd ever in the States. The majority of howling concert-goers appeared to be Irish expats, but the throbbing tent was packed nonetheless.

 

After opening with an volley of classic Brit-pop bombast, including the chugging bounce of ‘‘Spitting Games” and the unabashedly romantic midtempo ballad ‘‘Chocolate,” singer/guitarist Gary Lightbody acknowledged the Hub’s place in the band’s heart, saying, ‘‘It’s good to be back in Boston, our spiritual American home.”

 

With a penchant for giant walls of guitar, choruses drenched in sing-along hooks and soft-hearted schoolboy lyrics, Snow Patrol fits easily among the post-Coldplay Brit-pop acts popping up all over the UK. Tunes such as the starry-eyed melodrama ‘‘Chasing Cars” blended the candy-coated choruses of Keane with the anthemic scope of U2. Unlike Bono, however, Lightbody’s singing about a girl, not saving the world.

 

Snow Patrol has hooks and a vaulting sound. But it was sometimes difficult to get past Lightbody’s relentlessly lovelorn lyrics, which sound more or less like one long, desperate e-mail to a disenchanted girlfriend.

 

Between tunes, Lightbody revealed a talent for blarney, wittily waxing on about where the band planned to eat after the show and the ‘‘sexy trousers” he had bought on Newbury Street.

 

During the encore, one of the many Irish flags waved by the audience sailed from the seats and hit Lightbody square in the face just before the band gunned into the catchy but mind-numbingly repetitive ‘‘Open Your Eyes.” This may have been Snow Patrol’s biggest show in the United States, but it just as well could have been back in the old country.

 

Boston’s Aberdeen City played an impressive and thunderous opening set of post-punk that captured the attention of Snow Patrol fandom, even if the band did occasionally sound like the local entry in the Joy Division clone sweepstakes.

 

Snow Patrol, with Aberdeen City, at Bank of America Pavilion, Tuesday night.

 

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=153164

this may have been asked before but i'm kind of thick when it comes to using the search button so... does anyone here know of forums like these with kind people like u guys where they share live versions of keane and snow patrol?? COLDPLAY is always my number one but those other bands are cool and i'd like to hear some live versions of their great songs... thanks in advance!