Confirmed!! coming to New Zealand next Feburary! . . . .

 

Yay for me!

really great band...

chasing cars,hands open....:rolleyes: :)

Im amused by the song "run". Im kinda getting bored with chasing cars cause its constantly on the radio.

Im amused by the song "run". Im kinda getting bored with chasing cars cause its constantly on the radio.

 

amused in the good or bad way?

 

and thats exactly why i try to avoid listening to the radio :P

Got my Houston ticket for March 11 :D

uh ohs.. my friend might not be able to make the show with me!!!!

 

not that thats gonna stop me from going.. but still :(

they should come to latin america :dance:

yessss. Snow Patrol are live on the webcast for KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas 5:30 Pacific time.

12 days 'til the Point....I CAN'T WAIT!

 

C'mon extended set...please! :D

 

I don't mind if they don't do it..hey, twice in 4 months! I'm not complaining. :D

Scottish softies turn snow to slush

 

Snow Patrol

G-Mex, Manchester

 

Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody staggers around the stage, eyes screwed shut. Scotland's most eligible bachelor (source: Scotland on Sunday) shakes and gangles and spasms, all musicianly joy. Backlit, his enormous shadow falls on the lovely Victorian walls and graceful arched ceiling of this former railway shed in the centre of Manchester. The song is 'It's Beginning to Get to Me', from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open

 

But the moves are at odds with the tunes. Lightbody's strutting and fretting suggests he's at the helm of some bucking Viking ship of rock. He is, in fact, in charge of a giant train set of a song, one that goes round and round and round on one riff, and which, depending on the brand of battery used, could go on indefinitely. It's the kind of song whose calculated tension really doesn't warrant split trousers and auto-erotic rock whiplash.

 

Snow Patrol have many songs like this, that build and build and build to something slightly damp with regret. They have carefully constructed a very successful latterday career on them. 'Run' the breakout hit from their pivotal album, 2003's Final Straw (received ecstatically tonight) set the template.

 

'Chasing Cars', the gateway single from Eyes Open - a song recently nominated for a Grammy, thanks in part to TV airplay on Grey's Anatomy in the States - does it too. Some of these songs get to a climax. Some of them - like sing-song ballad 'How to be Dead' - craftily withdraw, just before the moment of rock jouissance. The trick, once spotted, is hard to ignore. Over the course of a long gig the cumulative effect is of a giant disembodied hand, drumming its fingers, wiping a tear now and again.

 

Wow, can tension be dull. Snow Patrol's concatenation of rueful builds is relieved, if that's the right word, by a smattering of songs from the vaults. The first is 'Starfighter Pilot' the band's first single, from nearly a decade ago. They were called Polar Bear then, and sounded, at times, like a baggy version of Sonic Youth. They were signed to Jeepster, home of Belle & Sebastian, and they were very, very indie.

 

How times change. Now they are supersized, indie gone grand. Let's call it 'grandie'. In late November Eyes Open overtook Arctic Monkeys and became the biggest-selling album of 2006 in the UK. Phew: for a while there it was looking like a great record brimming with wit, vigour and originality might actually scoop the top sales prize.

 

Thankfully, good sense has prevailed. Britain can pat itself on the back, having embraced an album with all the texture and edge of a security blanket doused with fabric softener. The commercial honours of the last few years - Blunt, Keane, Dido, even the distinctly classier Coldplay - tell a sorry tale. We see bands as things with which to wipe our tears, where once they were, properly, rabble-rousers, Pied Pipers and volatile party kindling.

 

That said, it is hard to actually hate Snow Patrol. That's because it is hard to summon up any strong feelings at all about a band cast, tonight, in heroic dimensions by small player-cams that project their antics on to a jigsaw of screens behind the stage. They are affable Northern Irish and Scottish guys, who put in many years in the rock mines. You'd rather be stuck in a lift with them than Kasabian. Lightbody says dutifully rude things about George Bush. The singer's side project, the Reindeer Section, provided work for many a musician down on their luck. A Section song is reprised tonight, with guests Iain Archer on guitar and Declan O'Rourke on trumpet. And Snow Patrol have one claim to genuine greatness, current single 'Set the Fire to the Third Bar', the tension of which bears fruit: actual goosebumps. Martha Wainwright's ghostly vocal is taken by Miriam Kaufmann tonight, but the song's enchantment is intact.

 

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1973550,00.html

I went to see them in Glasgow last night. Was so great!! :D Gary said it was good to get home to his own bed! :heart:

 

Great pics fudge. Can you remember what most of the setlist was?

They are coming here to Auckland, New Zealand in February and I got my ticket on Sunday. Can't wait :)

None of my friends were interested unfortunately so I'm going by myself, but no reason for me to miss out just cos my friends don't wanna go. It will still be awesome. Will be my first ever gig haha.

OMG....I cannot believe the concert's tomorrow!!!

 

*dances* :D

 

OLD STUFF TOO! YAY!!!!

 

I might bring a lighter along.

Great pics! :nice:

The gig was fucking great.

 

I had Row 2 tix up on the balcony. GREAT SEATS! Saw everything no bother.

 

Everyone got up on their feet after Run, and the place went MENTAL when You're All I Have started.

 

Eclipsed Marlay Park in my opinion, absolute flawlessness, apart from Gary forgetting one line in Shut Your Eyes.

 

 

Setlist:

 

Spitting Games

Wow

Chocolate

It's Beginning To Get To Me

Headlights on Dark Roads

STARFIGHTER PILOT <--------- Brilliant :D

How To Be Dead

You Are My Joy

Grazed Knees

Chasing Cars

Shut Your Eyes

An Olive Grove Facing The Sea

Set The Fire To The Third Bar (with Lisa Hannigan) Fucking lighter...melting...

Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking

Make This Go On Forever (Sums it up)

Ways And Means

Run (Dedicated to us)

You're All I Have

 

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Run (With girls' choir)

Finish Line (Brilliant)

Open Your Eyes

Tiny Little Fractures

 

Great setlist, no? :)

Glad it was a great show Martin. 2 months until the show here, can't wait.

The gig was fucking great.

 

I had Row 2 tix up on the balcony. GREAT SEATS! Saw everything no bother.

 

Everyone got up on their feet after Run, and the place went MENTAL when You're All I Have started.

 

Eclipsed Marlay Park in my opinion, absolute flawlessness, apart from Gary forgetting one line in Shut Your Eyes.

 

 

Setlist:

 

Spitting Games

Wow

Chocolate

It's Beginning To Get To Me

Headlights on Dark Roads

STARFIGHTER PILOT <--------- Brilliant :D

How To Be Dead

You Are My Joy

Grazed Knees

Chasing Cars

Shut Your Eyes

An Olive Grove Facing The Sea

Set The Fire To The Third Bar (with Lisa Hannigan) Fucking lighter...melting...

Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking

Make This Go On Forever (Sums it up)

Ways And Means

Run (Dedicated to us)

You're All I Have

 

-------------------------

Run (With girls' choir)

Finish Line (Brilliant)

Open Your Eyes

Tiny Little Fractures

 

Great setlist, no? :)

 

Brilliant setlist!

I saw them at the M.E.N on the 29/11 and at the Gmex on the 15/12 both shows where brilliant,although my only complaint's are the number of fans who seemed like they'd rather be somewhere else except when they played chasing cars and run,and the set-list never changed so we never got post punk progression or black and blue.Anyway roll on the next tour!

anybody else thinks snow patrol's vocalist sounds like keane's vocalist, sometimes?

^^ Um that I have never thought of! Intresting!

 

Happy Birthday to Nathan!!! ( jan 6th)

 

And Happy early Birthday to Tom!!! Well 20 minutes early! ( jan 7th)

omg happy birthday nathan & tom!!!!

anybody else thinks snow patrol's vocalist sounds like keane's vocalist' date=' sometimes?[/quote']

 

Um no they sound totally different to me, but each to their own!

Um no they sound totally different to me' date=' but each to their own![/quote']

 

Agreed

Only a month till the concert!!:D

Gary does vocals on a track by Kidda.

 

www.myspace.com/kiddauk

 

It's called "Shining 1". :cool:

 

 

And, LOVE those pics, Fudge! :D