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Snow Patrol

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Snow Patrol: Licensed to Chill

Interview by Stuart Bailie, Hot Press, 3 February 1999

IT'S THE last song of the night. It's the final gig of the year one that has witnessed bizarre accidents, frustrations, some classic moments and ...

Snow Patrol: Witchwood, Ashton-Under-Lyne

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 August 2003

SNOW PATROL have had a curious journey. They began as Belfast popsters the Polar Bears. Then they moved to Glasgow and became fey, jangly contemporaries ...

Snow Patrol: Final Straw

Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 20 April 2004

ONE OF THE REASONS we listen to music is because it provides a vehicle for expressing feelings that would otherwise go unexpressed. Rage, passion, fear, ...

Snow Patrol: Brixton Academy

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 1 December 2004

A NONDESCRIPT bunch of blokes from Scotland, they spent several years fine-tuning an unremarkable indie-rock formula until they eventually started to sell albums in the ...

Snow Patrol: Koko, London

Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 14 April 2006

WHATEVER Snow Patrol spent the earnings from their last, two-million-selling album on, it wasn't their wardrobe. Or a personal trainer. In this warm-up for a ...

Run For Cover: Snow Patrol

Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 July 2006

HE IS KNOWN as indie rock’s Mister Nice Guy. But despite selling two million albums, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody remains a charisma-free zone. ...

Snow Patrol: NIA Birmingham

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 30 November 2006

THIS IS a big week for Snow Patrol. On Sunday their fourth album, Eyes Open, was certified as the bestselling UK release of 2006, with ...

Snow Patrol: The Finish Line

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 6 September 2007

IN 2002 WHEN Rip It Up first spoke to Snow Patrol's frontman Gary Lightbody, his Scottish-based band was at a pivotal crossroad. ...

Snow Patrol, Cajun Dance Party, Roisin Murphy: Union Chapel, London

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 27 November 2007

THIS LATEST ACOUSTIC BILL in aid of Mencap has an easy, diverse charm. The headliners Snow Patrol play their part, but they are far from ...

Snow Patrol: "We're not ready for greatest hits"

Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 30 October 2009

Though their music may be ubiquitous, Snow Patrol are relatively anonymous pop stars — much to the modest band's relief. ...

Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 11 November 2011

YOU WOULDN'T imagine one man could feel so much: like its two immediate predecessors Eyes Open and A Hundred Million Suns, this latest Snow Patrol ...

Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires

Review by Jon Young, Spin, 10 January 2012

COOLER THAN COLDPLAY but less provocative than R.E.M., the Irish-Scottish modern-rock quintet Snow Patrol embrace the "bigger is better" philosophy on their sixth studio album, ...

Snow Patrol: The O2, London ***

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 February 2012

WHEN SNOW PATROL released Fallen Empires, the 2011 album that comprises a substantial part of this gig, singer Gary Lightbody revealed that the new record ...

Duran Duran, Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini, Snow Patrol: Olympic Concert, Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 28 July 2012

Snow Patrol, Simon Le Bon and Ricky Gervais's beard strike a chord ...

Snow Patrol: O2 Arena, London – drifting along in a clinical quest for love

Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 27 January 2019

SNOW PATROL HAVE BEEN AWAY but absence has not dimmed their mass appeal. This first tour for seven years, in support of last year's moderately ...

Snow Patrol: How they made 'Run'

Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 26 November 2019

"I WENT ON a three-day bender in Glasgow and woke up blind in one eye with teeth missing. After I recovered, songs started pouring out ...

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