Snow Patrol
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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: 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, 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: 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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: 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 ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 July 2006
HE IS KNOWN as indie rocks Mister Nice Guy. But despite selling two million albums, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody remains a charisma-free zone. ...
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