Snow Patrol

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Bangor, Northern Ireland (1994 – present)

Snow Patrol is a Bangor, Northern Ireland based alternative rock band. Formed in Scotland by vocalist/guitarist Gary Lightbody and former bassist/keyboardist Mark McClelland, they achieved sudden success with the

Run single after years of obscurity in much the same way as Pulp. Originally highly lo-fi and guitar-driven, the band generally combine alternative rock with Coldplay style indie to create tasteful tales of relationships good and bad.

Originally formed in late 1994 as “Shrug”, the band started by performing gigs at Dundee University and the surrounding pubs before changing their name to “Polar Bear” (or “Polarbear”) in late 1995.

In mid 1997, they released a three-track EP, Starfighter Pilot, on the Electric Honey label. Richard Colburn, from Glaswegian indie band Belle and Sebastian, played drums on this record, and Stuart Murdoch, from the same band, sang on one of the b-sides. Due to legal threats from an American band with the same name (led by Eric Avery, the former bassist of Jane’s Addiction), they became “Snow Patrol”. There is a “thank you” to Gary’s English tutor Peter Easingwood in the sleeve notes of the original ‘Starfighter Pilot’.

At this point, Jonny Quinn, from Northern Ireland, joined as permanent drummer. With him rounding out the lineup, the band released their next EP Little Hide on Jeepster Records while still living in Dundee (its cover was a blurred photo of a football (soccer) crowd watching Dundee United at Tannadice Park). A follow-up single “One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed” was a minor independent chart hit. Both of these early singles were heavily promoted by Jeepster - with videos included as computer files on the CD singles, and Snow Patrol starting to appear on television.

1	Chasing Cars full track	10,950
2	Run	5,864
3	Open Your Eyes full track	5,459
4	Shut Your Eyes full track	4,547
5	Hands Open full track	4,392
6	You Could Be Happy full track	4,311
7	Make This Go On Forever full track	3,679
8	You're All I Have full track	3,666
9	Chocolate	2,560
10	Spitting Games full track	2,505
11	How to Be Dead	2,180
12	Headlights On Dark Roads full track	2,110
13	Set The Fire To The Third Bar full track	2,070
14	Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking	2,051
15	It's Beginning To Get To Me full track	2,035

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Eyes Open
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Final Straw
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Songs for Polarbears
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Live at T in the Park 2004
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glass_soul wrote:
4 hours ago

YEY! NEW SNOW PATROL CD OUT OCTOBER 27th !

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tape_tv wrote:
6 hours ago

Noch mehr Videos von Snow Patrol gibts auf tape.tv http://www.tape.tv/artist/snow%20patrol Viel Spaß beim Angucken!

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WhiteTapes wrote:
Wednesday morning

Review zu The Verve's "Forth" bei WhiteTapes.de - the indie zine: http://whitetapes.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-verve-forth-2/

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LithiumIon wrote:
Tuesday evening

one of the gems i thought we had lost....

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MyBlackTears wrote:
Tuesday morning

All that I am All that I ever was Is here in your perfect eyes They're all I can see

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Baculaat wrote:
Tuesday morning

great melodies. really good

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Chaaarlie_ wrote:
Monday evening

Final Straw is such a great album.

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Strawberrytear wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Just waiting for the new album!

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storvikarn wrote:
Saturday morning

Are you a working class hero? Join Working Class Heroes! (note that this group do not support any kind of government)

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marc31en wrote:
7 days ago

love that one ... the very best one of s,p,

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coops45 wrote:
7 days ago

agree with you completely, glad to hear that there are others! Whenever i say "im a fan of Snow Patrol" all i seem to get as a response is something about Chasing Cars! :) Anyone seen them live?

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n0LiMiT5 wrote:
8 days ago

i think people like it so much because it's their purest love song, just love. but i definitely listen to chasing cars the least. it's a great song and all, but there's so many better songs from them... chocolate is one of their most underrated songs.

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ashdianand wrote:
8 days ago

Chasing cars is definitely down on the list of their awesomeness.

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jedilightsaber wrote:
8 days ago

you are not the only one

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coops45 wrote:
8 days ago

am i the only one that thinks Final Straw is an absolutely fantastic album? and that chasing cars is probably there 20th best song? theres so much more to this band than that song.

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dw0_7aw wrote:
8 days ago

RUN ONLY RUN

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emmerlie wrote:
9 days ago

Let's waste time.. chasing cars.. around our heads..

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GadDi3L wrote:
9 days ago

Chasing Cars <3

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Murcego wrote:
9 days ago

The better Band of last years!

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anna0607 wrote:
10 days ago

100 million suns....i want it :D

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