Snow Patrol

History
Dundee, United Kingdom (1994 – present)
Snow Patrol is an alternative rock band which formed in Dundee, Scotland in 1994 and currently based in Bangor, Northern Ireland, where most of the band members are from. They consist of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, vocals), Paul Wilson (bass), Tom Simpson (keyboards) and Johnny Quinn (drums). Lightbody and Quinn are the only original members who remain in the band. The band became wildly successful on both sides of the Atlantic on the back of their fourth record, 2006’s “Eyes Open” and the ballad “Chasing Cars” - a song that has spent a near-record breaking 90 weeks on the UK Top 75. Some of their other well known songs are “Run”, “Spitting Games”, “You’re All I Have”, “Hands Open” and “Take Back the City”.
The main thing to get about Snow Patrol is that, 14 years after they started out as a student band at Dundee University, they’re still flying, gloriously and unpredictably, by the seat of their pants. “The great and terrifying thing about our band,” declares their leader and main songwriter Gary Lightbody, “Is that everything has always happened as it’s going along. There’s been very little masterplan. We allow things to happen as much by accident as by deliberate intention.” One notable early accident was their name. Lightbody’s band used to be known as Polar Bear - hence their 1998 debut album Songs For Polarbears - but were obliged to change it after discovering that this was what the bassist of Jane’s Addiction was calling his side project. ‘Snow Patrol’ had already been chosen for them by a friend who didn’t care for the Polar Bear moniker; and so it came to pass that Snow Patrol signed in 1995 to the Jeepster label, home of their Glaswegian indie heroes at the time, Belle and Sebastian.
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A Hundred Million Suns



Tracklist:
1.If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It
2.Crack the Shutters
3.Take Back the City
4.Lifeboats
5.The Golden Floor
6.Please Just Take These Photos from My Hand
7.Set Down Your Glass
8.The Planets Bend Between Us
9.Engines
10.Disaster Button
11.The Lightning Strike: What If This Storm Ends?/The Sunlight Through the Fla




Eyes Open



Tracklist:
1 You're All I Have
2 Hands Open
3 Chasing Cars
4 Shut Your Eyes
5 It's Beginning to Get to Me
6 You Could Be Happy
7 Make This Go On Forever
8 Set the Fire to the Third Bar
9 Headlights on Dark Roads
10 open Your Eyes
11 The Finish Line




Final Straw



Tracklist:
1 How to Be Dead
2 Wow
3 Gleaming Auction
4 Whatever's Left
5 Spitting Games
6 Chocolate
7 Run
8 Grazed Knees
9 Ways & Means
10 Tiny Little Fractures
11 Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking
12 Same




When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up



Tracklist:
1 Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
2 Ask Me How I Am
3 Making Enemies
4 Black and Blue
5 Last Ever Lone Gunman
6 If I'd Found the Right Words to Say
7 Batten Down the Hatch
8 One Night Is Not Enough
9 Chased By... I Don't Know What
10 On/Off
11 An Olive Grove Facing the Sea
12 When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up
13 Make Love to Me Forever
14 Firelight




Songs for Polar Bears



Tracklist:
1 Downhill From Here
2 Starfighter Pilot
3 The Last Shot Ringing in My Ears
4 Absolute Gravity
5 Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool
6 Mahogany
7 NYC
8 Little Hide
9 Make Up
10 Velocity Girl
11 Days Without Paracetamol
12 Fifteen Minutes Old
13 Favourite Friend
14 One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed
15 Marketplace
16 I Could Stay Away Forever
17 Sticky Teenage Twin
18 Holy Cow
19 When You're Right You're Right