Snow Patrol is an alternative rock band originating from Scotland and Northern Ireland. 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. Now that the band have become feted as commercial giants - their last album Eyes Open was the UK's best-seller of 2006, it's worth remembering that Snow Patrol spent the 1990's so broke that at one low point Lightbody had to sell his re
1 | Making Enemies | When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up |
2 | Last Ever Lone Gunman | When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up |
3 | The Golden Floor | A Hundred Million Suns |
4 | Firelight | When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up |
5 | The Golden Floor | Up To Now [Disc 2] |
6 | Lifeboats | A Hundred Million Suns |
7 | Batten Down The Hatch | Up To Now [Disc 1] |
8 | Crack The Shutters | Up To Now [Disc 1] |
9 | Absolute Gravity | Songs For Polar Bears |
10 | Downhill From Here | Songs For Polar Bears |
11 | Cartwheels | Up To Now [Disc 1] |
12 | The Last Short Ring In My Ears | Songs For Polar Bears |
13 | Dark Roman Wine | Up To Now [Disc 2] |
14 | Just Say Yes | Up To Now [Disc 1] |
15 | Run | Up To Now [Disc 2] |
16 | Ask Me How I Am | When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up |
17 | Favourite Friend | Songs For Polar Bears |
18 | You're All I Have (Radio Edit) | Eyes Open |
19 | If I'd Found The Right Words To Say | When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up |
20 | Shut Your Eyes | Eyes Open |