Snow Patrol is a Northern Irish rock band formed in 1993, composed of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Originally an indie rock band, the band became famous in the early mid-2000s as part of the post-Britpop movement.
The band was founded at the University of Dundee in 1993 by Lightbody, Michael Morrison, and Mark McClelland as Shrug. After briefly using the name Polarbear and releasing the EP Starfighter Pilot (1997) and losing Morrison as a member, the band became Snow Patrol in 1997 and added Quinn to the line-up. Their first two studio albums,
Connolly joined Snow Patrol in 2002, and after their major-label debut album,
During their career, Snow Patrol has won seven Meteor Ireland Music Awards and has been nominated for six Brit Awards. Since the release of Final Straw , the band has sold over 13 million albums worldwide.
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Histori
Awal tahun (1993-1997)
Originally formed in late 1993 by Dundee University students Gary Lightbody, Michael Morrison and Mark McClelland
as Shrug, the band started by performing at universities and pubs around it like Lucifer Mill. Their first EP was titled "The Yogurt vs. Yoghurt Debate." In 1996, they changed their name to Polar Bear (or Polarbear) to avoid problems with American bands also called Shrug. Shortly after, drummer Michael Morrison left the band after suffering a nuisance and returned to Northern Ireland. In mid-1997, Polar Bear released a three-track EP, Starfighter Pilot , on the Electric Honey label. The band changed its name again, this time into Snow Patrol in 1997, due to a naming conflict with another band with the same name that was fronted by Eric's former Ericist Ericist, Eric Avery. At this point, Jonny Quinn, from Northern Ireland, joins as a fixed drummer.
Songs for Polarbears and When Everything Is Over We Should Clean (1997-2001)
Snow Patrol joined the independent Jeepster label in 1997, Belle & amp; Sebastian. Jeepster has the same idea for Snow Patrol as their approach with Belle & amp; Sebastian, who has become popular with word-of-mouth, without heavy promotion. The band likes to be associated with indie labels, because it gives them greater freedom than major labels. At the time, they were quoted as saying they expected Jeepster would not expect them to have a strict work ethic or focus too much on promotional efforts.
Snow Patrol's debut album is Songs for Polarbears , released in 1998 after the band began living in Glasgow. Lightbody then works at Nice n Sleazy's Bar on Sauchiehall Street. The album was a critical success, but did not make a commercial impact. That same year, the band was almost favored in worldwide advertising for Philips. Gomez was finally signed. In 1999, the band won "Phil Lynott Award for Best New Band" by Irish music magazine Hot Press. In 2001, still living in Glasgow, the band followed up with When It's All More Than We Still Have to Clean . Like its predecessor, the album was praised by critics, but it was not sold.
The band started to work harder by doing more tours, but kept in control. They sleep on the fans' floor after the concert and pretend to be members of Belle & amp; Sebastian goes into the nightclub. They owe rent to their landlords and usually receive periodic visits and letters from them when touring. After the failure of the second album, the band began to realize that the loose attitudes of labels to management and promotional recording, the quality that initially attracted the band to the Jeepster, seemed to hold them back. The band's manager at the time was Danny McIntosh. Lightbody describes it as "the most angry man in pop: great, great guy". He said that he loved the band "with every atom in his body", and never got mad at them. He has praised him by keeping the band together in those years. McIntosh has a gold-colored bus splitter in which the band is used for traveling to play concerts.
Jeepster lowered Snow Patrol in 2001, a decision criticized by Hot Press magazine as having no brains. In July 2001, many major labels began to show interest in Snow Patrol, but the band lacked money and did not have a record deal. Lightbody sold the main part of his record collection to raise money to keep the band going. Lightbody calls the "miserable" time, but is sure to soon sign another label. However, the music world in England has turned its attention to American bands and British bands are not signed. The band spent this time constantly writing songs. Lightbody, bored at this point, gathered The Reindeer Section, a Scottish supergroup, and found a record label to release a group record. Quinn says that although the time is difficult for everyone involved except Nathan, the question of separation will never arise. It was during this time that the band wrote "Run" (which has existed since 2000) in a room on an acoustic guitar, which then became a breakthrough single band. The band "low point" came when they played a concert for 18 people at a popular strip club in High Wycombe. The show took place in the ugly VIP area, and management had to unplug the poles used by pole dancers to make room for the band to play, something Gary would be joking about at Wembley Arena sold out. Quinn called the show "horrendous". Desperate for attention, the band raised Ã, Â £ 200 to run for Mercury Prize, but failed to get elected.
Final Straw (2002-2005)
In 2002, the band began to be managed and published by Jazz Summers of Big Life.
Guitarist Nathan Connolly, formerly a member of the File Under Easy Listening band had worked in HMV's storage space in Belfast at the time. Connolly and the band have a mutual friend, who introduces them to him. Connolly moved to Glasgow to join the band in the spring of 2002.
During the years of Lightbody and McClelland at the University of Dundee, they have been noticed by Richard Smernicki, a senior student. Through Richard, Paul's brother has also known the band. Richard graduated in 1996, two years before Lightbody and McClelland, to represent Scotland A & amp; Polydor. Paul becomes Polyvorist's Coverage and Development Manager and Fiction label manager. Then, Jim Chancellor, an executive of A & amp; R for Fiction, and fellow talent seekers Alex Close approached the band in Glasgow to listen to their demos, and rated them on "quality songs", according to Lightbody. The Chancellor introduced them to producer Jacknife Lee, who despite being a guitarist in the 90s the punk rock band Compulsion had no rock production experience at the time, was known at the time for his work with Basement Jaxx and Eminem.
Final Straw was released on August 4, 2003, under the Black Lion, a subsidiary of Polydor Records. The music was along the same lines as the band's first two albums, and there was no attempt to turn the sound into something more radio-friendly. The album, along with "Run" (which debuted at No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart), gave the band their first taste of mainstream success. The record peaked at No. 3 in the English Album Album. They followed the success of "Run" with three singles from the album: "Chocolate", and the re-release of "Spitting Games", both reached the top 30, and "How to Be Dead" reached number 39.
The release of Final Straw in the United States in 2004 saw the album sold over 250,000 copies and became the 26th most popular album in the UK that year. In mid-2005, during their tour to support Final Straw, the band toured with U2 as an opening act on the Vertigo U2 Tour in Europe. The band then returns to the United States to continue the tour to support Final Straw . That summer also watched Snow Patrol play a short set in London at a worldwide charity concert Live 8. After completing their opening duties and an extensive 2-year tour of Final Straw at the end of July, the band picked up some week off and start writing and recording songs for new albums. The new version of Snow Patrol from "Isolation" John Lennon was released on December 10, 2005 as part of the Amnesty International campaign, Make Some Noise. The song was later released on the 2007 John Lennon tribute album, Instant Karma: Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
Eyes Open and success worldwide (2005 -2007)
On March 16, 2005, McClelland left the band, with Lightbody declaring 'a new set of new and unexpected pressure... unfortunately took their toll on a working relationship in the band, and it was felt the band could not move forward with Mark. as a member. 'At the end of March 2005, former Terra Diablo member Paul Wilson was announced as the official replacement for McClelland and Snow Patrol also declared the old Tom Simpson tour as an official member of the band.
The band completed the recording of Eyes Open in December 2005, with Jacknife Lee returning for production, and the album was released on April 28, 2006 in Ireland, and England on May 1, 2006, with the first UK single "You ' re All I Have "was released on April 24, 2006. The album was released in North America on May 9th. While "Hands Open" was the first American single, "Chasing Cars" pushed its way into downloads and pop charts after being heard during the second season's emotional closing scene of Gray's Anatomy on May 15, 2006. Due to the song's surprise popularity The album was released as an overlapping single in early June and the video was re-recorded to include clips from the show. "Chasing Cars" was also nominated for 'Best Single' at the 2006 Grammy Awards.
The band was forced to postpone most of the US Open Eye tour after a polyp was found on the Lightbody vocal cords, and failed to heal after an initial delay of three dates on the tour. Date rescheduled for August and September. This year will continue to be difficult in the band for the US leg of their tour, as they are also forced to cancel two west coast festival appearances in mid-August due to the threat of terrorist attacks on US-bound flights from Britain. Two members of the band made it to the US while two people were trapped in London. Furthermore, they all managed to reach the only US tour that stopped in Boston a few days later but failed to recover their belongings, forcing them to shop for clothes at Newbury St. that afternoon. Their equipment arrived a few hours before the show time, just in time for sound proofing. The band also had to cancel the appearance in Germany and France after bassist Paul Wilson injured his left arm and shoulder.
On November 26, 2006, Eyes Open has become the best-selling album in the UK this year, overtaking the previous leader What People Say Me, That's What I'm Not of the Arctic Monkey. Despite the very strong sales for Take That Beautiful World album, Eyes Open won a record-breaking British album title in 2006, with sales of 1.6 million. The album achieved platinum certification in the US as well, selling over 1,000,000 copies, and it maintained its place in the top quarter of the Billboard 200 list for over fifteen weeks, at the heels of popularity "Pursuing the cars". The band also holds the distinction of owning one of the albums and top downloads of iTunes in 2006. Ahead of the February band's tour, Eyes Open topped the Australian charts about eight months after being released on January 22, 2006. Back home in Ireland, Eyes Open became one of the best-selling albums of all time, topping the charts from late 2006 to early mid-2007, and has remained on the charts until now.
At the 2007 Grammy Awards, "Chasing Cars" was nominated for Best Rock Song, and at the 2007 Brit Awards, the song was nominated for Best British Singles.
September 1, 2007 saw Snow Patrol headlining a "mini-festival" home coming up at Lightbody and Jonny Quinn in the town of Bangor, County Down. About 30,000 people came to see the band.
One Million Suns (2008- 2009 )
Lightbody stated that footage for the follow-up to Eyes Open will begin in Autumn 2006, with Jacknife Lee returning for the third time for production. Since then the band has stated that they want to take a year off after the back-to-back Final Straw and Eyes Open tour and are meant to appear at the end of 2008. with their next album.
A post, dated May 23, 2008 on the band's official website stated that the recording for the next album had been going on for a week; they started on May 19, 2008. The new album, titled A Hundred Million Suns , was released on October 24, 2008 in Ireland and October 27 in the UK and USA. The first single titled "Take Back the City" was released in Ireland on October 10, 2008. Filming for "Take Back the City" music video took place on August 11, 2008 in Central London. The music video is directed by Alex Courtes.
The band embarked on Take Back the Cities tour on October 26, 2008. Singer Miriam Kaufmann toured with the band and sang backing vocals, especially on "Set the Fire to the Third Bar", which originally featured Martha Wainwright. The 'UK & amp; Irish Arena 'tour ends on March 23rd. The last show was played at Odyssey in Belfast to 9,000 strong men including family and friends of the band, and Northern Ireland football squad. It was also reported that the band played with about 200,000 fans during the tour.
The band next visited South Africa to play some dates at the Coca-Cola Zero Festival, supporting Oasis before embarking on a European tour. In June they support Coldplay for a month on the Viva la Vida Tour, and join the U2 360Ã, ° Tour in July/August.
The band also released a compilation album featuring songs from the band's 15 year history, Up To Now, on November 9, 2009. It includes thirty songs that include two CDs, three of which are original new songs. "Just Say Yes", a song written by Lightbody and previously recorded by Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and X Factor star Diana Vickers, was released as the lead single on November 2nd. The album also contains single, cover, and rare songs, including songs from the side-project The Reindeer Section. Limited edition coffee table book is also being worked on. The band also wants to make a future documentary tour on U2's Rattle and Hum line.
In December 2009, PPL announced "Chasing Cars" is the most widely played song for a decade in the UK. In the same month, in a British poll conducted by Channel 4, it was chosen as the nation's favorite "song of noughties". In January 2010, the band was nominated in three categories in the annual Meteor Awards. The band also plays on an event scheduled for February 19, 2010 at The RDS. Fallen Empires (2010-2012) Fallin Empires (2010-2012) Fallin Empires (2010-2012) Fallin Empires <2010>
Snow Patrol says they will enter the "next phase" with their sixth album. The band took a new musical direction, and Connolly advised fans to keep an open mind about the new material. On January 12, 2011, Lightbody launched a blog to provide details about the progress of the next release of the band.
Snow Patrol released the single "Called Out in the Dark" (remixed by Fatboy Slim) for radio airing on Thursday, July 21, 2011 on BBC Radio 1 on the radio show Zane Lowe. According to official sources, the single itself will be released independently and as part of the EP later and the release date of the UK is said to be September 4th. More details about the EP were announced on August 3, when the group's website revealed the contents of artwork and playlists. Along with the new single, the release contains three new songs titled "My Brothers", "I'm Ready", and "Fallen Empires". In addition, it was revealed that the EP was intended to be a limited digital release in the UK and Ireland.
Shortly after the premiere of the new lead single, the quintet's official website confirmed the news that the new album's name was Fallen Empires . Fallen Empires was released on 14 November 2011 in the UK and launched in O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. Singer-songwriter Johnny McDaid, after being involved in the album as a guest musician and songwriter, will then join the band on the next tour and eventually become a full member of Snow Patrol.
The second single from Fallen Empires is "This Notn't Everything You Are", released on November 13, 2011.
Hits Largest (2013-2018)
The band released a compilation titled Greatness Hits on May 14, 2013. The single version of the song "The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)", Featured in the animated film footage 2013 Epic , made a compilation album debut after it was released.
Snow Patrol became the title of the Vital Tennent festival in August 2013 and performed a special warm-up show in London before the festival. Lightbody said in an interview that "[they] will perform so [they] have not rusted yet". After the show, the band announced that Simpson would leave the band. At their Vital Tennent concert, Lightbody announced that it would be Simpson's last night with the band.
Bat (2018-present)
The follow-up for Fallen Empires will initially be released in 2016. The previous report suggests new material will be released in 2015. Lightbody told NME that he must overcome the fight from the author's block and that songs written for new albums are removed before being replaced by new "confusing" materials.
On January 28, 2018, the social media band announced the upcoming release of their seventh studio album, titled Wildness , to be released on May 25, 2018. The promotional video shows only lead vocalist Gary Lightbody hovering over a raft with a piano and seems to be trying to call someone who is engaged.
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Recognition
The success of Snow Patrol has influenced the Belfast music world that is growing positively. This includes Lightbody, who returned to the city and now lives there. The band's goodwill toward local bands, in part by founding Polar Music, and Lightbody being an active part of Oh Yeah Music Center have generated high optimism on the scene.
Musicians, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Bono (from U2), Michael Stipe (from R.E.M.), and Nikki Sixx (from MÃÆ'¶tley CrÃÆ'¼e and Sixx AM), also expressed their admiration for Snow Patrol. Terri Hooley, founder of the Good Vibrations label and lifelong supporter of local Northern Irish music, has proudly stated with bands like Snow Patrol.
Other activities
Snow Patrol has founded Polar Music, a publishing company run through Cobalt Music. The company is independent of the band's publishing deal with Universal Music. Polar Music will sign artists regardless of their genre, as drummer Jonny Quinn explains: "no agenda - if that's good enough and we trust him 110%, we'll sign it." Quinn, and his fellow band members, Connolly and Lightbody, act as A & amp; R. The company's first signing was Johnny McDaid, formerly of the Northern Irish band Vega4. Quinn says that they want to sign artists for a one-album deal, and do not want to put undue pressure on artists with larger multi-year deals. Polar Music had its first chart chart in the first week of October 2009.
Gary Lightbody and Tom Simpson are fans of the Dundee F.C football club. In 2008, they met with the club's board of directors to find ways to financially help cash-strapped clubs. The band also has a stake in the Houndstooth Pub in New York City.
Philanthropy
On November 25, 2007, Snow Patrol performed an acoustic session for the Mencap charity, at Union Chapel, Islington. They are one of the major bands to take part in the project, called "Little Noise Sessions" curated by Jo Whiley.
In 2009, Gary Lightbody and Nathan Connolly donated plectrums and certificates to the Beats Mines project aimed at clearing unexploded landmines from conflict zones. The items are auctioned on eBay.
band members
- Timeline
Discography
- Studio album
- Songs for Polarbears (1998)
- When Everything's Over We Should Clean (2001)
- Final Straw (2003)
- Open Eyes (2006)
- One Million Suns (2008)
- Fallen Empires (2011)
- Wildness (2018)
Contribution
Gary Lightbody is featured in a song titled "The Last Time" of Taylor Swift 2012 album Red .
Snow Patrol released their 22nd album in the series Late Night Tales from a mixed album by artist, which has been curated by Lightbody and Simpson. The band covered INXS's song "New Sensation" for this event. Lightbody has also talked about plans to release a song from Listen... Tank! project (with producer Snow Patrol Jacknife Lee) and Tired Pony, a group of countries.
The band donated the song "Signal Fire" to the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack and the movie. This song is the main single from the soundtrack and is featured in credits for movies.
The band also contributed to the 2011 compilation Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute to John Martyn , where they covered the song from 1973's album "Solid Air " May You Never ".
In 2014, the band contributed a new song "I Will not Let You Go" to the soundtrack for Divergen .
Awards
"Chasing Cars" was voted the decade song of Channel 4 'The Song of the Decade' which aired on December 28, 2009. On 30 December 2009, PPL announced "Chasing Cars" is the most played song of a decade in the UK.
In June 2010, the band was celebrated with a Heritage Award by PRS for Music. A plaque was set up at the Duke of York pub in Belfast where the band performed their first performance. The band is sixth to receive the award, with all members out. They then do the set directly to a small crowd of about 30 people.
Concert tour
Appearance
On July 30, 2006, Snow Patrol appeared at the end of the long-standing BBC music show Top of the Pops , featuring "Chasing Cars". This band is the last action ever to appear on the show.
Snow Patrol recorded live sessions at Abbey Road Studios for Live from Abbey Road on October 4, 2006. These appearances included in the episodes were shared with Madeleine Peyroux and Red Hot Chili Peppers and featured in the UK on Channel 4 and US on Sundance Channel.
Snow Patrol appeared as a musical guest on the episode of 17 March 2007 Saturday Night Live , hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. They feature "You're All I Have" and "Chasing Cars". The band toured Japan in April, followed by European, Mexican and US festival dates in the summer. They ended their tour in Australia in September 2007.
On July 7, 2007, the band performed at the foot of UK Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London. Shortly after the band's performance, Simpson was arrested at RAF Northolt for missing a court date in Glasgow, which was charged with possession of cocaine.
The band performed at HMV Forum in 2011.
On July 27, 2012, Snow Patrol performed at Hyde Park, London, as part of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.
On April 6, 2018, Snow Patrol appeared on the BBC's "Sounds Like Friday Night" music show.
See also
- Snow Patrol - Wikipedia book
References
External links
- Official website
- Michael Morrison's homage page for Shrug
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