Artist: Snow Patrol Genre(s):
Indie
Alternative
Pop: Pop-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Eyes Open Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Final Straw Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Songs for Polar Bears Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Featuring a dynamic fusion of various alternative stylistic touchstones, Snow Patrol's compositions combine songwriting aptitude with guitar rock's sharpest strains. Originally from Northern Ireland, Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar) and Mark McClelland (bass voice, keyboards) first got unitedly in Dundee, Scotland, where they were perusing, prior to the addition of Jonny Quinn (drums), wHO completed the lineup. Signed to the U.K.'s Jeepster label in 1998, they released their debut record album,
Songs for Polar Bears, in August of that same year. The record was a big success across the U.K., where they as well gained a big fan base for their live show. The British trio calibrated before long after, and decided to act from Dundee to Glasgow in late 2000. Their secondment full-length,
When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up, was released in April 2001. Quickly thenceforth, guitarist Nathan Connolly was added to the radical, and Snow Patrol institute themselves a apportion with Polydor. Producer Chris Lord-Alge sign on for the release of
Net Straw, which appeared stateside in April 2004. With the success of singles such as "Hot chocolate," "Track down," and "Expectoration Games,"
Final Straw sold deuce billion copies in their native U.K. It likewise became the twenty-sixth most popular British album of that class. In March 2005, foundation member Mark McClelland left the band to follow other avenues, going Snow Patrol a triad with Lightbody, Quinn, and Connolly. Shortly thereafter, other Terra Diablo freshwater bass histrion Paul Wilson and touring keyboardist Tom Simpson were permanantly added to the band. An opening slot on U2's Vertigo Tour of Europe followed in summer 2005. Snow Patrol's fourth album, the epical
Eyes Open arrived in May 2006. That fall, with a successful endure through North America under their belted ammunition and the mainstream appeal of "Chasing Cars,"
Eyes Open was certified atomic number 79. Snow Patrol likewise became the first base U.K. rock act in 13 age to break the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot century Singles Chart.
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