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The Forest Is The Path, out 13th September 2024. Pre-order now.

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Snow Patrol
3 months
Our new album, The Forest Is The Path, will be out on 13th September. You can pre-order it on our store now, we can’t wait for you to hear it. The Beginning, the first single from the album, is out now and we hope you enjoy it.
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Taylor’s Version of @taylorswift13 Red is out this week. Myself & @jacknifelee co-wrote with Taylor on The Last Time. I’m so honoured to sing with Taylor on the song too. The album is extraordinary, J & me are so happy to be involved Love & thx to Taylor & her amazing fans. gL.x
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JQ & I just done a a secret, last minute song with @edsheeran @LatitudeFest on the @OtherVoicesLive stage. Thank you lovely people! Fun! N x
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PAUL POGBA! @manutd
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4 years
Live gig on the SP Instagram page this Thursday at 7pm gmt. All songs apart from the ones I played last week are up for grabs and you can vote for any you want in the comments. I’ll play the ‘top ten’. Loads of love. gL.x
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Hi everyone. Am doing an acoustic gig live on the snow patrol Instagram tomorrow (Thursday 19th) at 7pm gmt. Hopefully see yous there. Please post requests here & I’ll do the most requested songs on this show and then do more shows to play the rest. Loads of love to you all. gL.x
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6 years
A gold record in this day and age is incredible news and we are overjoyed. Thank you to everybody who has bought ‘Wildness’. We love you all.
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Live gig this Thursday at 8pm gmt on @instagram live. Tweet your favourite from these ten songs and I’ll do the top 5 plus some SP ones. Hopefully see yous there. gL.x
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Our new album Wildness has gone in the charts at number 1 in Ireland & at 2 in the UK! Thanks so much everyone that bought it. After being away for 7 years we didn’t expect this! News coming in all day from around the world, thanks to all who bought the album. Loads of love! gL.x
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It’s been 18 years since we released Chasing Cars and the album it’s featured on, Eyes Open. Here we are playing it at the mighty Abbey Road Studios back in 2006. Lots of love everyone from us, and happy birthday Eyes Open. gL.x
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4 years
Anyone up for writing a song together join me on Instagram Live tomorrow at 7pm gmt. Be a bit of craic. More details and the second video over on the SP Instagram now. gL.x
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5 years
Happy birthday Gary! To our brother, lyricist and poet, singer, songwriter, frontman and loyal friend, simply... We love you. Xxx
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The 20th anniversary of Final Straw is out today. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years! Thank you all so much for your support of this record from 2003 all the way up to now. We are blown away by the love this album gets even now.
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Don’t Give In. 21st March.
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6 years
Happy new year everyone! Big love. Thanks for all the amazing support in 2018. Looking forward to going around the world again in 2019. See you on the road!x
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Snow Patrol
5 years
We’ve been working in the studio over the last few months on a project to celebrate 25 years of Snow Patrol. The first piece of music, Time Won’t Go Slowly, is coming out tomorrow.
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6 years
“Don’t Give In,” the first single from the new record, is out now. Also pleased to announce a host of small shows in Ireland, the UK & the US. Listen to “Don’t Give In,” pre-order ‘Wildness’ and get more show info at
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Snow Patrol
5 years
It’s incredible to think of all the things we have seen and done as Snow Patrol since we released the ‘Chasing Cars’ music video 13 years ago this month. Thank you all for sticking with us.
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5 years
Merry Christmas to everyone! We’ve had an amazing year, from releasing Reworked to touring the world and you’ve all been a massive part of it! We’ll be spending some extra special time with our families and friends and we hope you will be too. See you in 2020! SPx
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Thank you so much to every single person who came to see us during our #Reworked tour. Every night we played, you made it extra special and we loved touring the album! We’ll see everyone again very soon! SPx
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1 year
Final Straw is in the midweeks top 10! We are absolutely blown away. Thank you so much to everyone for your support, it means the world. gL. x
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Snow Patrol
6 years
WILDNESS. The new album. Pre-order now: Pre-order via the official store for first access to future tickets:
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Home for Christmas and I thought I should take a walk down to Ward Park before May…Merry Christmas everyone and thank you for the year we have had!
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Snow Patrol
5 years
As we wrap up the year, we want to say another massive thank you to each and every one of you! We’ve had some amazing highlights to the year and delighted we got to share lots of them with you guys. Happy New Year, SPx
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Wildness, our seventh album, is out now. We hope you like it. Listen here:
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Catch us on the @latelateshow with @JKCorden tonight!
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Thank you to everyone that’s bought or streamed the album or thinking of getting their hands on it. We are so moved and overjoyed by the response to the new album, Wildness. And so happy it’s finally out in the world. Loads of love. gL
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6 years
We are devastated to hear the news about our friend Scott Hutchison this morning. Sending all our love to his family, friends and band mates in frightened rabbit. Xxx
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Snow Patrol
4 years
hi everyone, i’m gonna do a covers gig on Facebook live this Thursday at 8.05pm. Here's a few songs to choose from. Please vote for your favourite & i’ll play the top 10. Some of these were on the list when i did the instagram live gig but i added a few more. loads of love. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
4 years
This was the exact time and date we walked on stage at Ward Park 3 in Bangor, NI. One of the very best nights of our lives. Thank you & so much love to all the amazing bands that played that day & to @ryanmcmusic and Bono for joining us on stage. SP.x 📷 @bradleyquinn01
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1 year
Final Straw (20th anniversary edition) will be out on 4th August. Stay tuned for lots more content coming over the next 3 weeks… SP.x
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Snow Patrol
2 years
Oh my god @LatitudeFest !! That was spectacular. You were such an incredible crowd. You’ve lifted our spirits up to the mountain top. Thank you all. And a massive thanks to @edsheeran for joining us, we love you. It was a magical night. We’ll never forget it. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
4 years
Reaching Out To You 30th July 15:00 BST
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Snow Patrol
4 years
Thanks so much to everyone that tuned into the gigs today on @Facebook & @instagram . 210k people tuned into some or all of the Facebook gig so it was the biggest gig I’ve ever done in jogging bottoms. Big love to everyone. It’s the #Saturdaysongwrite this Sat again on insta. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Thank you everyone that was at @TheO2 in London tonight. What a phenomenal crowd. Jeez the singing was insanely loud from yous all. Thank you. We’ll be back in London to play Wembley in a week. Massive love to you all. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
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WOW! Chasing Cars has passed half a billion streams on Spotify. Thank you all so much for your support! During our last tour @Kodaline recorded their own version of it. We’d love to hear your take on any of our songs. Please do share & tag us as we'll pick some to showcase! SPx
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Snow Patrol
6 years
This is our friend Robert Holmes singing the last song he ever wrote. Last week Robert took his own life. The song is (heartbreakingly) called Push Back The Darkness One More Day.
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Snow Patrol
3 months
The Beginning. Wednesday 29th May. 8.15pm BST. SPx Pre-save now:
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Holy moly Birmingham you were an unbefreakinglievable crowd! We’ll not forget tonight. Really, really special. Thank you all for coming to the @ArenaBirmingham tonight and giving so much of yourselves. In the words of Stardust ‘music sounds better with you’! Big love. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Wishing our brother @garysnowpatrol a big Happy Birthday and great year ahead! – Jonny, Nathan, Pablo, Johnny and the whole Snow Patrol crew. Photo by @bradleyquinn01
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Snow Patrol
4 years
Here’s a clip of the song we all wrote together as a collective on @instagram live today. Check out insta live for the next 24 hours to see it all come together. It was really fun. Thanks to everyone that took part. #saturdaysongwrite
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Snow Patrol
6 years
10 years to the day since we released this one! Hear it again:
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Snow Patrol
5 years
Our dear brother Johnny McDaid has been experiencing neck pain & requires surgery. Along with Nathan, we need to give our brothers time to heal & recover and are sorry to announce the cancellation of European shows. We hope you understand. gL.x Full info:
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Very pleased to announce the Wildness Tour, coming to UK and Ireland later this year. General tickets go on sale 8th June at 9amBST. More tour dates to be announced. For pre-sale access info, visit:
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Snow Patrol
4 years
Another #saturdaysongwrite today on insta and wrote another song together. Here’s a snippet (all I could fit on here) of it. All lyrics & chord suggestions by everyone on insta today. Was a big collaborative effort. Thank you to all of you. We’ll be doing it again next sat. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
6 years
As it’s #worldmentalhealthday today I thought I would share a few amazing writers, healers and philosophers that I read a lot. Loads of love everyone. Also it was clearly very important to me that I scratch my leg in the middle of this one min speech. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
5 years
Tonight we get to play one of the most iconic music venues in the world. It’s been a lifetime ambition of ours to play the @SydOperaHouse and tonight myself, Nate and @ryanmcmusic get to play it acoustically. What a dream! Thanks to everyone that bought tix and sold it out! gL.x
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5 years
I don’t know what to say about last night really other than WOW! Royal Albert Hall is the most extraordinary music venue on planet Earth and it was a privilege to play it again. Last night was our favourite time playing it. Thank you to everyone that was there.📷 @bradleyquinn01
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Snow Patrol
6 years
We’re going to be performing at @asuncionicopy in Asuncion, Paraguay which takes place 28 March and 3 April. Tickets are available now at
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6 years
What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?, the latest track to be taken from the forthcoming album Wildness, is out now. Listen and watch the official video:
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Snow Patrol
1 year
Hi everyone, As it has been 20 years since the initial release of Final Straw we are releasing an anniversary edition of the album with bonus tracks, live performances and demos. Including this little preview of the album, the original demo of Chocolate
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Snow Patrol
6 years
Just saw @GlennisGrace ’s performance of our song Run on @AGT . Wow! You smashed it. Amazing performance. Well done. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
4 years
Here’s the #saturdaysongwrite song from today. Thank you so much to everyone on their for chord and lyric suggestions. This is the 5th week and the 5th song. We’re batting a 1000. Did not expect to get a song each week! Here’s a snippet. Whole song on SP insta. gL.x
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Thank you so much everyone who came to the show in Thomond Park, Limerick last night. It was epic!
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Another step on the path… we’re putting out another track from our new album this week. It’s a special one to us. It’s not the next single, we just wanted you to hear some more of the album. It’s called ‘This Is The Sound Of Your Voice’ out this Friday, 5th July 🌱
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Snow Patrol
3 years
Over the moon at the news that Belfast has been honoured with UNESCO City of Music status. Richly deserved. So much great music has, does and will spring forth from all over NI. I’m also proud to be a patron of our bid. Big love, gary
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1 year
Here’s a clip of Run from Electric Picnic in Ireland last year. As we celebrate 20 years since Final Straw was released, it’s incredible that Run still gets this kind of response. This was one of the best festival moments for us last year. We won’t ever forget it. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
5 years
Thank you Ipswich for a fantastic night and to #EdSheeran for singing so sublimely with us tonight. Always so much fun singing with Ed. Great gig! Love to you all. gL.x #reworked .
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4 years
Here’s a snippet of the song we wrote during this weeks #saturdaysongwrite . Full song on SP’s @instagram . Thanks to everyone on there live today who wrote it with me. Was loads of fun yet again. That’s three songs in three Saturdays now. Same time next week. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
6 years
So excited to announce the first UK and Ireland shows today. Can’t wait to play. There will be more shows announced. This is just the first batch. So happy to get back on tour! gLx
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5 years
Reworked EP 1, out 9th August.
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6 years
More tomorrow...
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6 years
Thank you to the @NIMusicPrize for this award. I think it means I have to retire now! Thank you it is very humbling. Don’t really know what to say. Bodes well for my speech. gL.x
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Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody to receive award for ‘outstanding contribution to music’
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Just landed in Seattle. This city has given me so much. Three of the bands that changed my life: Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. And my NFL team the Seahawks. Thanks for all that Seattle. We always have fun here. So happy to be back. gL.x
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Snow Patrol
5 years
We’re so excited to show you all this incredible piece of street art by local artist @thisisfriz celebrating Ward Park 3! It’s in our hometown where we’ll be playing a one-day festival on May 25th. Call down and post your pictures of the mural and tag #WP3 ! 📸: @bradleyquinn01
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This was the 121st time I proposed to Nathan on stage. You know what they say: lucky number 122...gL.x
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This is a song about growing up in Northern Ireland, my parents, my grandmother, traveling around Ireland & having profound gratitude to be born on an island of such beauty, musical talent & warmth (of spirit, not weather). North, south, east & west. gL.x
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4 years
Reaching Out To You, taken from our new EP The Fireside Sessions is out now, the EP is out 21st August. All proceeds from sales, streaming downloads will go @trusselltrust . Pre-order the CD from our store and digital from all the usual services.
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Hi everyone, here’s Chocolate live at Somerset House in 2004. Up to this point we have been playing gigs for ten years mostly to about 40 people (if we were lucky). 2004 was the year that changes for us.
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We’re excited ro let you know that The Fireside Sessions, is out now. The Fireside Sessions is released under the name Snow Patrol and the Saturday Songwriters. Thank you all so much for your amazing lyrics, chords, spirit, humour and enthusiasm whilst collaborating with us SPx
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Snow Patrol
3 months
The Beginning. See you on Wednesday.
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4 months
Here is us with the wonderful Martha Wainwright, again at Abbey Road. When we were making Eyes Open in Grouse Lodge Studios in Ireland in 2006 we were listening to her eponymous debut album on repeat. It is a masterpiece. gL.x
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back in the day… This was a press shot for Final Straw. Back then, as you can see, I was slouching a lot. Happy to say my posture has (marginally) improved since then. gL.x
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Another #Saturdaysongwrite today at 7pm gmt live on the snow patrol Instagram. We wrote a good song together last week so let’s try to do it all again. Whether we get a song out of it or not it’ll be a bit of craic anyway. Lots of love and hopefully see yous later today. gL.x
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Here is the 4K video of Run. To be honest I have no idea what 4K means, what the K stands for, or how it’s different from the other versions of the video but I’m sure it’s good. The video shoot for this was in the middle of nowhere in jan standing in a river waving a flare. gL.x
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We’re really pleased to say Reworked is out now! Bonkers to still be going after 25 years & great to be able to celebrate it with these new versions of the songs. Thank you for buying the album & thank you all for your support this last quarter century: SP
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5 years
Very pleased to bring new music to you all. Listen to Time Won’t Go Slowly here:
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5 years
Thank you all who came to our show in Bogota tonight. Our first in Columbia. Such an incredible audience. It was so special. Apologies anyone that wanted to say hi after the show (we would normally) but we have a very early flight. Loads of love to you all. We will be back! gL.x
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Glasgow! Thank you for another awesome night in a city we have been blessed to have many awesome nights in. First time in the amazing @TheSSEHydro . Been too long since we played in Scotland. We’ll be playing a lot here this year! Thank you all. See you soon. gL.x
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Oh yes and my favourite guitar exploded because I was thumping it like a bass drum. Maybe the first guitar to explode at the @SydOperaHouse ? It might not be but I kinda hope so. Poor thing. Sorry to everyone at @LowdenGuitars , this can’t be an easy picture to look at. gL.x
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Well we weren’t sent this advert to approve as I’ve known how to spell the name of my hometown since I was about 4. Apologies to the people of my hometown BANGOR for the mistake. Getting it fixed as quickly as possible. Do join us at Ward Park though, it’s gonna be a BANGER! gL.x
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This is The Beginning, we hope you enjoy. SPx
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Some late night rehearsing the old tunes in my flat. Wee folky version of open your eyes for the late night vibes. Don’t worry the full blast version will still be the one we play in the set. gL More at
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hi everyone, we are doing another saturday songwrite today. in the first 7 weeks we have written 8 songs. hopefully there will be another one today. it’ll be fun as usual whatever happens. hopefully this video shows that. it’s very calm and easy going. lots of love. gL.x
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Thank you all very much for the lovely birthday wishes. Sending you all my love. See you when we see you. Stay safe. N x
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5 years
We are delighted to say everyone is fit and healthy enough again to resume the tour tomorrow in Manchester. Sorry about any inconvenience caused by the rescheduling of the shows that has gone on over the last week. See you back on the tour from tomorrow! SP.x
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Hi everyone. 1st show will be songs 30-21, 2nd show 20-11 and 3rd show the top ten. Each show on a different platform but starting with Instagram as that’s where the Saturday Songwrite sessions took place. The voting will close Sunday. Looking forward to it. Loads of love. gL.x
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In New York in 2009 holding a coffee cup like a briefcase and waving at nothing while Nathan holds a spider he found gently in his hands. If this ain’t a picture of a hangover I don’t know what it is. gL.x
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What a year this has been. Two weeks ago we spent two nights playing in Belfast to a home crowd and it was hard to put into words what it felt like. We will be back on the road in the new year, for dates just click below. Thank you!
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Join me tonight at 8.05pm (BST) for a live gig on Facebook. You've been voting for what Snow Patrol songs you'd like to hear and I’ll play the top ten. gL.x
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6 years
We've made a special alternative video for our single Empress. You can watch the full video here:
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We’re performing at @LollapaloozaCL , @LollapaloozaAR , and @LollapaloozaBR and tickets are now available. All info at
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Just played two in-store acoustic shows tonight at the @LimelightNI in Belfast organised by @hmvBelfast . Two amazing crowds. Thank you all. Always feels so good to play at home! We love you. gL.x
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We filmed the video for What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get on the freezing cold Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland in January. Watch now to find out how we got on... 📹: @bradleyquinn01
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Hey everyone, here is How To Be Dead live at Somerset house. We have very seldomly played this song live over the years so it’s a rarity. gL.x
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Sending our love to the city of Manchester and everyone affected by last nights tragedy xxx
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Here’s a little acoustic clip of Chasing Cars. It features on the new album, Reworked, which is out now! Get your copy of the album here: SPx
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