Snow Patrol

Surge Tracks

• Signal Fire
• Open Your Eyes
• Set The Fire To The Third Bar (feat. Martha Wainwright)
• Chasing Cars
• Run (Live)
• You're all I have (Live)
• You're all I have
• How To Be Dead
• Spitting Games
• Chocolate
• Run

Artist Biography

Snow Patrol is an indie rock band from Northern Ireland (although the band was formed in Scotland by vocalist/guitarist Gary Lightbody and bassist/keyboardist Mark McClelland). Achieving sudden success after years of obscurity in much the same way as Pulp, Snow Patrol mix Coldplay-style indie, and alternative rock to create tasteful tales of relationships good and bad.

Originally formed in late 1994 as "Shrug", the band started by performing gigs at Dundee University and the surrounding pubs before changing their name to "Polar Bear" (or "Polarbear") in late 1995.

In mid 1997, they released a three-track EP, Starfighter Pilot, on the Electric Honey label. Richard Colburn, from Glaswegian indie band Belle & Sebastian, played drums on this record, and Stuart Murdoch, from the same band, sang on one of the b-sides. Due to legal threats from an American band with the same name (led by Eric Avery, the former bassist of Jane's Addiction), they became "Snow Patrol". There is a "thank you" to Gary's English tutor Peter Easingwood in the sleeve notes of the original 'Starfighter Pilot'.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Eyes Open (2006-05-01)
Final Straw (2003-08-04)
Songs for Polarbears (1998-08-31)
When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up (2001-03-05)

EPs

Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.

Singles

Ask Me How I Am (2001-02-27)
Chocolate (2004-04-12)
How to Be Dead (2004-10-25)
Little Hide (1998-02-16)
One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed (1998-05-11)
One Night Is Not Enough
Open Your Eyes (2007-02-12)
Run
Set the Fire to the Third Bar (2006-11-13)
Signal Fire (2007-05-14)
Spitting Games
Starfighter Pilot (1999-06-28)

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