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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
“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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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:
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:
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
Thanks to everyone that bought
#reworked
in its first week. We’re so excited that it’s out in the world. It was a labour of love reworded on tour over the last year & we’re so grateful to those that bought it. Loads of love. See you on the Reworked tour! Oxford tonight! gL.x
Thank you Leeds
@fdarena
. Absolutely stellar night. Top top crowd. Really lovely atmosphere. Thanks to our special guests
@Kodaline
&
@Roe_music
. Yous are legends & we love you. We hadn’t played Leeds in 11 years! Shame on us. We’ll make sure we’re back way sooner than that. gL.x
North American tour starts today! Exciting times. Playing in Harrah’s in SoCal tonight. Then joining up with Ed Sheeran’s tour tomorrow in Los Angeles. Looking forward to winding our way through the North American continent and also heading to Mexico City too. gL.x
Our new album, “Reworked” is coming & we’re touring! Album available soon & tickets go on sale 10am 06.09.
But if you pre-order from our official store, or follow the link and sign up by 5pm 03.09 you’ll access our pre-sale which starts 10am 04.09! SP x