LIMiTED NUMBER OF TICKETS FOR NEWCASTLE AND LONDON JUST RELEASED!
Posted 11/21/2009 by the_eskimos
Limited Number of tickets for tonight's show at the Newcastle City Hall just released please contact venue for details. A small amount of tickets for Monday's show at the Royal Albert Hall have also been released, again please contact the venues box office for details.
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ALL BRIGHTON THE NIGHT
Posted 11/20/2009 by the_eskimos
Hello everyone,
So we are off and running with the Reworked tour. Brighton was a lot of fun and the gig went great I think. Was nervous on stage for longer than I have been since the first gigs we ever did. Suppose it’s appropriate as we are looking back over the last 15 years. Thank you to all that came to the Brighton Centre on Wednesday night. May have been a little strange for some of you but it was for us too so we were all in the same boat. There are a few things that didn’t work and we’re gonna spend today’s soundcheck correcting that.
I don’t normally watch us on the telly nor do I enjoy listening back over live recordings as I tend to spend the duration squirming in my seat and cursing at myself for bad vocal tuning so it’s best just to avoid it altogether for the most part. I did though watch children in need last night and thought the whole show was great especially Dizzy with Dame Shirley. I also thought Cheryl did a marvellous job of Set The Fire. It’s a tough song to carry off as the original singer of the song was Martha Wainwright, possibly the greatest female singer of her generation. It’s a tricky hill to climb because of that and few singers will get close to the pain, passion and soul of Martha. Cheryl tackled it with honesty and tenderness and, although some of you on this site haven’t been very kind to her about it, you should, at the very least, give her credit for that and the bravery she showed for even agreeing to do it in the first place. She was well out of her comfort zone and not many singers in her position would be daring enough to attempt anything like it.
All that said this forum is a place where you should feel free to voice whatever you think whenever you think it. I’m only giving you an alternative view to think on. Personally I like looking at songs in as many ways as possible and this tour is giving us all free reign to do just that in ways we’ve only begun to touch on. Exciting times for a restless spirit such as myself. Set The Fire itself will go through many more interpretations as the tour goes on. Strange and wonderful I hope as ‘strange and wonderful’ is my deepest hope for every day of life for all those I love and myself who some days I kind of like.
Bristol tonight. It’ll be a slightly different set to Brighton. We’ll try and change it each night if we can, certainly in places where we have more than one show. One thing will remain the same though, the first half will be softer, quieter and will feature older songs so please do get there early if you want to hear some older stuff. We start at eight each night. After about 40 minutes we take a short break to have a wild sex party backstage. About half way through the second set things will start to get louder and do feel free to stand up and shake your tail feathers. I hope you do.
Whatever happens I hope you all have fun. Am already really enjoying this tour and looking at the songs in new ways has made me fall in love with some of them all over again. Even Starfighter Pilot. There, I said it!
Hope we see you on the road. Lots of love to you all.g.x
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REWORKED TOUR – NEW MERCH – WIN TICKETS
Posted 11/20/2009 by the_eskimos
Following a stunning opening night of the tour in Brighton on Wednesday, where the Patrol performed a career spanning set including…. well actually, we’ll not spoil it for you.
The band head to Bristol tonight for a show at the Colsten Hall, before playing the Newcastle City Hall tomorrow night.
Please remember, the band will be playing two sets on this tour. Performance begins at 8pm prompt every night.
We’ve just added new merchandise to the
SP merch shop and you will of course be able to buy from the stalls at each venue. To check out the new range of merchandise, including t-shirts, hats and scarves click
here.
Finally thanks to all who entered the competition to see Snow Patrol at the Royal Albert Hall, well done to Sabena and Andrew who won tickets for Mondays and Tuesdays performances respectively. We’ve just added a second competition to see the Patrol in Manchester next Friday (27th November), so head to
mySP for full details.
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GREAT BRITISH SONG BOOK
Posted 11/18/2009 by the_eskimos
Gary will be talking about his influences and inspiration behind the writing of some of Snow Patrol's best loved songs.
In the new series of
Sky Arts 'The Great British Songbook' the SP front man will perform tracks including 'Chasing Cars' and 'Run' unplugged during an hour long episode set to premier on Sky Arts on Thursday 19th November at 8pm.
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REWORKED TOUR KICKS OFF!!
Posted 11/18/2009 by the_eskimos
The highly anticipated Reworked Tour finally hits the road this evening at the Brighton Centre.
The tour will see the band play complete reworkings of songs the Patrol have been playing live for the last few years, as well dusting off some much loved old tracks and a few special delights.
Each evening will consist of two halves and an interval. With the 11 extra musicians on stage for various numbers. There are no support bands on this tour, due to the nature of the performance(s). Please be seated and ready for the 8pm prompt start each evening.
A limited number of seats have just been released (non-restricted views) for the show tonight in Brighton, but these are very limited so best be fast. You can buy them from
ticketmaster.co.uk NOW!
For details of how to win tickets for the Patrol’s show at the Royal Albert Hall log into
mySP.
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CHILDREN IN NEED ROCKS THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Posted 11/17/2009 by the_eskimos
Don’t forget to tune into
BBC One on Thursday 19th November 2009 at 8pm for
BBC Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall – Watch Snow Patrol perform with a special guest and don't forget to give generously to help change children's lives by texting DONATE to 70077. Text messages will cost £5 plus your standard network message charge and £5 will go to BBC Children in Need. Please check with the billpayer before texting. For full terms and conditions of text to donate go to
bbc.co.uk/Pudsey/donate.
You can also donate by calling our donation line on 0345 7 33 22 33 (calls charged at geographic rates, calls from mobiles may be higher) or donate online at
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ADDITIONAL TICKETS RELEASED FOR BRIGHTON SHOW!
Posted 11/16/2009 by the_eskimos
Ahead of Snow Patrol’s Reworked tour kicking off in Brighton on Wednesday, we can inform you that a limited amount of production holds for the show have just been released.
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‘UP TO NOW’ SNOWFLAKE iPHONE APP
Posted 11/9/2009 by the_eskimos
The Snowflake app allows you to keep update with all things Patrol related, with the latest news stories, forum, photo galleries and even the chance to create your own snowflake.
You can even upload your own photos to the app and show them off to the world. The band will be doing the very same over the next few months, adding photos taken everywhere from the rehearsal studio to the stage during the forthcoming Reworked Tour that begins on November 18th. The first uploads from the band were taken last Wednesday when they played a very exclusive acoustic show for fans in the band’s local pub in London.
To access the photos, keep up to date, or just make as many snowflakes as you want, download the FREE
app now from the iTunes store
here.
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'UP TO NOW' THE BEST OF SNOW PATROL OUT NOW!
Posted 11/8/2009 by the_eskimos
Up To Now - the best of Snow Patrol - is now available in the shops in the UK & Irelandand to download worldwide (Including North America, where it available from today).
The thirty track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities & tracks by The Reindeer Section, is out on CD & DVD, double CD, download and Limited Edition Boxset (which is available exclusively from
SP.com and not available in the shops).
The beautiful heavyweight boxsets are numbered and contain the double disc album on CD, three heavyweight vinyl's, two DVDs, a lithograph print by Bradley Quinn and an LP-sized booklet.
The two DVD’s feature the Up To Now and Take Back the Cities documentaries, over a dozen live performances and the animated film for ‘The Lightning Strike’ and all the bands videos. With the extra CD featuring the bands semi-acoustic performance at 2007’s MENCAP Little Voices at the Union Chapel, London.
To order the box sets simply click
here.
MySpace US is currently featuring 3 new songs from Snow Patrol’s “Up To Now” (available in the US tomorrow!). Click
HERE to listen to Snow Patrol’s new single “Just Say Yes” and previously unreleased tracks “Crazy In Love” and “Dark Roman Wine”.
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'JUST SAY YES' OUT NOW!
Posted 11/1/2009 by the_eskimos
The new Snow Patrol single ‘Just Say Yes’ is now available in the shops and to
download.
‘Just Say Yes’ is the lead single to be taken from ‘Up To Now’ and is one of three new tracks that feature on the double album.
Backed by the ‘
Thin White Duke Mix’ (Les Rythmes Digitale) of ‘Just Say Yes’, the CD single is available to order from
amazon.co.uk and
hmv.com NOW and to download by clicking
here.
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