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Snow Patrol to play free West Coast shows

Snow Petrol, V Stage, 19.40pm, Weston Park, Staffordshire, August 19, 2007.   Pic: Tom Oxley

Snow Petrol, V Stage, 19.40pm, Weston Park, Staffordshire, August 19, 2007. Pic: Tom Oxley

They also gear up for radio gigs across the US

Snow Patrol have announced that they will play three free shows on the US West Coast in December.

The band are set to play shows in Tempe, Arizona, Las Vegas and San Diego, sponsored by music website Shockhound.

Tickets will become available here on Friday (November 21) at 10:00am PST on a first-come, first served basis.

The free shows are:

Tempe, AZ Clubhouse (December 9)
Las Vegas, NV Wasted Space at the Hard Rock (10)
San Diego, CA House Of Blues (13)


Snow Patrol are also set to play a handful of radio station-sponsored holiday gigs next month. The band are supporting their recent album 'A Hundred Million Suns'.

The dates are:

New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (December 1)
Baton Rouge, LA River Center (4)
Grand Prairie, TX Nokia Live (5)
Denver, CO, United States Gothic Theatre (7)


--By our Los Angeles staff.
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IndieWriter 

Nov 20, 2008

for those of you who got your hopes up when you read about coldplay breaking up, don't get too excited, snow patrol are clearly Coldplaying their way around the world. "Coldplay II - Coldplay With Avengance"

drgonzo2012 

Nov 20, 2008

This music by numbers band are so dull they make Coldplay sound like System of a Down.

BohemianConspiracy 

Nov 20, 2008

drgonzo ... i dont understand u.... because between coldplay and snow patrol...the most heavy and 'indie' band is clearly snow patrol... and IndieWriter...don't tell me that u believe in what Chris Martin said the other day... i ve already heard this lie so so many times...(but dont get me wrong...i want it to be true)

gazhat 

Nov 20, 2008

.....how on earth have these become so successful ?????...boring as shite songs, plodding unexcitable dogshit, highly overated....

StockholmSyndrome182 

Nov 20, 2008

Their dodgy mid-atlantic accent should go down well.

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