This Week's Singles Reviewed
NME's Jazz Monroe reviews this week's singles Snow Patrol - 'Called Out In The Dark' Gazza Lightbody and co’s last two albums were so wet of spirit and middle of road they were prancing back to the pavement for fear of being run over....
Snow Patrol
Wake up, wake up”, Gary Lightbody begs on new track ‘Lifeboats’. We can’t help but reiterate the same plea (only with more fervour). It’s 14 years since Snow Patrol banded together, two years since their last album, and now they’re...
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol are back with another slow-burning anthem, but pleasingly this isn’t their typical dewy-eyed simperer, it’s more of a glammy power-rock ballad in the vein of ’80s unit-shifters Starship or Roxette. You won’t admit to liking it,...
Snow Patrol
As ‘Signal Fire’ is taken from the latest Spider-Man flick we couldn’t help but notice the similarities between SP’s frontman Gary Lightbody and Peter Parker. Both live double lives (Parker as superhero in journalist’s body Vs...
Snow Patrol: Eyes Open
Now, before we get all uppity about this not being rebel music (because it absolutely isn’t), you have to remember what Snow Patrol went through to get here. Having won over the nation’s girlfriends and Focus owners with ‘Final Straw’ and...
Snow Patrol: Opera House, Toronto: Thursday,...
On this, the last night of their mini north American run in preparation for their upcoming UK dates, Dundee’s finest are doing their damnedest to dampen fears that the successes of 2003 and 2004 were not the final straw. Not by a long shot. With...
Snow Patrol : Belfast Mandela Hall
They might have been at the centre of Glasgow's indie power bloc for years, but, as everyone in tonight's crowd is proud to remember, Snow Patrol are actually from Belfast. In biblical times people used to slay fatted calves when prodigal sons...
The Sleepy Jackson/Snow Patrol/The...
BRATS SPAT SPLATS SQUAWKIN’ HAWKINS! SCHLOCK ROCK COCKS’ SHOCK SNUB BY MAD MAG SLAGS! So wrote the tabloid tattle twats while pissed up on our NME awards booze, once again gak-blinded to The Point. The Darkness won no gongs because you...
Snow Patrol : One Night Is Not Enough
"Receiving strong support from the Evening Session ", it says here, and if that doesn't put you off, nothing will (haw haw). Sure enough, 'One Night Is Not Enough' hits you like a shot of pure camphor (which you get in mothballs - Laundry Ed) ,...
Snow Patrol : When It's All Over We Still Have...
Scratch the surface of a genre, and invariably there's a stereotype. Boil off the juice of a certain branch of indie then, and you're essentially left with this residue - lovelorn boy bemoans his romantic luck. Not doing much to buck the...
