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Members

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Gary Lightbody (born Bangor, Northern Ireland, on June 15, 1976) is the frontman of the Scotland-based rock band Snow Patrol.

After attending Campbell College, he moved to Dundee, Scotland in 1994 to attend Dundee University. It is here that he formed Polar Bear with fellow student Mark McClelland, also from Belfast. Initially Richard Colburn of Belle & Sebastian featured on drums. Lightbody then asked Jonny Quinn to move over from Belfast to take over on drums. Facing legal action from an American band of the same name, the boys changed their name to Snow Patrol, the affectionate nickname a friend had dubbed them.

Over the years they released two albums, Songs for Polarbears, and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up, and toured with bands such as The Levellers, Ash and Travis, before signing to Polydor offshoot Fiction. Their first album on Fiction, Final Straw, saw Lightbody working with producer Garrett "Jacknife" Lee, who went on to produce U2. After the success of Final Straw, the band headed back into the studio to record the next album for Fiction, Eyes Open.

He also formed in the Scottish supergroup The Reindeer Section., made up of 27 musicians from 10 different bands. In 2006 he featured in another musical collective, The Cake Sale, formed to raise funds and awareness for Ireland's Make Trade Fair campaign.

Lightbody now lives in Glasgow and is a friend of the BBC Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray.

Lightbody is known for being very into contributing to Charities, recording charity songs and helping raise awareness of such events.

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson (born on 20 October 1978) is the bass player in the Northern Ireland-based Indie rock band Snow Patrol. He occasionally sings backup vocals.

Wilson formerly played both guitar and keyboards for Glasgow-based band Terra Diablo. In March 2005 he replaced longtime member and Snow Patrol co-founder Mark McClelland on bass. He played his first official show with the band in Dingle, County Kerry on April 1, 2005. As a multi-instrumentalist, he was considered an integral part of the creative process on Snow Patrol's 2006 album, Eyes Open.

An injury to Wilson's left arm and shoulder forced the band to cancel several of their French and Germany shows in late 2006.

Nathan Connolly

Nathan Connolly (born Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 20, 1981) is an Northern Irish musician. He is currently the guitarist and backing vocalist for alternative rock band Snow Patrol.

Tom Simpsonis the keyboard player for the band Snow Patrol. Although he has played with Snow Patrol for many years on tour, he was only made an official member of the band after the album Final Straw.
Tom Simpson attended Monifieth High School in Angus, Scotland.

Johnny Quinn, 34, is the drummer for the award winning rock band from Northern Ireland, Snow Patrol.

Mark McClelland was born in 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He was the co-founder of the band Snow Patrol along with Gary Lightbody and was the bass guitarist and keyboardist. He was ejected from the band after their 2003 album [Final Straw|Final Straw] for creative differences.

The folow up

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The band completed recording Eyes Open in December 2005, with Jacknife Lee returning for production, and this album was released in the UK on May 1, 2006, with the first UK single "You're All I Have" having been released on April 24, 2006. The album was released in North America on May 9. While "Hands Open" was the first American single, "Chasing Cars" pushed its way onto the download and pop charts after it was heard in the second season finale of the television show Grey's Anatomy on May 15, 2006. Due to the song's surprise popularity, it was released as an overlapping single in early June and the video was re-recorded to include clips from the show. Also, it was featured in another television show "One Tree Hill" during its season finale. Another of their songs, "Open Your Eyes", was heard on the season finale of another medical program, ER, on May 18, 2006, the The 4400, and the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy on September 28, 2006.

The band was forced to postpone a majority of the American Eyes Open tour after polyps were discovered on Lightbody's vocal cords, and failed to heal after initial postponement of three dates on the tour. Dates were rescheduled for September. The year would continue to be difficult on the band for the U.S. legs of their tours, as they were also forced to cancel two west coast festival appearances in mid-August due to the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S.-bound flights from the UK. Two band members made it to the U.S. while two were stuck in London. Sequentially, they all made it to the lone U.S. tour stop in Boston days later but failed to recover any of their luggage, forcing them to shop for clothes on Newbury St. that afternoon. Their gear arrived hours before showtime, just in time for sound check.

Earlier on in the year at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt/Kewit Belgium, in which security problems regarding the bands equipment at Heathrow airport meant they lost all their instruments in customs, but managed to bring two of their acoustic guitars with them. This saw two members of the band perform a short acoustic set, with Gary Lightbody saying Next time we'll bring our equipment on the plane, even if it kills us!.

The band also had to cancel appearances in Germany and France after bassist Paul Wilson injured his left arm and shoulder.

Eyes Open on the 26th November 2006 became the UK's best-selling album of the year so far shifting 1.2 million copies.

History

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Early years

They sung at the blues festival in northern NSW which is where they first became famous and also which is where they met biddi 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'.

At this point, Jonny Quinn, also from Northern Ireland, joined as permanent drummer. With him rounding out the lineup, the band released their next EP Little Hide on Jeepster Records while still living in Dundee (its cover was a blurred photo of a football crowd watching Dundee United at Tannadice Park). A follow-up single "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed" was a minor independent chart hit. Both of these early singles were heavily promoted by Jeepster - with videos included as computer files on the CD singles, and Snow Patrol starting to appear on television. Their first MTV interview was in 1998, and they briefly appeared on a Channel Four documentary about Jeepster Records (which concentrated mostly on Belle and Sebastian) that same year. Two albums on Jeepster followed: Songs For Polarbears in 1998 (including a slightly remixed version of their debut single Starfighter Pilot) and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up in 2001 (both recorded while the band lived in Glasgow). Also in 2001, Gary collected a group of Scottish independent musicians from such acts as Mogwai together to perform as a "supergroup", "The Reindeer Section", who have so far released two CD albums. Gary also performed vocals on a single by Cut La Roc.

Breakthrough success

It wasn't until after being dropped by Jeepster that guitarist Nathan Connolly joined, and the band signed to the mainstream Polydor label. They gained mainstream success with their song "Run" (which debuted at #5 in the UK singles chart), as well as the album it was from, the 2003 release, Final Straw which was produced by Jacknife Lee. Iain Archer, a touring guitarist and songwriting collaborator from 2001-2003, won an Ivor Novello award for his contribution to the Final Straw album. The record peaked at #3 in the UK albums chart. Archer's final date with the band was September 27th, 2003 in the St Andrews Students' Association. They followed the success of "Run" up with three more singles from the album, "Chocolate", and a re-release of "Spitting Games", both reaching the top 30, and "How to Be Dead" reaching number 39.

The band's highly successful 2004 album, Final Straw.

The release of Final Straw in the United States in 2004 saw the album notching up well in excess of a quarter of a million sales and becoming the 26th most popular British album of that year. Their single "Run" was the 22nd most played British song on American airwaves, having been played just under 28,000 times on US radio stations in that same year. ^{[citation needed]}

On March 16, 2005, Mark McClelland left the band, with Gary Lightbody stating 'a whole new set of new and unexpected pressures... have unfortunately taken their toll on working relationships within the band, and it was felt the band could not move forward with Mark as a member.' Former Terra Diablo member Paul Wilson replaced him on bass. In April 2005, Snow Patrol declared longtime touring keyboardist Tom Simpson an official member of the band. BOO In the midst of touring on U2's Vertigo Tour in Europe in the summer of 2005 as an opening act, the band played in London at Live 8. After finishing their opening act duties and extensive 2-year tour of Final Straw in late July, the band took a few weeks off and began writing and recording songs for a new album. Snow Patrol's new version of John Lennon's "Isolation" was released on December 10, 2005 as part of Make Some Noise, Amnesty International's campaign about music with a message.

Snow Patrol The Band

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Snow Patrol is an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland signed to Polydor Records. The band was formed in late 1994 in Scotland by vocalist and guitarist Gary Lightbody and bassist and keyboardist Mark McClelland, two students from Northern Ireland who at the time were pursuing an education in Dundee, Scotland.