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Dundee, United Kingdom (1994 – present)

Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band which formed in Dundee, Scotland in 1994 and currently based in Bangor, Northern Ireland, where most of the band members are from. They consist of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, vocals), Paul Wilson (bass), Tom Simpson (keyboards) and Johnny Quinn (drums). Lightbody and Quinn are the only original members who remain in the band.

The band became wildly successful on both sides of the Atlantic on the back of their fourth record, 2006’s Eyes Open and the ballad “PlayChasing Cars” - a song that has spent a near-record breaking 90 weeks on the UK Top 75. Some of their other well known songs are PlayRun, PlaySpitting Games, PlayYou’re All I Have, PlayHands Open and PlayTake Back The City.

The main thing to get about Snow Patrol is that, 14 years after they started out as a student band at Dundee University, they’re still flying, gloriously and unpredictably, by the seat of their pants. “The great and terrifying thing about our band,” declares their leader and main songwriter Gary Lightbody, “Is that everything has always happened as it’s going along. There’s been very little masterplan. We allow things to happen as much by accident as by deliberate intention.” One notable early accident was their name.
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PATROL TO PLAY AMSTERDAM SHOW! | News

6 Feb 2010 | from www.snowpatrol.com

Snow Patrol return to Holland this summer to play a one-off show at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. The band will play the venue in Amsterdam on 31st May 2010 to dutch fans who last saw them storm the Pukkelpop Festival in 2009. …

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