Snow Patrol

[the_mars_volta]

I've been racking my brain for 'indie' headliners and thought of Snow Patrol. Their greatest hits album is out now so surely they'll be touring for it. But are they a bit too 'pop' for Reading/Leeds?

[frankie boy]

I've been racking my brain for 'indie' headliners and thought of Snow Patrol. Their greatest hits album is out now so surely they'll be touring for it. But are they a bit too 'pop' for Reading/Leeds?

[she bangs the drums]

There is nothing to say that the headliner will be indie after all last year we had 3 indie headliners and no metal so there is nothing to say that 3 metal bands like Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Blink 182 are the headliners........

[frankie boy]

There is nothing to say that the headliner will be indie after all last year we had 3 indie headliners and no metal so there is nothing to say that 3 metal bands like Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Blink 182 are the headliners........

[she bangs the drums]

Or SOAD

[rexclark]

No chance of Snow Patrol headlining IMO. They're too MOR Indie for R&L, the closest you've came to that was Travis in 01 and I doubt they'd ever go down thast road again.

[kev1664]

There is nothing to say that the headliner will be indie after all last year we had 3 indie headliners and no metal so there is nothing to say that 3 metal bands like Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Blink 182 are the headliners........

[Kyelo]

Metal?

Do you mean punk pop?

Edited January 14, 2010 by BenchBuddah

[zeppelin]

...I really like Snow Patrol's first album

[Kyelo]

...I really like Snow Patrol's first album

[kev1664]

Punk or alternative or rock will do, mis them up if ya like!

Technically speaking anything popular is 'pop' so I could call Slipknot, Metallica, Iron Maiden and the likes metal pop.

[Sparticus]

i've not heard their first two albums (aka the forgotten albums) but i thought final straw was absolutely fantastic, full of heartfelt emotion. The last two albums sound like they've been trying too hard to recapture that sound and it just doesn't work, anyone who's seen them know what the setlist is like right now (just remembered i saw snow patrol, but half a decade ago and they only played three or four songs)

[thomasowen]

It's not a case of them being a pop band (pop bands play all the time) it's a case of them being to MOR. Their first two albums were good, I really liked final straw and then they made an album with a few good songs and a few terrible songs and then an album with almost entirely terrible songs. They are very bland but live they are meant to be good.

[zeppelin]

Would that be their literal first one or the one everybody thinks is the first one?

[theramm]

God I hope not, they were absolutely awful last year at V. One of the dullest bands of the weekend.

[thetime]

always makes me laugh when people like a band and they get ultra popular and they seem to go of them..snow patrol, kol. you lot trying to sound cool.

[tomdsjames]

always makes me laugh when people like a band and they get ultra popular and they seem to go of them..snow patrol, kol. you lot trying to sound cool.

[rockinthecasbah]

Would that be their literal first one or the one everybody thinks is the first one?

[Obsydyan]

Isn't every mum's favorite Mr Lightbody going to be recording solo material this year? If so couldn't this prevent snow patrol playing lots of festivals?

[she bangs the drums]

Metal?

Do you mean punk pop?

[thetime]

Isn't every mum's favorite Mr Lightbody going to be recording solo material this year? If so couldn't this prevent snow patrol playing lots of festivals?

[VCK]

Final Straw is a pretty good album, and I think they get too much stick from Hard Rock puritans who label anything that involves playing more than just power chords as MOR.

I don't rate them as a live band though. Saw them in Leeds in 2006 and was pretty bored by the halfway point of their set.

[rexclark]

always makes me laugh when people like a band and they get ultra popular and they seem to go of them..snow patrol, kol. you lot trying to sound cool.

[Obsydyan]

so is the strokes singer.

[pink_triangle]

Snow patrols recent offerings are no worse than the dirge green day have released in recent years.