Snow Patrol announce UK and Ireland tour - including a night at Co-op Live
30.05.2024 - 09:13
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol have announced a huge eight-date tour featuring a gig at Manchester’s Co-op Live next year.
The three-piece band, led by Gary Lightbody, have sold more than ten million records worldwide and are known for mega hits Run and Chasing Cars, which was named five years ago as the most-played song on UK Radio.
To coincide with the upcoming release of their eighth album The Forest Is The Path, which also marks their first album in six years, the band have unveiled details for a UK and Ireland arena tour for next year, including a stop at Co-op Live on February 22, 2025. Tickets here.
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The tour will kick off at the O2 Arena in London on February 15, before heading to Birmingham, Cardiff, Hull and Glasgow. The run will then end with two Irish dates in Dublin and Belfast.
Produced by regular Adele and Stormzy collaborator Fraser T Smith, Snow Patrol’s latest album - which will be released on September 13 - has been described as a record of reflection and interrogation.
Lead Gary said: “I haven’t been in a relationship for a very long time, 10 years or more, so love from a distance to me meant the way a relationship sits in your memory from a distance of, say, 10 years. That’s not something I’d previously thought about as a way to write about love.
“So it’s like, when you’re in love, you’re standing in the lobby of the Empire State Building. When you’ve broken up with that person, you’re out in the street. You can still see the building, but you’re not in there anymore. And when it’s 10 years later, now you’re standing in Brooklyn looking at the Manhattan skyline.”
He added: “That’s