Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol is an alternative rock band from Glasgow ( Scotland) and Belfast ( Northern Ireland). Stylistically, the group is often attributed to the alternative rock. So far, over 8 million albums sold worldwide.
History
Initially named the band Polar Bear. Under this name, she had her first EP Starfighter Pilot ( Electric Honey label) released before they had to change their name for legal reasons.
Your commercial breakthrough was achieved by Snow Patrol in early 2004 with their third album Final Straw. In the British album charts the plate rose to third place. The single release reached # 5 Run the singles charts. It was followed by three more singles: Chocolate and the re-release of Spitting Games managed each positions in the top 30 How to Be Dead reached number 39
2006 saw the album Eyes Open, which made it to the top of the British charts. The first single was You're All I Have ( UK # 7). The second single, Chasing Cars, not reached in September 2006 with the sixth place in the United Kingdom, although the top of the charts, but there was a total of 142 weeks on the UK Top 100, making it stand in early January 2011, the single with the highest residence time in the UK charts. Snow Patrol managed with this song the breakthrough in the U.S.: For the first time achieved a listing on the Billboard Hot 100, and the same in the top 10 (No. 5).
In Germany, the breakthrough was slow in coming. Only through massive advertising succeeded in early November of entry into the charts. The single debuted at # 12 Chasing Cars new one and managed two weeks later with the number 8 into the top 10, while the album Eyes Open slowly worked up and managed it for the first time in the Top 20 after 36 weeks: No. 19
On 24 October 2008 Snow Patrol released their fifth album, entitled A Hundred Million Suns. The band recorded most of the album in Ireland ( Grouse Lodge Studios ) and in Berlin's Hansa Studios, on. Drummer Jonny Quinn said in an interview in August 2008 compared to the Belfast Telegraph as follows: "It 's still very much melody -based, but it's too different in ways from the other albums. It's hard to know what everyone wants to make of it but we're happy. I'd go as far as to say I think it 's our best album yet " ( German: ". It (the album ) is very melodic, but also different from the other albums, it is difficult to see how it will please the people. but we are happy. I would say it's our best album so far. " ) the Northern Ireland newspaper" The Belfast Telegraph " had not kept after the interview to the agreement, the title to be published until the band their commitment would send for them and published early the wrong title of the album with the write error " One Hundred million Suns '. The angry about singer Gary Lightbody subsequently published a correction personally on the band's website and named the exact and correct title " A Hundred Million Suns '.
In 2009, the band toured as the opening act at the 360 -degree tour of the Irish rock band U2 by the football stadiums in Europe and parts of America and came here from June to September 2009, a total of 18 times.
On 11 November 2011, the studio album Fallen Empires was released and debuted on the German album charts at number three. For Snow Patrol, this was the best to date chart position in Germany.
Miscellaneous
- The follow-up single Run from the album Final Straw is in the first episode of the apocalyptic TV series " Jericho - The stop " to hear, also you can hear the song in an episode of the first season of "One Tree Hill ".
- The song Open Your Eyes from the album Eyes Open is at the end of an episode of the medical series "ER " (21 shots, 12 Season, Episode 22) and "Grey's Anatomy" ( Enough muffins, Season 3, Episode 2) and on the end of an episode of the soap " hand aufs Herz " ( episode 18 ) played.
- For the music video Open Your Eyes (2007) approach uses the short film C'était un rendez -vous ( 1976) by Claude Lelouch back: underlaid with the song a quick drive through Paris shows, where practically on that early summer morning no traffic even prevails.
- The song Chasing Cars from the same album is in the season finale of "Grey's Anatomy" ( Season 2, Episode 27), more than once in an episode of " GSG 9 - Their use is their life " ( Season 1, Episode 7), and in the main menu and credits of the DVD for the German movie "Where's Fred?" to hear. Also listening to in the third season of " One Tree Hill ".
- In "Grey's Anatomy" Chasing Cars (Song Beneath the Song Season 7, Episode 18 ) has been interpreted by several protagonists in the context of a musical episode.
- The song Take Back the City is in the episode " Bride" of "Alarm für Cobra 11" ( Season 14, Episode 2 ) to hear right at the beginning.
- The song " Make This Go On Forever" and "Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking " were also used in the TV show " Grey's Anatomy."
- To support the campaign, Make Some Noise, Amnesty International Snow Patrol has recorded a cover of John Lennon 's classic insulation.
- For the soundtrack to the blockbuster Spider- Man 3, which started in the German and Austrian theaters on May 1, 2007, the group contributed the title song Signal Fire. This is Snow Patrol by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott ( Spider -Man ) and Ana Johnsson ( Spider- Man 2 ), the third artist of a song title from the Spider -Man trilogy.
- The song " Run" was very successful was covered by Leona Lewis.
- 2010 " Set the Fire to the Third Bar " was used Dear John in the official trailer for the film adaptation of the bestseller.
- 2010, the song " Run" was used as the theme song to the film like a miracle.
- The end of 2011, the song was "Called Out in the Dark" as the official song of the ARD Sportschau winter sports.
- Since 2012, the song "Berlin" is used for a TV commercial of the Irish tourism industry on German television.
- In the trailer for the animated film Epic - hidden kingdom, which will probably appear in 2013, parts of the 16- minute song can be heard " The Lightning Strike ".