Snow Patrol

[rmbod]

Their new single is excellent. Does anybody know anything about them, like where their from, how long they've been around etc??

[Dino310]

Quiet may be the new loud, but these Scots-Irish whisperers have yet to benefit from the fashion for understatement that has worked wonders for Elbow and Turin Brakes.
Three albums in, they have rethought their waif act, possibly prompted by leader Gary Lightbody's recent stint with the now-defunct Reindeer Section. If anything could turn a man into a rabid metalhead, it was those Glasgow tweemongers.
Now, although Lightbody isn't quite ready to don shorts and grow a goatee, he is no longer the wispiest boy on the block. The pointedly titled Final Straw has hair on its chest, with Lightbody sounding as robust as he's ever likely to and new guitarist Nathan Connolly constructing a veritable wall of sound.
Fans of the former, fey Snow Patrol will have to make do with How to Be Dead and Ways and Means, apologetic reminders of the way things used to be.
Across the rest of the album, dance producer Jacknife Lee has introduced spiky guitar, beats and samples, while preserving the band's melodic inclinations.
Fizzing along spitefully, Final Straw is a fine start to Snow Patrol's second chapter.
(by Guardian)

[rmbod]

Thanks for the info. These are my tip for success in 2004. Does anyone have any other predictions for this year?

[rmbod]

Looks like top 5 for Snow Patrol on Sunday! Excellent!

[GeeNY]

rmbod - take a look at NME! :) There's everything about indie+alt allways first.
It looks for me The Hives returning will succeed with official number one (looking at the situation in chart past weeks), I hope Electric Six will release their version of Radio GaGa, it has to be the huge anthem everywhere. Oasis coming back with, of course, another number one "You Wanna Feel My Shame" or "They Aint Got Nothing On You, They Aint Got Nothing On Me" (descission hasn't been made yet). The Darkness has to take the number one home with next single and Strokes will do top5 obviously with Reptilia (and wait - there's more hot stuff from Room On Fire to follow). What else? Lot of new bands, like Keane going to be huge, Hope Of The States has to be next Radiohead, but im waiting for first lp's of the crimea & the delays, they're singles are really really great! :)
And, of course, the big comeback of Gomez!
top3, ergh? :)
this is our year!