‘UP TO NOW’ RELEASED NOVEMBER 6
New single ‘Just Say Yes’ serviced to media Monday September 21
Snow Patrol will release Up To Now, a collection of the band’s best-loved songs, on November 6 on Fiction/Universal.
Snow Patrol are one of the biggest and boldest bands of the past decade. Over fifteen years and five studio albums, the part Scottish, part Irish five piece – singer songwriter Gary Lightbody, bassist Paul Wilson, guitarist Nathan Connolly, Jonny Quinn on drums and keyboardist Tom Simpson – have sketched heart-bruised ballads (Set Down Your Glass) and arm-around-your-best-mate festival anthems (Run); radio hits (Chasing Cars) and moments of painful introspection (You Could Be Happy). All of these have been gathered together for Up To Now – a thirty track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities, album tracks and a handful of new songs as well as compositions by the Reindeer Section – an indie supergroup featuring members of Scotland’s guitar elite – Belle and Sebastian, Idlewild and Teenage Fanclub among many others – and co-ordinated by Lightbody. “It’s a portrait of us as a band, warts and all” says Lightbody. “We’ve climbed a hill and now we’re looking back and taking in the view for a bit. It’s nice to show people that we didn’t just arrive overnight.”
From their formation in Scotland in 1994, the band’s hard-earned rise has seen them become one of the world’s biggest bands, culminating in them selling over ten million copies of their last three albums (2003’s ‘Final Straw’, ‘Eyes Open’ – released in 2006 – and last year’s ‘A Hundred Million Suns’), taking in Grammy, BRIT, BMI, Meteor and Ivor Novello nominations and awards along the way.
Up To Now will be available on a two disc CD featuring thirty tracks, and a three disc digipack with an additional DVD which offers two exclusive documentaries, The Lightning Strike animated film and previously unseen live footage. A limited edition heavyweight box will also be made available on a strictly limited run. Each box will be numbered and wrapped in cloth and the first 100 boxes sold will be signed by all band members. The box is a veritable treasure trove for fans, containing the two disc CD, three heavyweight LPs, two DVDs, a lithograph print by Bradley Quinn and an LP-sized booklet.
The Up To Now tracklisting is:
CD1: Chocolate, Chasing Cars, Crack The Shutters, Set The Fire To The Third Bar, Crazy In Love, Just Say Yes, Batten Down The Hatch, You’re All I Have, Hands Open, Cartwheels, The Planets Bend Between Us (2009 Version), Ask Me How I Am, On-Off, Making Enemies, Run (Live at the Union Chapel)
CD2: Take Back the City, Shut Your Eyes, An Olive Grove Facing The Sea (2009 Version), Run, Give Me Strength, Signal Fire, Spitting Games, Open Your Eyes, Dark Roman Wine, Fifteen Minutes Old, You Are My Joy, Golden Floor, Starfighter Pilot, PPP, Chasing Cars (Live at the Union Chapel)
Snow Patrol
New Single – ‘Just Say Yes’ – Serviced to Media September 21
New Single – ‘Just Say Yes’ – Available October 30
New Album – Up To Now – Available November 6