LISTEN: Snow Patrol drop new single 'Don't Give In' and announce Belfast & Derry gigs
It's finally here 🎶🤗⬇️
Last updated 21st Mar 2018
Snow Patrol have just released their first single in nearly seven years.
Gary Lightbody took to Instagram to share the news;
"So excited and proud, this is a great first single (even if I do say so myself!). Thank you for waiting and sticking with us for such a long time. There will not be such a long wait for the next album after this I promise. Peace and love to you all."
They've also announced two Northern Ireland dates as part of a new tour.
Tickets go on sale Friday 30th March at 10am via Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie.
However, fans will have to wait a little while longer before their new album ‘Wildness’ drops on 25th May.
The new album trailer features footage of Lightbody traveling in a spaceship.
Last year Snow Patrol beat Van Morrison to be named the most played Northern Irish act of the 21st century
Frontman Gary Lightbody says the central themes on the band's new album include coming to grips with the chaotic modern world.
“There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all it’s confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness,”
“Something primal, alive and beautiful that speaks to our true connectivity, our passion, our love, our communion with nature and each other. This is the kind of wildness the album is centered around. The loss of it. Trying to reconnect with it. To remember it.”
Gary Lightbody also says that their latest LP is inspired by his dad’s battle with dementia.
See the tracklist for ‘Wildness’ below.
You can preorder Wildness here
FULL TRACKLIST
01 Life on Earth
02 Don’t Give In
03 Heal Me
04 Empress
05 A Dark Switch
06 What If This Is All the Love You Ever Get?
07 A Youth Written in Fire
08 Soon
09 Wild Horses
10 Life and Death