Jeepster dropped the band from its roster that same year, however, prompting Lightbody to blow off steam by forming the Reindeer Section, a Scottish supergroup featuring members of Mogwai and Belle and Sebastian. Their second full-length album, When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up, was released in April 2001.
One year later, Snow Patrol signed with Jeepster Records, a small label based in London, and released the debut effort Songs for Polar Bears.Īs Snow Patrol's audience modestly expanded, the trio relocated to Glasgow upon graduation. The duo eventually adopted the Snow Patrol moniker and enlisted Jonny Quinn to play drums in 1997. While studying at the University of Dundee in 1994, they began composing music under several different band names, including Shrug and Polar Bear. After an extended six-year hiatus, during which time frontman Gary Lightbody worked as a songwriter for pop artists, the band returned with Wildness in 2018.Īlthough originally from Northern Ireland, co-founders Gary Lightbody and Mark McClelland relocated to Scotland during their teenage years to attend college.
Top Ten platinum efforts, A Hundred Million Suns (2008) and Fallen Empires (2011). They followed up with the multi-platinum success of 2006's Eyes Open, which featured the international hit single "Chasing Cars," and continued with a pair of U.K. Scottish-Irish alt-rock outfit Snow Patrol broke into the mainstream with their 2003 major-label debut Final Straw, a collection of earnest tunes aligned with the sounds of contemporaries like Coldplay, Keane, and Travis.
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