ENTERTAINMENT
From Issue #21
Snow Patrol
By Surya Bhattacharya
Although the boys of Snow Patrol have been around for almost ten years now, it’s their
third album, Final Straw, that’s creating quite a buzz. So where have they been in the
meantime? Battling manufactured pop, “Five years ago, things were really bad and I
remember playing at that time and trying to sell our records. But you see what’s around
you and everyone was at dance clubs,” says drummer Jonny Quinn. “And you even get
students from university that came to us and said, I like Westlife…C’mon, you’re 21, what’s
wrong with you!’”
That wasn’t all the band was battling. Initially called Polar Bear, a title also used by
ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, the members had to rethink their band name in the
wake of threat of a lawsuit. They were with a small music label and couldn’t afford to fight
it, and had to come up with something quick. And this is how they decided on their new
name, “For the longest time, one of our best friends couldn’t remember our band name, so
he came around and called us Snow Patrol, explains Jonny, “So we decided to replace Polar
Bear with Snow Patrol, but our buddy has just gotten used to calling us Polar Bear and we
had to break it to him that he should go back to calling us Snow Patrol instead.”
Snow Patrol proudly supports controlarms.org, a campaign for stricter gun control run
jointly by Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA.
Snow Patrol proudly supports controlarms.org, a campaign for stricter gun control run jointly by Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA.
Snow Patrol photo courtesy of Universal Music
