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TyronneSnow Patrol Live at Enmore
July 25th 2006 04:49
Fresh from the annual Australian music festival, the extremely muddy Splendour in the Grass, Scottish/Irish pop-rock outfit Snow Patrol graced the old and refined stage of Enmore Theatre. While I have to admit that I wasn't as excited about this concert as I was about Coldplay a month previously, I still like Snow Patrol to some degree and so I was definitely glad to see them in concert.
Starky left the stage after a 30 to 45 minute set, and soon the anticipation grew for Snow Patrol. Their set began with dimmed lights, and a single voice humming the beginning to Spitting Games, obviously controlled from the mixing desk, as the band entered on stage and blasted into the song as fast and hard as possible. Apart from the fact that the theatre was awash with 30-something women, I was determined to get the most out of their music. Their set began with three or four songs from "Final Straw" and the first thing that hit me about the band was that they were so damned casual. Instead of the standard water for refreshment between songs, the band's poison-of-choice was beer, and when not required in the more acoustic songs, bass player Paul Wilson, had a smoko in the complete literal sense.
Of course, it's unfair to compare last night as a concert to something like Coldplay, but nevertheless, for what it's worth, Snow Patrol was entertaining. Lead singer Gary Lightbody had the obligatory humour that comes with being a good live band and, even with the admittance that his voice wasn't as good as normal, he sung well. I was a little putoff by audience members attempting to mosh even to the slower songs, as if we were at a Metallica concert, but each to his own. While personal tastes lean me in favour of Snow Patrol's newer album, "Eyes Open," it is a time-proven thing that "Final Straw" is much more of a mainstream effort and as such, is more popular - I am yet to hear a song from the newer album within a film or TV show, whereas on the other hand songs like Run and Spitting Games have been thrashed to death in movies and TV shows everywhere. Snow Patrol obviously know this, and so the set leaned more towards the older songs, but nevertheless they put in as many new songs as could fit within the set and my favourite, Make This Go On Forever was performed particularly well.
Though not the best concert of the year, Snow Patrol was nevertheless entertaining and while I am slightly put off by the fact that my music of choice is also that of a late-30s/early-40s middle-class woman in a pantsuit, the band were memorable.
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I even had a friend from France asking me about them this week. Apparently there's big rumblings in Europe about that band. After this show, I can see why.
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