Snow Patrol Announce Huge Glasgow Summer Show & Tickets
Thursday, 04 February 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
Irish indie icons Snow Patrol may have their hands full touring album ‘One Million Suns’, but that hasn’t stopped them annoucning plans to take over Glasgow later this year with a one day music summer spectacular.
As last year’s T In The Park festival headliners the band are no strangers to the festival circuit. But this year, that small group who formed at Dundee University years ago, have gone all out and decided to not only headline but organise their own event in Scotland. Tickets are on sale tomorrow!
As the band have been based for most of their meteoric rise in Glasgow, they couldn’t pick a more appropriate venue than Bellahouston Park. It is hoped that the event on June 12th could even have an annual occurance. Keyboard player Tom Simpson told reporters: “We did a similar one-day thing a few years ago in Ward Park over in northern Ireland - it was one stage and four bands. Everyone really enjoyed it so we always wanted to do it again and put on a real big day over in Scotland. Now it’s going ahead at Bellahouston park and we’re very excited.”
Those with knowledge of the area will be aware that Bellahouston Park famously played host to the Pope John Paul’s visit to Scotland in 1982, where crowds of 300,000 people packed in to see the pontiff. Not a lot of people know that.
Gary Lightbody, Snow Patrol frontman, has admitted he isnt expecting quite the same figures as back then. He quipped: “I’m not religious but I doubt we’ll elecit the same devotion from the crowd. Although I bet they didn’t sing Chasing Cars as loud in 1982 as they hopefully will in 2010.”
Joined by Frightened Rabbit, America’s Band Of Horses and another band still to be confirmed, the Snow Patrol lads will play Ward Park the weekend prior to the Scottish gig and Gary explained why they chose Bellahouston in the first place. “We wanted to do it somewhere in or near Glasgow that had the same sense of occasion, “ he said. “Bangor is my home but Glasgow felt and still feels like a second home. We’ve done the festival circuit every year of the last ten so it’s time to take a wee break and do our own thing. We’re hands-on with everything we do and decided on the other bands. And being organisers we had to be a little bit selfish and take the headline slot - we’re doing all the work after all! As long as people want it we’ll keep doing it next year and afterwards.”
With it’s rich music festival tradition Glasgow’s T In The Park originally started its life at Strathclyde Park in 1994 before moving to Balado in Kinross three years later. In addition, the city’s roots music Celtic Connections Festival is now a firmly established favourite on the cultural calendar. Looks as though there could possibly be one more big festival added to the schedule for the next few years.
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