Show Patrol: Inside Snow Patrol’s live comeback
On Snow Patrol's 25th anniversary, IQ follows the band's triumphant return to the road as they traverse Europe and take on the Americas
Feature By | 4 April 2019
Back in October 2012, when Snow Patrol were nearing the end of their hugely successful year-long Fallen Empires tour, their manager Peter Mensch flew out to see them play in Santiago, Chile, and offered some choice advice to the Northern Irish rock band.
“I said to them, ‘Gee, let’s not wait three years to make another record,’” he recalls.
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Snow Patrol evidently took the advice to heart, as they didn’t take three years to make a follow-up to Fallen Empires. They took seven. “That was not part of the plan,” deadpans Mensch. “They are the band that’s taken longer off than any band I’ve ever managed, so I’m learning on the job. There isn’t a playbook: Seven-year Absences for Dummies.”
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