Boring music sends you to sleep: report
Hoteliers Travelodge have carried out their own survey into the pre-sleep bedroom habits of weary Britishers. Sexy results? No»
Snow Patrol News
Blow Patrol: Snow-man in court on cocaine rap
Snow Patrol keyboardist Tom Simpson will appear in court at the end of the month on charges of being a filthy druggy sicko.»
British music industry offically 'good' again; James Blunt leads us out of the darkness
James Blunt leads the UK out of the darkness. Rejoice!»
Super her-O: Indie monsters unite for Spiderman soundtrack
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers and The Flaming Lips head a cast of contributors who have donated tracks to the official Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.»
The Weekly DiScussion: The Charts, or why we're obsessed with numbers
Every week, the kind folk of DrownedinSound.com (hi, that’s us) offer up a comprehensive overview of the latest pop charts. Hopefully you find it useful. Sometimes, though, I detect that, behind the bile, hate, sarcasm and ennui displayed by a certain M Diver, there’s not a lot of love for the top 40. So why are we still obsessed with the charts...»
T in the Park: homogenous '07 festival convoy heads to Scotland
The organisers of T in the Park have announced details of who will be playing when at this year's festival...»
Oxegen '07: first line-up details announced
The first acts have been confirmed for this year's Oxegen festival in Ireland...»
Chart round-up: Really, who HASN'T heard Eyes Open yet?
Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway...»
Top bands announced for groundbreaking Isle of Wight Festival
Muse, Snow Patrol, Kasabian and Keane have been announced as headline bands for this year’s Isle of Wight Festival...»
Snow Patrol triumph at Meteor Awards
Snow Patrol won four awards last night at Ireland's Meteor Awards...»
Snowboarding PatrLOL! Drummer busts arm...
Jonny Quinn - drummer with popular indie-poppers Snow Patrol (that's them in that picture, there) - has broken his arm while snowboarding in the Alps...»
The Killers and Snow Patrol to headline 2007 V Festival
Snow Patrol - the biggest-selling British band of 2006, official - are to headline the 2007 V Festival which will take place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on the 18th and 19th of August...»
Chart round-up: these new downloading chart rules are doing our heads in...
Hangover passed, has it? Some of us didn’t have the opportunity to develop one, such was our ignore-everything-else excitement over the start of the new musical year. 2007, though, begins almost exactly as 2006 ended, chart wise...»
More ears than Eyes Open: Snow Patrol album tops 2006 sales chart
Snow Patrol's Eyes Open long-player - pictured - is officially the biggest-selling UK album of 2006, so far. Since its release in May, the album has shifted 1.2 million copies on these shores...»
DiS's chart update: boybands rule, again!
Good news, everyone! This week sees Westlife’s ‘The Rose’ romp to the number one spot on the UK singles chart, the position that’s been rightfully theirs since oh we forget when. The Irish four-piece, who have a new album out a week today, are the only new entrants within this week’s top ten...»
Chart round-up: So, when you use a bidet, is that a 'number three'?
If so, it's totally apt considering Beyoncé's position on this week's album chart. But we'll get to that in a second...»
JerseyLive is this weekend!
DiS will be at the event, catching the action and documenting it in the form of a delicious podcast and article. That way, it will be like being there, but without actually leaving your house. Admittedly it will hardly be 'live' - three days later in fact - but y'know, you can just build a moat around your house, knock the VAT off your shopping and pretend you're in Jersey...»
DiS delves into the charts; finds little but C to the A to the C to the K...
Seven days may have passed since last we, DiS, delved into the charts in any detail, but little has changed: Shakira remains top of the singles pile with ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, with Rihanna’s ‘Unfaithful’ at two and Christina Aguilera just below her with ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. We’re still digging that last one; t’other two can naff off...»
The Monday chart round-up: TOTP is dead, so what?
So Top Of The Pops is dead. Anyone watch the last one? I didn’t. Had better things to do. Like eat pasta and catch a train. I thought about recording it, specifically to find out what was atop the pile o’ short-play records we in the business call the ‘singles chart’, but then I remembered: the DiS round-up, this round-up, will set me straight! Not least of all ‘cause I’m the foo’ writing it...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
Boring Touring: the mainstream grinds into action
The balding, the bland and the behemoth have been plotting their final assault on the ears, eyes and throats of the world's youth, it seems. Here's this season's social calendar for the filthy rich...»
T on the Fringe line-up announced
The line-up for the sixtieth Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been announced, and it contains a smattering of wonderful gigs alongside a slew of whatevers...»
Stalled Patrol: band cancel US dates
Popular indie-poppers Snow Patrol have been forced to cancel a series of upcoming Stateside shows, after singer Gary Lightbody lost his voice...»
One Big Weekend warning: bogus tickets circulating
Organisers of the BBC's forthcoming One Big Weekend event, to be held in Dundee this weekend, are warning music fans that there are bogus backstage passes circulating on the internet...»
WIN! Tickets to Snow Patrol and dEUS, this Friday
So Wednesday's all but done and thoughts turn to Friday's merriment - how can they not, with but a few hours' work between then and now? Should you be stuck for something to do come this week's end, DiS can help you: we've a pair of tickets to give away for the Snow Patrol show at London's Kentish Town Forum...»
Latitude Festival news: headliners, et cetera
Sometimes DiS goes out. Yeah, yeah, we have to be back before the sun sets over yonder hillock, but last night we found time enough to pop along to Camden's Proud Gallery to drink free lager and eat finger foods at the launch of a BRAND NEW festival...»
Chiefs to top bill at booze-sponsored Irish festival
Leeds' finest success story of 2005, Kaiser Chiefs, are to headline next year's Heineken Green Energy festival in Dublin...»
Continued Lennon covers: Amnesty offers charity downloads
Radio 1 isn't the only organisation promoting cover versions of John Lennon classics this month: Amnesty International is releasing four contemporary covers as download singles, with profits going to the charity...»
Snow... way! 'Patrol bassist sacked
Snow Patrol have fired bassist and founding member Mark McClelland.»
It's Snow joke - Patrol 'play' for free this Friday
Snow Patrol, live from the Paradiso, this Friday...»
The Mercury? Predictable? Surely not...
The old people in suits have spoken: these ARE the best albums to come out of Britain in recent history...»
Astrid - New Album and Tour!
Scottish Indie Popsters Astrid are back with a new album and support Snow Patrol on their tour in March.»
Gonzo Tours Barflys
Zane Lowe to take his Gonzo show on the road»
Snow Patrol: Spitting Is Go!
Scottish indiemen Snow Patrol plan new single and nationwide tour... With his Reindeer Section duties complete, Gary Lightbody goes back to his day job. Jumping ship from Jeepster to new Polydor subsidiary Black Lion, the Snow Patrol boys have scheduled a single, 'Spitting Games', for a 1st S»
Reindeer Section: Help The Cold Homeless
This band make the polyphonics measly crew shudder and sound even more like a mercury rev covers band.. yeah, scots and irish; celts if you will, they like to drink and they like to woo a women. But then, there's the 27-strong REINDEER SECTION and their beautiful music. Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) and fri»
Snow Patrol Debut New Material at Secret Gig
Snow Patrol performed a secret gig at London's Water Rats venue last Tuesday. The band were listed in the music press as 'Polarbear', their original name. Having parted company with record label Jeepster earlier this year, the gig was a chance to play to potential new labels as well as an opp»
Scottish Supergroup
Members of Mogwai, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian are among the Scots
contributing to an album lead by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody.
The collective know as The Reindeer Section have recorded a 15-song
album under Lightbody's direction. The album, 'Y'All Get Scared Now Ya
Hear!', i»
Bunnymen on Patrol
Sometimes marvellous indie rock veterans Echo and the Bunnymen are back on the road. Woo! And with support from the mighty Snow Patrol. Get in there, kids!
Touring the UK and Eire, they call at:
21st may - Wolverhampton - Wulfrun Hall
22nd may - London - Shepherds Bush Empire
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