Blow Patrol: Snow-man in court on cocaine rap

Argh

until about the time of final straw, always on tour with them though and he used to do decks & keyboards stuff when they had fun songs like PPP & Get Balsamic Vinegar... etc.

anyway it must be true, it was in the metro yesterday.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3675341

Tom has always been a member of Snow Patrol, since at latest the tour for "When It's All Over...", hence pre-dating this photograph.

N.B. potentially embarrassing knowledge.

snow patrol played atp in 2000 too...

Tom Simpson didn't die because of alcohol and amphetamines per say, it was hyperthermia (heatstroke) which the brandy and amphetamines had masked the symptoms of, because he wanted to complete the tour.
i know this isn't a sports site, but here's a guardian article, from today, about Tom Simpson:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/07/13/white_flowers_for_a_man_in_whi.html

I read an NME article in 2005 when the headlined King Tuts at TITP and Gary spoke of all the boozing and drug taking that went on in the band, like falling of scaffolding whilst pretending to be spiderman whilst on some kind of trip leading to them pulling out of some gigs a few years before that

cover 'informer'?

Is snow patrol a drug reference?

Should they now be called just simple 'patrol'to avoid influencing people who read the band name who may then go on to take drugs?

Will nobody think of the children!!

but that was in reply to "oh, how times change".

glad it's not too long a thread, it's very hard to see what these replies are actually in reply to otherwise!

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