SNOW PATROL ANNOUNCES FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR SINCE 2019
NEW ALBUM THE FOREST IS THE PATH OUT NOW VIA POLYDOR
Snow Patrol announce their first North American tour since 2019. The first date is on March 21, 2025 in Vancouver, after which the band will work down to the Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 25, and venture eastward through April. Fans can register for artist presale access by signing up for the bandβs mailing list on their website. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 27 at 10am local time.
See below for the full list of dates or visit the bandβs officialΒ websiteΒ for more details.
βWeβre so excited to get back to tour in North America again! For the first ten years of our career, we didnβt get to play in the US or Canada and even though, now, we have been touring there for twenty years we still feel like weβre making up for lost time. We grew up listening to so much music from the US and Canada so we feel like itβs in our blood. We canβt wait to come back again next year and discover more of the continent and have new adventures with a brand-new album.β ~Gary Lightbody
On September 13th, the band released their stunning new album The Forest is the Path Β featuring the new single βEverythingβs Here And Nothingβs Lost.β The album landed at #1 on the U.K. Official Charts. They previously held the #1 spot with Eyes Open (2006).
The Forest is the PathΒ is theΒ Northern Irish bandβs eighth studio album and marks their eagerly awaited return following 2018βsΒ Wildness. It is produced byΒ Fraser T SmithΒ (Adele/Dave/Stormzy) and the band. Now comprising the trio of Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, Snow Patrol offered the first tastes of their extraordinary new album with singlesΒ βThe Beginning,β βThis Is The Sound Of Your VoiceβΒ andΒ βAll.β
The Forest is the Path was written by Nathan Connolly, Gary Lightbody and Johnny McDaid and features contributions from Fraser T Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy Kerr and Troy Van Leeuwen (QOTSA). Artwork for the album and single are paintings by the bandβs Β Lightbody.
The Forest is the Path is an album of contrasts. At times epically joyous, life-affirming and giant – in fact Lightbody calls the album βthe biggest sounding record we have ever madeβ – and the first four tracks are some of the mightiest choruses they have released in their now thirty-year career. But it also holds space for moments that are pin-drop quiet and earth-shatteringly devastating.
Lyrically, itβs by far the most laid-bare and most unsparing of the bandβs albums Phrases leap out and ambush you, constantly. βIβm only lost if you donβt look for me.β βIβm not going to lie to you anymore, after these lies. Then no more.β βI want to be in love without being loved in return.β βIβve told myself a million times who you werenβt, so I can finally forget who you were.β βLove is just pain in reverse.βΒ Itβs not a record for the faint-hearted, to be sure – but it may just be a salve for the heart that hurts
The recording sessions with Fraser T Smith were intense and cathartic. All three members describe them as utterly transformative, not least Gary, for whom they were like looking in the mirror and refusing to turn away. Listening to The Forest is the Path, you feel that his whole journey as a songwriter was fated to arrive at this point. No filter, total honesty and humility, a deep and untiring excavation of the past. Hearing his lyrics and his singing – the best and most beautiful of his career β you feel as if youβre staring into his soul.
Snow PatrolΒ kicked off their return in the summer with a stunning performance at Rock Werchter in Belgium before playing to 30,000 fans at a sold-out Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick. After headlining a run of festivals, the band will play two intimate shows at KOKO in London and Ulster Hall in Belfast in the week of album release. Ahead of the US dates the band will do an arena tour throughout the UK and Ireland Arena in February 2025.
Tour Dates
MARCH
21 β Vancouver, BC β Queen Elizabeth Theatre
22 β Seattle, WA β Paramount Theatre
24 β Oakland, CA β Fox Theater
25 β Los Angeles, CA β The Wiltern
28 β Salt Lake City, UT β Union
29 β Denver, CO β Paramount Theatre
31 β St. Paul, MN β Palace Theatre
APRIL
1 β Chicago, IL β Salt Shed
3 β Toronto, ON β History
4 β Montreal, QC β Olympia de Montreal
5 β Boston, MA β MGM Music Hall
8 β Brooklyn, NY β Brooklyn Paramount
11 β Washington, DC β The Anthem
12 β Philadelphia, PA β The Met