The one and only Snow Patrol will be playing a sold out First Avenue Mainroom on Wednesday, May 8th as part of their ‘Wildness Tour’.
Over a two-decade career, Snow Patrol has carved out a unique place for themselves. Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears, which Pitchfork hailed as “an impressive piece of work,” their melancholy anthems of heartbreak and separation have mended hearts, and the band has racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1+ billion global track streams, 5 UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy and Mercury Music Prize nominated.
Titled Wildness, Snow Patrol’s seventh album taps into something raw and primitive. “There are many types of wildness,” says Lightbody, “but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age and something more primal, something we were born with but forget so quickly now because of our addiction to ourselves, to social media, to everything faster, everything now. The level of hate and confusion and illogic and anger and spite that have come up like a torrent recently. That’s the ugly kind of wildness. But there is a beautiful side of wildness, our connectivity to each other, our passion, our love. It’s more and more being forgotten and dulled, because the modern noise is dialed up so loud that we can’t hear the other kind. I want to remember.” That’s not the only thing Lightbody wanted to remember. His father, Jack, is suffering from dementia, making the musician realize how important it to hold on to your memories for as long as you can.
We Are Scientists will be opening up the show. It was the kind of bar where nobody nice goes on the kind of street where nobody nice lives, which is probably what made it so cheap, which is definitely what made We Are Scientists take meetings there. Not that Murray & Cain were cheap, but they could do math just fine. If they were sticking a quarter into a video game machine, they’d just as soon the thrills last for more than thirty seconds. Same with buying a lady dinner. Of course it had been a long time since video games or dinner with a lady cost a quarter, and anyway they weren’t looking for video games or ladies, except in the deep-down quiet way that men always are.
Ryan McMullan will be kicking the night off.
As mentioned, tickets are sold out but keep an eye on First Avenue’s social media accounts for special giveaways!
Remaining Tour Dates:
April 23 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
April 24 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
April 26 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
April 27 – Philadelphia, PA – Tower Theater
April 29 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
April 30 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
May 3 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
May 4 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
May 7 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
May 8 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
May 10 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
May 11 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
May 13 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
May 14 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 15 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
May 18 – Las Vegas, NV – The Joint @ Hard Rock
May 20 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
May 21 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
