Snow Patrol ready to light up the Hoe

INDIE rock heroes Snow Patrol are promising fans a “special moment” when they play on the Hoe as part of Plymouth Summer Sessions this weekend.

- By WILLIAM TELFORD

The Northern Irish band will close the four-day festival and are promising to bring out all the hits, but with a few surprises.

Snow Patrol formed in Dundee in 1994 but hit the big time in the early 2000s with a string of mega hit singles and albums - Eyes Open, for example, being the UK's best-selling LP of 2006. They will delight fans when they headline on Sunday, with support from The Lathams, Somebody's Child and Grace Lightman.

Multi-instrumentalist Johnny McDaid - who forms the core of the band alongside Nathan Connolly and Gary Lightbody - told The Herald the group has heard great things about the beauty and splendour of the Hoe and can’t wait for the atmosphere of the setting, and the crowd, to shape the band’s set.

“We have heard it's spectacular there, that the views are incredible,” he said. “We are so looking forward to all the shows this summer but it is exciting to be going to a new place.

“We don’t get to see very much of the places we play in, but if the view is as good as we have been told, we'll have a moment on stage. But we experience the people as well as the setting.

“So we are super-excited to come (to Plymouth) and really can’t wait. These shows are all individually important to us, we think about each one individually, and, hopefully, we will bring a special moment between us and the crowd.”