Snow Patrol launching their Reworked album in Leeds (Scott Smith for Live4ever)
‘Final Straw’ took Snow Patrol to the UK’s Top 3 in the summer of 2003.
Snow Patrol have added demos, previously unreleased tracks and live recordings to their third studio album Final Straw for a 20th anniversary reissue on April 7th.
“I still have days where I don’t believe much of the last 20 years,” the band’s frontman Gary Lightbody has written in the liner notes.
In the back of my mind, I’m still waiting for the tap on the shoulder and someone saying, ‘you’re not supposed to be here’. In a lot of ways, it’s a gift we were given. We’ve never taken any of what happened after the release of this album for granted.
Previewing the extensive bonuses to be found on the 2CD version is the demo of Chocolate:
Final Straw 20th anniversary tracklist:
CD1;
How To Be Dead
Wow
Gleaming Auction
Whatever’s Left
Spitting Games
Chocolate
Run
Grazed Knees
Ways & Means
Tiny Little Fractures
Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
Same
Steal (Spitting Games B-Side)
Stronger Than Before (Demo)
By Heart (Demo)
We Can Run Away Now They’re All Dead And Gone
Tired *Previously commercially unreleased
Post Punk Progression (Run B-Side)
CD2;
Chocolate (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Run (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Gleaming Auction (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Grazed Knees (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Spitting Games (Demo) *Previously unreleased
Wow (Live at Somerset House)
Gleaming Auction (Live at Somerset House)
Spitting Games (Live at Somerset House)
How To Be Dead (Live at Somerset House)
Chocolate (Live at Somerset House)
Same (Live at Somerset House)
Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (Live at Somerset House)
Ways & Means (Live at Somerset House)
Run (Live at Somerset House)
Post Punk Progression (Live at Somerset House)
Tiny Little Fractures (Live at Somerset House)