Dream Jobs

Want to Know More About Wine? These 4 Startups Break It Down

BYT at largeSeptember 18, 2015

“The thing with wine is nobody knows it all. There is always something new to learn.”...

Dream JobsMisc 05 min read

Startups to Start Noticing: Split

Kaylee DuganAugust 24, 2015

Like a fancy adult car pool....

Dream JobsMiscTravel 011 min read

Dream Job Interview: Aliza Licht (DKNY PR Girl)

Svetlana LegeticMay 29, 2015

Land Your Dream Job. Kill It In Your Career. Rock Social Media....

Dream JobsStyle & Shopping 06 min read

What I Learned Pitching My Startup on ‘Shark Tank’

BYT at largeMay 15, 2015

When I got word that the world would finally see my episode of ABC’s hit television show Shark Tank, I felt relief and terror, in that order....

Dream JobsMisc 05 min read

Startups to Start Noticing: On Second Thought

Kaylee DuganMay 6, 2015

We've all sent incredibly dumb text messages....

Dream JobsMisc 08 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Klink

Kaylee DuganApril 15, 2015

More than a liquor store to your door...

Dream JobsMiscRestaurants & Bars 013 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Shopfeed

Kaylee DuganMarch 23, 2015

The Instagram of shopping...

Dream JobsMiscStyle & Shopping 011 min read

The Influence of Engineering Culture On The Startup Economy

BYT at largeFebruary 20, 2015

Thanks to the startup ecosystem, San Francisco is an engineering capital of the world. Or, is it the other way around?...

Dream JobsMisc 04 min read

Why your startup story is important to hiring top talent

BYT at largeOctober 31, 2014

Startups tend to make three common mistakes in communicating with potential new hires...

Dream JobsMisc 04 min read

How startups can learn 5 lessons while rock climbing

BYT at largeOctober 3, 2014

It’s always toughest when you’re almost there...

Dream JobsMisc 04 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Unwritten

sarahguanAugust 14, 2014

Sell your old clothes without leaving your house....

Dream JobsStyle & Shopping 03 min read

Startups to Start Noticing: Chef Jess Delivery Meals

Ashlyn FrassinelliJuly 29, 2014

No more greasy Domino's takeout! Well, okay, maybe sometimes....

Dream JobsEat & Drink 03 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Yopine

Kaylee DuganJune 4, 2014

Finally, an app that will make deciding where to go for dinner easy....

Dream JobsMiscStyle & Shopping 03 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Pikkpack

Kaylee DuganMay 28, 2014

Pre-made shoes are for squares....

Dream JobsMiscStyle & Shopping 04 min read

General Assembly Startup Summer Scholarship Giveaway!

BYT at largeApril 29, 2014

School's IN for summer!...

Cute StuffDream JobsMiscNews 01 min read

Startups To Start Noticing: Global Public Speaking

emilycatinoMarch 11, 2014

Finally an answer to the question: Is it harder to be an opera singer or a public speaker. The answer will not surprise you....

Dream JobsMisc 07 min read

Filter Events

26apr6:30 pmSnow Patrol6:30 pm The Anthem

Event Details

ver 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. They emerged as heartsore musical prophets in the shadow of grunge and shallow pop, striking a chord in the minds, memories and hearts of listeners over six groundbreaking, confessional albums.

Eyes Open, released in 2006, was the biggest-selling album in the UK that year; they went on to headline such festivals as the prestigious T in the Park. But after their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members — guitarist, vocalist Gary Lightbody, guitarists Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to stop for a while.

“We were exhausted at the end of the tour,” says Lightbody. “We went from album to tour, album to tour for 10 years.

We needed to take a break. And it just kind of kept extending. It wasn’t that we planned to take six years off by any means.

“We all started living our own lives and realizing that we actually had lives outside of the band, a band that we still had an awful lot of fondness for and that we did want to come back to, I just perhaps needed more time than I first thought,” explains Lightbody.

“I do think the rest of the band would have been ready to record at any point over the last five years. But they never showed frustration or anger. Never did they say, ‘Hurry up and write the songs, mate.’”

In the interim, Quinn started a family and began putting in more

Sebastian in 2014). Connolly formed and fronted Little Matador, the band he started with a number of other prominent Irish and American musicians, including Dave Magee from Lafaro and Gavin Fox from Idlewild. Wilson signed on as the touring guitarist in Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel’s band Lieutenant, and produced a number of bands, including L.A. newcomers Broken Arrow. McDaid wrote songs and produced such diverse artists as Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and Pink, and executive-produced Kodaline’s third album, due out this year.

Lightbody put the finishing touches on The Ghost of the Mountain, the second album by his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows. He then moved to Los Angeles and began writing songs for movies (including “This Is How You Walk On” for 2017’s Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. Songs that weren’t pulled from his own psyche were less painful to craft, and went a long way into healing what he considered to be writer’s block.

And at his website (www.garylightbody.com) he posted 15 cover versions of favorite songs by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bon Iver, Tom Waits and Glen Campbell.

But something else unexpectedly stimulated his writing even more. Two years ago he quit drinking. “Drinking was the only place I could hide from myself and if I was drunk I wasn’t depressed, just the next day but that could be remedied with more drink.” But he didn’t want that anymore.

“I’d been writing songs for years about love, been down that road so many times before: love, the end of love, the beginning of love. Mostly the end of love, to be honest. And I just knew that this album had to be something different. I hadn’t been in a relationship for some time and had no material to draw on. I had to look both deeper inside myself and out into the wider world around me and both seemed to be in chaos.”

Which is what he did for Snow Patrol’s seventh album. Titled Wildness, it taps into something raw and primitive.