(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Snow Patrol are the Northern Irish–Scottish band that gave us Chasing Cars.

They formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), and Johnny McDaid (guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals). Lightbody is the band's sole remaining original member.

After briefly using the name Polarbear, releasing the EP Starfighter Pilot (1997) and losing Morrison as a member, the band became Snow Patrol in 1997 and added Jonny Quinn to the lineup as drummer. 

Their first two studio albums, Songs for Polarbears (1998) and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up (2001), released by independent record label Jeepster Records, were commercially unsuccessful. The band signed to Polydor Records in 2002 and Connolly joined as lead guitarist.

Their major-label debut album, Final Straw, was released the following year. Run, the record's biggest hit, saw the band rise to national fame as part of the post-Britpop movement. The album was certified 5× platinum in the UK. 

In 2005, McClelland left the band and was replaced by Paul Wilson. Their next studio album, Eyes Open (2006), and its hit single Chasing Cars (reported in 2019 to be the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio) propelled the band to greater international fame. 

The album topped the UK Albums Chart and was the best-selling British record of the year. Snow Patrol released their fifth studio album, A Hundred Million Suns, in 2008; their sixth, Fallen Empires, in 2011; and their seventh, Wildness, in 2018. Quinn and Wilson left the group in 2023.

During the course of their career, Snow Patrol have won seven Meteor Ireland Music Awards and been nominated for six Brit Awards and one Grammy. Final Straw, Eyes Open, and A Hundred Million Suns have sold ten million copies worldwide, combined.

Back in May this year, Snow Patrol unveiled The Beginning, the first single from their Fraser T. Smith-produced eighth album, The Forest Is the Path, which was released on Friday 13 September. Spooky!

We Could Be Love - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - HAYDEN JAMES - {We Could Be Love}

Album of the Year Nomination - September Update - V2.0

Following my love fest for Charli XCX yesterday,  I neglected my other four nominations for the Album of the Year for 2024.

While Charli XCX is just going wild, PNAU, Beyoncé, Tyla & Billie Eilish are also still slaying. Well with Eilish it was her and Charli XCX who created a monster fuss with that Guess remix video!

Till that video, that remix, I felt BIRDS OF A FEATHER was the song of 2024. Guess truly blew that out of the water. Tyla recently won the best Afrobeats MTV Music Award during the week. Whilst Beyoncé was snubbed by the CMA Awards for her country release, Cowboy Carter.

Finally PNAU have continued to fill dance floors with their excellent, Hyperbolic record. So during your Sunday coffee, here are some recent Album of the Year highlights. Happy Sunday!

Album of the Year Nomination - September Update

Charli XCX continues to bring Brat summer now into the incoming Australia summer. It has already had its Northern Hemisphere summer, now its V2.0. With more remixes and a third version incoming. Brat and it's completely different but also still brat. This is wild! So take a look listen below. It lands the 11th of October. Let's go Brats!

 

Friday Flash(back) - Missy Higgins - The Second Act

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Melissa Morrison Higgins is Missy Higgins. This week's Friday Flash(back) is an Aussie icon! Born 19 August 1983), her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012).

Along with her  number-one singles including Scar, Steer & Where I Stood. 

Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for Scar. In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. 

Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012 (July in the USA). 

Higgins's fourth studio album, Oz, was released in September 2014 and consists of cover versions of Australian composers, as well as a book of related essays.

Alongside her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights and the environment, endeavouring to make her tours carbon neutral. In 2010 she made her acting debut in the feature film Bran Nue Dae and also performed on its soundtrack.

On 23 February 2024, Higgins released You Should Run, the lead single from her forthcoming sixth studio album. The album, titled The Second Act, was released last Friday.

Upon announcement of the album in April 2024, Higgins called the album as "a kind of sequel" to her debut The Sound of White, released twenty years ago to the day.

About the two albums, Higgins said "They're both looking forward nervously and wondering what comes next. They're both asking questions like 'who am I?' and 'who do I want to be?'".

Come back tomorrow to stream the new record, while below discover some old, new Missy magic below. This is a big Friday Flash(back) this week. Another big one next week as we get ready to say hello daylight savings and summer 2024/2025!

Ten Days - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - FRED AGAIN.. - {Ten Days}

Friday Flash(back) - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds even got their own (well Nick Cave did) Australian Story episode. You can view the entire episode below. After listening/watching some class music videos of course.

The Australian band formed in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. 

The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey (all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), touring keyboardist/percussionist Larry Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit (United States), and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States).

Nick Cave & the band have been described as one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward. 

Since the 80's, they have released eighteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.

The band was founded following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Melbourne.

Throughout the 1980s, beginning with their debut LP From Her to Eternity (1984), the band drew largely on post-punk, blues and gothic rock, and formed an evolving, multinational lineup, bringing in musicians such as Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson and Kid Congo Powers. 

The band later softened their sound and incorporated other influences on albums such as The Good Son (1990) and The Boatman's Call (1997). Following Harvey's departure in 2009, the band broadened their sound further to include electronic and ambient styles, which feature prominently on the trilogy of albums Push the Sky Away (2013), Skeleton Tree (2016) and Ghosteen (2019).

Last Friday, Wild God their 18th studio album dropped. The record marks their first studio album in five years, following Ghosteen, back in 2019.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - TEENAGE DADS - {Majordomo}