Snow Patrol, II

I now can proudly present my very own review of the concert of Snow Patrol. At 2.30 PM I left Ried and via regional train, fast train and Intercity Express I arrived in Vienna at 5.30 PM. A friend of mine fetched me up at the terminal and afterwards we went to a nice little restaurant near the Schottentor, where we drank a beer and ate a little bit. At 7.50 PM we finally arrived at the Wien-Arena in the Eastern part of Vienna, near the Gasometer-towers.

After doing the routine stuff (buying a tour-shirt, going to toilet, drinking another beer) we entered the hall, where an Irish soloperformer called Declan O'Rourke was just about to stop playing. Before singing the last song he said, that he would have already sold all of his CD's the day before so there would be no CD's available that day. Well, nevermind. The group performing before the main event called themselves The Cinematics. A very British poprock band from Glasgow, inevitably sounding like their role models from the same town - Franz Ferdinand. But nonetheless the vibes went up and their show was very okay.

At about 9.10 PM the lights went out and the band everyone was waiting for finally entered the stage, intoning a soft and smooth "doo doooo" - and within a few seconds SP fans knew what was coming up first - "Spitting Games", the song where I posted the lyrics in my last article. "Wow" was the bridge passage to my personal highlight of the evening, "Chocolate", one of my favourite songs of all time - the crowd seemed to like it in a same way, you could clearly hear many (flashy) voices singing along with Gary (the leadsinger). Recapitulating - the first three songs of the evening springed from their 2004 hitalbum "Final Straw".

Afterwards a bunch of new songs were performed, starting with a very impressive "It's Beginning To Get To Me", where not only the couple standing right next to me was heavily kissing during the climax of the song. "Headlights On Dark Roads" was dedicated to the "beautiful city of Vienna" where the band performed the very first time last Sunday. The next song, "Make This Go On Forever" was again dedicated to somebody, this time to Declan O'Rourke and The Cinematics for touring with them. "Gazed Knees" was inducing the maybe best known song these times, "Chasing Cars", where the crowd was REALLY going wild for the first time. The last lines of the song, ".. if I just lay here (2x), would you lie with me, and just forget the world?" were exclusively sung by the crowd, clearly to the delight of the band at a quite high volume.

Photo (I do not have or claim the rights for it) taken from a nice review on FM4 that can be found here.

After having featured "Shut Your Eyes", the ever-popular "How To Be Dead", "Somewhere A Clock is Ticking", "Gleaming Auction" and finally "Ways & Means" (all from the Final Straw album) made the way to the last two songs before the encore. At first their maybe greatest hit ever, "Run", was intoned - starting slowly just to end up exploding massively at the climax. Again, the last lines "... light up, light up, as if you had a choice, even if you cannot hear my voice, I'll be right beside you dear" were sung exclusively by the crowd, and again with success. "You're All That I Have", the first hitsingle of the current album rounded the basic part of an amazing concert. For the encore, "Open Your Eyes" and "Tiny Little Fractures" had been chosen and I was surprised, that it was NOT halfhearted as mentioned in the other article. They sumed up a 99%-perfect concert that managed to come clearly amongst my top3- concerts of all time.