- 2025-01-30
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MUSIC
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Snow Patrol Premieres New Song “But I'll Keep Trying” on BBC Radio 2
Northern Irish alt-rock band Snow Patrol, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals/rhythm guitar), Nathan Connolly (lead guitar) and Johnny McDaid (keyboards), will release a deluxe version of their eighth studio album “The Forest Is The Path” on March 14, 2025 via Polydor Records.
“The Forest Is The Path” was released last September and reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
The deluxe version comprises 18 songs, including the original 12 songs, 5 new songs and a new mix of “This Is The Sound Of Your Voice”.
From the deluxe version, the band premiered a new song “But I'll Keep Trying” on BBC Radio 2 The Scott Mills Breakfast Show.
The song was recorded with producer Fraser T. Smith at his studio in late 2024.
The track was written by Fraser T. Smith, Gary Lightbody, Johnny McDaid, and Nathan Connolly.- Additionally, the band frontman Gary Lightbody has announced his debut book “The Forest is the Path” will be published on March 13, 2025 via HarperNonFiction.
The book explores some of the main themes from the album: time, home, love, death, life. Also, Gary Lightbody finds on the death of his father, Jack, who passed away in 2019.
Gary Lightbody said of the book, “Every time we finish an album I usually feel like there are hardly any words left in me. Not until we go about making the next album. But when we finished recording 'The Forest Is The Path' in February 2024 I realised that there was more I wanted to say. I didn't know it was going to be a book but I just started writing. The book does, in its own way, tell some of the story of how the album was made but it also talks in more detail about the themes of the record (time, home, love...)” -
He continued, “However, most of the book is about a period in my life before we even started writing the album. It focuses on four days after my father's passing: The day he died, the day after, the funeral, and a year later. For it was a year later that I was able to write again for the first time since he died and the story of the album actually begins. I hope people find the same comfort and relief in the book, that it gave me writing it.”
Photo by Tom Beard - source : BBC Radio 2
