Northern Ireland rockers Snow Patrol are not letting their 25th anniversary go by without a proper celebration. In a recent chat with Billboard, the band announced several interesting plans to commemorate the anniversary including new music and celebratory shows.
The group plans to release a series of songs during 2019, most of which will be new versions of their old hits.
“We’re taking new approaches to them, some very different,” frontman Gary Lightbody told Billboard. “It won’t be an album exactly; We’ll just put them out over the course of the year.”
Snow Patrol also plans to do a special show in Bangor, Northern Ireland, which is the home town of Lightbody y and drummer Jonny Quinn. Following this show, described as one “nobody seen before,” the band will also do similar performances in the U.K. and Europe.
Finally, the band didn’t forget to throw in some new material in the mix. According to Lightbody, the band will enter the studio after wrapping up a tour across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, and record a follow-up to 2018’s Wildness.
“I’ve already written a bunch of songs,” Lightbody added. “When you’re on tour everything’s a little scattered, so I’d like to be static for a minute or two before I start writing. We’re going to be on tour to the first of the year, and after that, we’ll really get back to making new stuff.”
