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So earlier in the week I saw Keane at Koko and tonight I had the pleasure of watching even a bigger band in the intimate surroundings of the Bloomsbury theater, a 500 seated venue in London’s Euston area. Snow Patrol who have released their fifth studio album this week “A Hundred Million Sums”, and have just completed a 5 date mini tour which included small 
club shows in Edinburgh, Dublin and London. All of the tickets for the shows were sold to die hard Snow Patrol fans via their web site and fan club.
I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of the band and although I own three of their albums I find the heavy rotation of their music on the radio quite tiresome. That said they put on an excellent show with a set that was perfectly balanced with new songs along with the hits from their last two albums. Gary Peabody connected well with the fans ans seemed genuinely pleased to be playing such a small environment and encouraged a fair amount of audience participation, which they were only to willing to give. The new material sounded slightly mellower than the last album and the set started with a solo acoustic number. I am sure that this album will be just as big as their previous efforts and no doubt will be a big seller over the Christmas season.
Written by John Rahim