Snow Patrol - Band Members

Band Members

Current members

Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jonny Quinn – drums, percussion
Nathan Connolly – lead guitar, backing vocals
Paul Wilson – bass guitar, backing vocals
Tom Simpson – keyboards, samples
Johnny McDaid – piano, guitar, backing vocals

Former members

Mark McClelland – bass guitar
Michael Morrison – drums

Touring members

Richard Colburn – keyboards, drums, guitars, percussion
Iain Archer – guitar, backing vocals, songwriting collaborator, guitar, backing vocals
Ben Dumville – trumpet
Colm MacAthlaoich – trumpet
Miriam Kaufmann – backing vocals
Lisa Hannigan – backing vocals
Graham Hopkins – drums, percussion
Troy Stewart – guitar

Line-ups

September 1994 – December 1996	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, guitar Mark McClelland – bass guitar, backing vocals Michael Morrison – drums
December 1996 – 1997	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, guitar Mark McClelland – bass guitar, backing vocals
1997–Spring 2002	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, guitar Mark McClelland – bass guitar, backing vocals Jonny Quinn – drums, percussion
Spring 2002 – March 2005	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Nathan Connolly – lead guitar, backing vocals Mark McClelland – bass guitar Jonny Quinn – drums, percussion
March 2005 – Fall 2011	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Nathan Connolly – lead guitar, backing vocals Paul Wilson – bass guitar, backing vocals Jonny Quinn – drums, percussion Tom Simpson – keyboards, samples
Fall 2011 – present	Gary Lightbody – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Nathan Connolly – lead guitar, backing vocals Paul Wilson – bass guitar, backing vocals Jonny Quinn – drums, percussion Tom Simpson – keyboards, samples Johnny McDaid – piano, guitar, backing vocals

Timeline

Famous quotes containing the words band and/or members:

“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)

“[T]here is no breaking out of the intentional vocabulary by explaining its members in other terms.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

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