Shakenstir » Forest Live 2025

“Seamus Heaney, my favourite poet of all time, said at 71 that he was only discovering what some of his poetry means, and this is coming from a Nobel Prize-winning poet. It’s a great testament to inspiration,” says Lightbody. “Sometimes it takes you five years to write the thing. Like now. And you know for sure when you finish an album like that, where you’ve poured over every detail and put every atom of yourself into it, everything makes sense and I bet you I’m never not proud of this record.” - Gary Lightbody

I first witnessed a Snow Patrol performance back in the late 90s at the Dublin Witnness Festival. Back then the band was well loved in Ireland but yet to make its mark in the UK. The band climbed slowly in the popularity stakes until the release of ‘Run’ in 2004 which hauled them up the ladder by many rungs. It was, and still is, a classic pop rock song containing all the vital elements - melody, choruses, words and passionate performance. The band’s song-writing has improved dramatically and in my view was better than the icon of the day, Coldplay. Many of the band’s songs have charted around the world from several albums but it was in 2006 with ‘Chasing Cars’ that the band’s popularity and recognition was cemented into UK pop history. I saw them perform again in 2007 at the V Festival and I witnessed a band full of skill, enthusiasm and confidence - they played a blinder in front of the biggest crowd at the festival.

I saw them again in 2019, thirteen years later and in the event of a new album release called REWORKED which as the name implies welcomes in new updated versions of some of the band’s most popular songs plus a couple of new ones. As you’ve probably gathered by now, I like this band, a lot! So to see them again in front of a massive crowd outdoors with the prospect of hearing a setlist of hits and newer material is mouth-watering. I was not disappointed. And neither was the crowd who sang along with ‘Run’ and others like their lived depended on it.

Gary Lightbody is one of the UK’s most charismatic frontmen with a library of looks from sad to madly happy.

Snow Patrol Setlist

Take Back the City
Chocolate
Called Out in the Dark
Run
The Beginning
Crack the Shutters
All
The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)
Open Your Eyes
Make This Go On Forever
Shut Your Eyes
Heal Me
Chasing Cars
You’re All I Have
What If This Is All the Love You Ever Get?
Just Say Yes

https://snowpatrol.com/splashpage-2024/
https://www.youtube.com/user/SnowPatrol
https://youtu.be/e4b7leso0vI

The Forest Live Programme 2025

12/06/2025 CARDIFF CASTLE CARDIFF
13/06/2025 DELAMERE FOREST CHESHIRE SOLD OUT
15/06/2025 PLYMOUTH HOE DEVON
17/06/2025 WESTONBIRT ABORETUM GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOLD OUT
19/06/2025 VIRGIN MEDIA PARK CORK
21/06/2025 BELSONIC BELFAST
26/06/2025 CANNOCK CHASE STAFFORDSHIRE
27/06/2025 OPEN AIR THEATRE SCARBOROUGH
11/07/2025 BOSPOP FESTIVAL WEERT
13/07/2025 TRNSMT FESTIVAL GLASGOW
18/07/2025 COLOURS OF OSTRAVA FESTIVAL OSTRAVA
27/07/2025 LATITUDE FESTIVAL SUFFOLK
02/08/2025 SUIKERROCK FESTIVAL TIENEN, BE
08/08/2025 SUMMER WELL FESTIVAL BUFTEA

https://www.forestlive.com/

Featured Artists in 2025 include: Sting, Nile Rogers & CHIC, Beverley Knight, Rag’N'Bone Man, The Script, Paul Heaton & Rianne Downey, James, Elbow, Busted, Blossoms, Tom Walker, Gary Barlow and McFly.

Delamere Forest: https://www.forestlive.com/delamereforest

A sign language expert accompanied all three acts