Snow Patrol have announced their new EP, The Fireside Sessions. Written and recorded during lockdown, the EP will be released on August 21 and include five songs that were written with the help of the band’s fans during their “Saturday Songwrite” Instagram livestreams. In a nod to this collaboration, The Fireside Sessions will be released under the banner of Snow Patrol And The Saturday Songwriters. The fist single off the EP, Reaching Out To You, it to be released on July 30.
All proceeds from the project will go the the Trussell Trust Charity, which supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency support to people locked in poverty and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
Speaking about how The Fireside Sessions came about, frontman Gary Lightbody says, “During lockdown I wrote a song each Saturday on Instagram Live. People from all over the world participated and each week there was 4 or 5 thousand people involved over the course of the hour: The Saturday Songwriters. They would suggest chords and lyrics and I would put them all together and add in a few of my own where appropriate but my unwritten rule was that there would be lyrics from a Saturday Songwriter in each line of the song. We did it for 11 weeks and wrote 12 songs together. It was a lot of fun.”
Completing the EP’s tracklisting alongside Reaching Out To You are On The Edge Of All This, The Curve Of Earth, Dance With Me and Light Years. The Fireside Sessions follow’s last year’s Reworked album, which saw the quintet offer up alternate versions of iconic tracks alongside some deep cuts.
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