Snow Patrol - Eyes open - is my album of the year for 2006! I simply love it. Every track is good, very very good. My favourite track is Shut Your Eyes. Check it out. This is their fourth album, their third album, called Final Straw, is sold out everywhere. Can't wait to get hold of it. Clearly a lot of people agree with me. Their first and second albums are not available here, and I simply have to order them. The title of their first album is Songs for Polar Bears. How cool is that (ahem, no pun intended!)

I grabbed this pic off their website. This is them in front of U2's stage when they supported them in Brussels in 2005. Snow Patrol are Irish. What is it with the Irish, why are they such great musicians and poets, artists.........?