On the back of their Number 1 album in New Zealand, Snow Patrol is set to hold a debut show in New Zealand at the beginning of February 2007 following their Australian tour.

The show is slated to take place at Trust Stadium in Auckland, on February 22, 2007 and will go on general sale on the 8th December 2006 via www.ticketmaster.co.nz.

Meanwhile, a new show at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago has been added to Snow Patrol's 2007 North American tour.

Tickets for the show, that takes place on April 2nd 2007, go on sale on December 2, 2006 via www.ticketmaster.com.

Tickets have been available all week to registered SnowPatrol.com fans, via an exclusive pre-sale in the Members Area.

Snow Patrol the band will be returning to the US this December to perform at a series of radio events.

Radio concerts are gigs put on by radio stations all over the country with appearances from the stations favorite bands that year.

Snow Patrol are scheduled to appear this month in KNRK, Snow Patrol in Portland - December to Remember @ Crystal Ballroom where fans wanted Snow Patrol in Portland, or, KTCL, Denver - Not So Silent Night @ Fillmore Auditorium, KNDD, Seattle - Deck the Hall Ball @ Key Arena, KBKS, Seattle, and KROQ, LA - Almost Acoustic Christmas @ Gibson Amphitheatre.

Snow Patrol the band is an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland signed to Polydor Records. The band was formed in late 1994 in Scotland by vocalist and guitarist Gary Lightbody and bassist and keyboardist Mark McClelland, two students from Northern Ireland who at the time were pursuing an education in Dundee, Scotland.

Originally formed in late 1994 as "Shrug", Snow Patrol the band started by performing gigs at Dundee University and the surrounding pubs before changing their name to "Polar Bear" (or "Polarbear") in late 1995.

In mid 1997, they released a three-track EP, Starfighter Pilot, on the Electric Honey label. Richard Colburn, from Glaswegian indie band Belle & Sebastian, played drums on this record, and Stuart Murdoch, from the same band, sang on one of the b-sides.

Snow Patrol the band completed recording Eyes Open in December 2005, with Jacknife Lee returning for production, and this album was released in the UK on May 1, 2006, with the first UK single "You're All I Have" having been released on April 24, 2006.

The album was released in North America on May 9. While "Hands Open" was the first American single, Chasing Cars mp3 pushed its way onto the download and pop charts after it was heard in the second season finale of the television show Grey's Anatomy on May 15, 2006.

Due to the Chasing Cars mp3 surprise popularity, it was released as an overlapping single in early June and the video was re-recorded to include clips from the show. Also, Chasing Cars mp3 was featured in another television show "One Tree Hill" during its season finale.

Another of their songs, "Open Your Eyes", was heard on the season finale of another medical program, ER, on May 18, 2006, the The 4400, and the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy on September 28, 2006.

In the early days, Snow Patrol the band used to pretend to be members of the Scottish twee-pop band Belle & Sebastian in order to gain free entry to the Student Union club at the Glasgow School of Art.

Many of their songs, including most from Songs for Polarbears, are songs with titles that do not appear in the lyrics. Eyes Open is the first album of the band's that largely bucks this trend.

Gary Lightbody has a side project called The Reindeer Section, a supergroup comprising members of famous Scottish bands including Astrid, Belle & Sebastian, Idlewild, Teenage Fanclub and Mogwai. They have released two albums to date on the Belfast label Bright Star.

The band was the final ever act to perform on long-running BBC music show Top of the Pops with lyrics for Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol on the show's penultimate edition.