Currently at number one in the album charts with their new album Eyes Open, Snow Patrol have just announced their biggest live dates yet.

Renowned for their stunning live performances, in 2005 the band scaled the heights supporting U2 throughout Europe, appearing at Live 8 in both Hyde Park and Scotland whilst somehow sticking to their core values: beautiful, powerful songs underscored by some of the most poignant and telling lyrics in rock.

It's two years now since their unforgettable (and Ivor Novello winning) anthem of love and longing Run' reached number five in the UK charts and propelled the album Final Straw to number three.

Singer and chief songwriter Gary Lightbody says: "There are swaggering bands, bands who are in your face. And then there are bands who get hold of you somewhere else. I think it's a heart thing, an intimacy thing. Like you know them and they know you. I think we are one of those bands"

Snow Patrol play Manchester MEN Arena on Wednesday, November 29. Tickets go on sale 9am today, priced £22.50 each. Available by ringing 0871 2200 260.