Fantastic end to @LatitudeFest last night, @snowpatrol were endearing, powerful and fabulous – and then @edsheeran turned up!#Latitude2022 pic.twitter.com/6ycqRK6ETS

— Tony Langham (@TonyLangham) July 25, 2022

Thank you!! This was the perfect ending to a perfect weekend. @edsheeran and @snowpatrol at @LatitudeFest pic.twitter.com/I6OrUd9prX — Paula H (@pwag20) July 25, 2022

The band from Northern Ireland and Scotland, which includes Sheeran’s long-time collaborator, Johnny Mcdaid, played the closing slot on the Suffolk festival’s main stage last night with a fourteen-song setlist.

This time Sheeran returned the favour after Snow Patrol joined him for one of his secret shows at Latitude 2015 to sing the band’s hit “Chasing Cars.” Towards the end of the show, the band introduced Sheeran, and they proceeded to play Sheeran’s smash hit “Bad Habits” to the delight of the crowd. Sheeran then returned for the encore and joined the band on their hit song “Just Say Yes.”

Sheeran is currently on the European leg of his ‘ + – = ÷ x ‘ (pronounced Mathematics) world tour and seemingly took the break in his tour schedule to pop home and take in his local festival. Sheeran grew up in nearby Framlingham, Suffolk and now lives there with his wife and their two daughters. Sheeran recently finished the UK leg of his tour, rounding it off with five nights at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 1^st. Sheeran will resume the tour playing the Stade De France in Paris, France, on July 29^th for a two-night stint.

Snow Patrol are also currently on a European tour which will resume In Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on August 4th, 2022. The band announced on Twitter earlier in the month that they will be playing an acoustic show on August 31^st, 2022, at the Mckee Clock Arena, Bangor. Tickets are available here, with all the proceeds from the show going towards turning the Bangor courthouse into a non-profit music venue.

Tickets for our acoustic show in Bangor are on sale now! We can’t wait. Hopefully see you there! g L.x

Tickets available at https://t.co/TJmAwWPDwX pic.twitter.com/WqQ00AJqjq

— Snow Patrol (@snowpatrol) July 8, 2022

Latitude Festival is one of the more relaxed and family-friendly festivals of the summer, with sit-down restaurants and an on-site wellness retreat adding to the friendly atmosphere.  On Saturday night, the Oxford band Foals closed out the day “in vicious style…their 90-minute set is a celebration of their party-starting potency as the band further cement their place as guitar-driven masters of the rave,” NME said in their review of the festival. The always candid crooner Lewis Capaldi headlined on Friday, announcing to the crowd that the reason for the lack of new material was that he spent most of the lockdown “masturbating away.”

Snow Patrol, Sheeran and Capaldi weren’t the only British musical acts making waves at the festival, with Welsh legends, The Manic Street Preachers taking the stage before Snow Patrol. NME saying that the band’s performance of their song, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” felt “particularly poignant, especially with so many parents singing along surrounded by their young children.”    

Snow Patrol’s latitude 2022 setlist:

1. “Chocolate”
2. “Take Back the City”
3. “Crack the Shutters”
4. “Run”
5. “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” (With Martha Wainwright on videotape)
6. “Open Your Eyes”
7. “Life on Earth”
8. “Make This Go On Forever”
9. “Shut Your Eyes”
10. “You’re All I Have”
11. “Bad Habits ” (Ed Sheeran cover) (with Ed Sheeran)
12. “Chasing Cars”

Encore:

13. “What If This Is All the Love You Ever Get?”
14. “Just Say Yes” (with Ed Sheeran)

Snow Patrol UK Acoustic Show:
31/08/2022 – Mckee Clock Arena – Bangor