Snow Patrol have announced their return to their home turf, in Bangor next summer for what will be their third time performing at the venue. Being billed as Ward Park 3, the gig is scheduled to take place, on the 25th of May 2019, will feature line-up made entirely of Northern Irish artists. The Northern Irish-born rock band have also announced that they will be returning to Dublin, to perform at the Malahide Castle, on the 7th of June 2019.

The band last played the Ward Park venue back in 2010, which was their biggest ever to have taken place at the Northern Ireland venue, with them playing to an audience of around 45,000 fans. General sale tickets for the Ward Park 3 show go on sale, on Friday the 14th of December 2018, at 9am here.

At a press conference, singer Gary Lightbody, a Bangor native, said: “The first two Ward Parks were two of the best nights of our lives. The second one in particular was probably our favourite gig we’ve ever done.”

On their website, the band announced: “It is with extreme pleasure that we announce that Snow Patrol is coming back to perform at Ward Park for a third time in Bangor, Northern Ireland on 25th May. We are equally happy to announce we will be joined by an all Northern Irish bill of Foy Vance, ASH, SOAK., Jealous Of The Birds, Brand New Friend, JC Stewart, The Wood Burning Savages, Kitt Philippa, and ROE and a very special guest as yet to be confirmed.”

The band’s drummer, Jonny Quinn, who also hails from Bangor, said: The first Ward Park (in 2007) was a culmination of how far we’d come from being so desperate, touring in a van, thinking this is never going to work, to playing to 30,000 people at our own gig.”

The announcement of the Ward Park 3 gig precedes the announcement that the band will be playing an open-air gig in Dublin, at the Malahide Castle, on the 7th of June 2019. General tickets for this show also go on sale, on Friday the 14th of December 2018, at 9am here.

“We are excited to announce that we are returning to Dublin, Ireland to perform at Malahide Castle on 7th June and we will be joined by our friends The Kooks,” says the band.

Over the last 25 years, Snow Patrol have released seven albums and racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades. These include 13 million global album sales, one billion global track streams, five UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy and Mercury Music Prize nominated.

Snow Patrol’s album ‘Wildness’, is their first album in seven years. They last released a full-length record in 2011 with their sixth studio album ‘Fallen Empires’, which charted in the top five in both the UK and US. The band released the ten-track album, on the 25th of May 2018.

To celebrate the release of the album, the band have debuted new music videos for a number of songs, including ‘A Youth Written In Fire’, ‘Life and Death’, ‘Wild Horses’, ‘Soon’, and ‘A Dark Switch’. The band has previously released music videos for ‘Empress’, ‘What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?’, ‘Life On Earth’ and ‘Don’t Give In’.