Snow Patrol news & community since 2008.

TTB timeline

  • ❄ October 2023: WhatsApp channel launch

    Not too long ago, we launched our WhatsApp channel. This allows fans to receive push notifications about Snow Patrol straight onto their phones. You can find channels under the updates tab. To get notified about new updates, you can turn on notifications for each channel. Channel updates are a one-way broadcast rather than a conversation. Followers can’t reply directly to updates or send messages to channel admins.

  • ❄ September 2023: Website re-launch

    After a break from sharing and updating, TTB came back to life in late 2023. There had not been much activity on the website due to Snow Patrol being on somewhat a hiatus and the pandemic. Now, with a new album announced for 2024, TTB is back to being updated regularly.

  • ❄ May 2019: new domain

    We changed our domain from TheThirdBar.com to TheThirdBar.net.

  • ❄ December 2018: WILDNESS stories

    For Snow Patrol’s 25th anniversary, we put together a book filled with fan letters, stories, photos and artwork. It was handed over to the band before a festival performance in July.

  • ❄ December 2018: TTB’s 10th Birthday

    In December of 2018 we celebrated 10 years online. By then, we had shared over 5000 news posts with our community.

  • ❄ March 2015: Easter egg hunt!

    In March of 2015 we held a giveaway where website visitors had to count easter eggs hidden all over the website. Truth is, we never found them all to remove them. Enjoy the random easter eggs we forgot to delete!

  • ❄ April 2013: new team members

    Katja and Casey joined the TTB team in April after being community members for many years.

  • ❄ June 2012: Gary’s birthday box

    In June of 2012, we sent a massive box to Gary when the band performed at Provinssi Rock in Finnland. We had been collecting gifts for months and with the help of some of the festival staff, were able to have it delivered to him just before the show.

  • ❄ March 2012: Bradley Quinn interview

    Julia shared an interview with Bradley Quinn, Snow Patrols’s live photographer with us.

  • ❄ 2012: Our busiest year and community projects

    We published more than 1300 posts in that year, making it our most busy one! Our online community also engaged in many projects such as calendar making, mixtape swappings, book clubs, Christmas card exchanges and various photography related projects.

    On our forums, we started the ticket trade section where tickets could be resold or swapped.

  • ❄ August 2011: Joining Twitter

    In the summer of 2011 we joined Twitter and linked it with our website to reach our followers even faster.

  • ❄ 2011: Community projects

    In 2011, we worked on various projects. Our community members cut alternative versions of Snow Patrol music videos such as Open Your Eyes and Take Back The City. We also contributed clips to Snow Patrol’s Fallen Empires facebook video contest.

  • ❄ December 2010: Joining Facebook

    In December of 2010 we set up a Facebook page to allow our community members to react to our content and share it across the platform.

  • ❄ November 2010: TTB chat

    We started meeting up for live chats during music video premieres, live streams and album listening parties.

  • ❄ October 2010: new team member

    Sarah joined the TTB team after being a community member from the very start.

  • ❄ May 2010: TTB forums

    TTB forums was set up in May 2010 and quickly became a thriving online community with over 4000 members, running for ten years. It was put together by Sarah and Sam because the official forums did not allow many of the standart forum features like private messaging or subscribing to a topic. The forums are still up but posting was deactivated in 2019.

  • ❄ December 2009: TTB book

    In December of 2009, we handed over the TTB book to Snow Patrol at their Royal Albert Hall reworked shows. It was filled with letters from fans from all over the world.

  • ❄ October 2009: New team member

    Julia joined us in late 2009 and has been with us ever since.

  • ❄ April 2009: new domain

    In April of 2009 we registered our first domain which would serve us for many years; TheThirdBar.com.

  • ❄ December 2008: website launch

    We set up our website and shared our first news posts in December of 2008. A Hundred Million Suns had been released just a few months earlier and Snow Patrol were busy touring Europe in support of their new album.