Snow Patrol and The Corrs - Plymouth Summer Sessions - 14/06/2025

Two Days of Great Music in Plymouth

The Summer Sessions are a series of 4 day mini festivals held across the UK featuring some of music’s finest talents from across generations. Last year, my first Summer Sessions gig, was in Plymouth and the headline act (on the night that I photographed) was the legendary Tom Jones!

So, when the opportunity to photograph the Summer Sessions in Plymouth again I jumped at the chance. While I was only able to shoot two of the four days, the bonus was that on the Sunday one of my favourite bands were playing, Snow Patrol. This would be my 3rd opportunity to photograph Snow Patrol in less than 12 months. I was not going to complain.

Fortunately for me the weather was pretty good on the Saturday and Sunday. The stories I was hearing about the “biblical” weather on Friday night meant that I didn’t feel left out for missing it.

So here are the photos from the musicians I photographed on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15th of July 2025 at the Plymouth Summer Sessions. I’m looking forward to next year already.

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Snow Patrol at the Plymouth Pavilions - 14/11/2019

Photographing Snow Patrol

Over the years I’ve photographed hundreds of bands and artists. I’ve shot everything from local bands to chart-topping artists at the peak. Naturally some of the bands will be new to me and some them I will be really familiar with. However, it is rare that I get the chance to photograph a band I am a real fan of.

I’ve been a fan of Snow Patrol for around 15 years now. I think it probably all started with their first big hit album Final Straw. It was an album that I played so much that if CDs did indeed wear out I probably would be on my 3rd copy by now! Over the years I’ve bought all their albums and been lucky enough to see them in concert a few times.

I listen to a lot of music but there is something about the lyrics of Snow Patrol songs that seem to really connect with me. I’d often listen to them while I was out running and I would find the miles would fly by as I lost myself in those meaningful lyrics. Those songs became the soundtrack of my life during that period.

After the release of Fallen Empires in 2011, things went very quiet for Snow Patrol. The reasons for this are well documented but I think like most Snow Patrol fans we wondered if they would ever come back. Fortunately the release of Wildness this year saw the band come back at full strength. It is a cracking album and one that I’ve played many, many times. As soon as the tour for the album was announced I bought tickets and so my wife I went to see them in Birmingham. It was great to see the guys back on the stage and on great form.

All that said, it should be obvious to you by now that I like Snow Patrol. Fast forward to November 2019 and I get an email from my friends at MusoMuso asking if I’d like to photograph Snow Patrol at Plymouth Pavilions on their Reworked tour. It took all of few microseconds to say yes!

At the gig it was business as usual for me. Well, for the first three songs anyway. Regardless of my personal attachment to the band I always take my job seriously and aim to do a professional job while capturing images in the three-song window. After I captured the images I got to enjoy m 2nd Snow Patrol gig of the year. This job can definitely have its perks sometimes!

I know this is a slightly different blog post than normal, but getting the chance to photograph a band or artist that you are a real fan of doesn’t happen very often. It was a real privilege taking these photographs and I hope you have enjoyed them as much as me.