On April 7^th Snow Patrol release the 20^th Anniversary Edition of their classic record Final Straw. The 2CD edition of the album includes 23 additional tracks inclusive of never before heard demos, b-sides and the previously unreleased track Tired. Included too are extensive new liner notes from Gary Lightbody alongside writings on Final Straw from Jo Whiley and Fiction Records MD Jim Chancellor.

Final Straw was Snow Patrol’s third album and their major label debut. Written and recorded during a make-or-break period for the quartet, it set them on the path to becoming one of the biggest British guitar groups of the 21^st century.

Tracklist:

CD1

1. How To Be Dead
2. Wow
3. Gleaming Auction
4. Whatever’s Left
5. Spitting Games
6. Chocolate
7. Run
8. Grazed Knees
9. Ways & Means
10. Tiny Little Fractures
11. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
12. Same
13. Steal
14. Stronger Than Before (demo)
15. By Heart (demo)
16. We Can Run Away Now They’re All Dead And Gone
17. Tired
18. Post Punk Progression

CD2

1. Chocolate (demo)
2. Run (demo)
3. Gleaming Auction (demo)
4. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (demo)
5. Grazed Knees (demo)
6. Spitting Games (demo)
7. Wow - Live at Somerset House
8. Gleaming Auction - Live at Somerset House
9. Spitting Games - Live at Somerset House
10. How To Be Dead - Live at Somerset House
11. Chocolate - Live at Somerset House
12. Same - Live at Somerset House
13. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking - Live at Somerset House
14. Ways & Means - Live at Somerset House
15. Run - Live at Somerset House
16. Post Punk Progression - Live at Somerset House
17. Tiny Little Fractures - Live at Somerset House