Friday has got off to a great start with Snow Patrol dropping a brand new video for Life on Earth, the second single from their first album in seven years, Wilderness.
The video was shot at the European Space Agency in Holland and was launched on Twitter by astronaut Tim Peake.
Delighted to premiere latest video from @SnowPatrol's upcoming #Wildness
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) April 12, 2018
album. Filmed at @esa's #ESTEC & @SpaceExpo in NL. You might recognise some of the locations. Snow Patrol helped to support my #Principia mission w/the #spacerocks competition!https://t.co/87R3YX5BvV pic.twitter.com/g2gFltw6dv
It features clips of space as well as pregnancy ultrasounds, and frontman Gary Lightbody exploring a space station.
Wilderness, the band's seventh studio album and first record in seven years, is set for release on May 25.
Speaking about the lead single from the album, Don't Give In, lead singer and songwriter, Gary Lightbody, said the song "was originally about a friend going through a tough time" but through writing it he realised it was also about himself.
"The more I wrote into it I realised it was about me and the struggle of making the album - which took five years and was not easy - coupled with the struggle with depression I’ve had since I was a kid, so it has become the talisman of the album. The song that became a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.
The band head off on tour ahead of the release of Wildness kicking things off in the Millenium Forum in Derry on May 11. They will then take to the stage in Cork (Opera House, May 12), Killarney (INEC, May 14), Dublin (Olympia Theatre, May 15), Wexford (Opera House, May 16) and Galway (Leisureland, May 18) before concluding proceedings at the Ulster Hall in Belfast on May 20.
