SNOW PATROL ALBUM COMPETITION

SNOW PATROL will release their new single 'Just Say Yes' this week on Fiction Records. It is one of three brand new tracks which appear on 'Up To Now', a collection of the band's best-loved songs, which will be released on November 9th.

SNOW PATROL: New album

Snow Patrol are one of the biggest and boldest bands of the past decade. Over 15 years and five studio albums, the part Irish, part Scottish five piece - singer songwriter Gary Lightbody, bassist Paul Wilson, guitarist Nathan Connolly, Jonny Quinn on drums and keyboardist Tom Simpson - have sketched heart-bruised ballads (Set Down Your Glass) and arm-around-your-best-mate festival anthems (Run); radio hits (Chasing Cars) and moments of painful introspection (You Could Be Happy).

All of these have been gathered together for 'Up To Now' - a 30-track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities, album tracks and a handful of new songs as well as compositions by the Reindeer Section - an indie supergroup featuring members of Scotland's guitar elite - Belle and Sebastian, Idlewild and Teenage Fanclub among many others - and co-ordinated by Lightbody.

"It's a portrait of us as a band, warts and all" says Lightbody. "We've climbed a hill and now we're looking back and taking in the view for a bit. It's nice to show people that we didn't just arrive overnight."

From their formation in Scotland in 1994, the band's hard-earned rise has seen them become one of the world's biggest bands, culminating in them selling over 10 million copies of their last three albums (2003's 'Final Straw', 'Eyes Open' - released in 2006 - and last year's 'A Hundred Million Suns'), taking in Grammy, BRIT, BMI, Meteor and Ivor Novello nominations and awards along the way.

We have 10 albums to give away in another exclusive competition!

Simply answer this question correctly for your chance to win a copy.

Where is the 2010 World Cup being staged?

A. South America

B. South Africa

C. South of France

Please send your entries to competition@newsoftheworld.co.uk - not forgetting to include your name, address and phone number.

The closing date for entries is Friday, November 13. The usual News of the World terms and conditions apply.

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