Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. in United States independent music stores. The EP, though, was made available as a digital download on iTunes from 20 December 2005. It can also be purchased through Park Ave.'s website. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by the alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance at the Park Ave. store, then located in Winter Park. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of
Gary Lightbody Dundee. Lightbody formed a band with Mark McClelland and drummer Michael Morrison in 1994, called Shrug. Morrison left the band later, and the band were forced to change the name to Polarbear, as another band had claimed the name. In the band's first seven years of existence, they added drummer Jonny Quinn, released two albums ("Songs for Polarbears", and "When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up"), and toured with bands such as Levellers, Ash and Travis. The band stayed in Glasgow during the recording of the first two albums. Lightbody used to hold a job at the