Snow Patrol have announced an extra Belfast date to meet overwhelming demand - even before the first tickets have gone on sale!

They will now play a second consecutive night at Belfast's Ulster Hall on December 23.

Tickets go on sale at 9.30am on Saturday July 31. hotpress.com has also been informed that a limited number of tickets for December 22 have been held back for visitors to snowpatrol.net who should consult the site's Fan Forum at 9am on Friday July 30 for a password that will gain them access to the online order form.

The How To Be Dead tour has been doing brisk business all round with Snow Patrol's December 19 to 21 residency at the Glasgow Barrowlands selling-out in under three hours.