Snow Patrol announce album details

Fans who were up early this morning had the chance to hear a special Snow Patrol gig live from the band's living room, broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

For the rest of us, the wonders of modern technology mean we can listen to it here just as soon as it's filed away into the archives.

The band played the special living room acoustic set on Joe Whiley's show, featuring the new single 'Take Back The City', which is available for download from October 5, and on general release October 13.

The single is the first to be taken from the new Snow Patrol album A Hundred Million Suns, which is out here on October 24.

As well as the standard CD and DVD releases, the album will also be out in a Special Edition package with two behind-the-scenes docs following the band through rehearsals and into the studio, and on double gatefold vinyl.