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Snow Patrol set up publishing outfit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 4 September 2009
Snow Patrol are setting up a music publishing company to be called Polar Music. The new venture will see the band seek out and support new songwriting talent. It will be independent of their own publishing deal with Universal, and will be administered by those Kobalt Music guys.
Confirming the new venture, the band’s drummer, Jonny Quinn, told Billboard: “We intend to do one-album deals at a time so we don’t tie anyone into a five-album deal because we’ve been through it ourselves. Hopefully if we do a good job they’ll come back and do another album with us”.
The new publisher’s first signing is Johnny McDaid, formerly of Vega4, who, like the Patrol, originally harks from Northern Ireland.
