The tour was however, marred by cancellations mainly because of vocalist Gary Lightbody's throat problems and bassist Paul Wilson's shoulder injury.

Drummer Jonny Quinn broke his arm, but no shows were cancelled as Graham Hopkins pitched in to take up drumming duties.

The band visited countries like New Zealand and Mexico for the first time and played their first concert in Southeast Asia during the course of the tour.

Snow Patrol's official website initially offered tickets for the secret gig SG#3 to registered members on the forum.

It was later announced that a limited number of tickets would be made available at Virgin Megastores, Royal Avenue, Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 February 2006 at 9 am.

[3] During the North American Tour of February–April 2007, the band played an intimate show for friend Diana Gualda.

[11][12] For the secret O2 show, the band held back 1,000 tickets from general sale, and gave them away to the website members for free.

[41] Tickets for the UK & Ireland Winter Arena Tour went on pre-sale to website members on 10 May 9 am and continued till 12 May 9 am.

[62] To generate buzz about the then upcoming album, Snow Patrol played a secret gig in Belfast in mid-February.

[65] Snow Patrol debuted three new songs for the 200-strong crowd: "Hands Open", "Chasing Cars" and "Make This Go on Forever".

[70] Snow Patrol undertook a short UK & Ireland Tour to coincide with the release of Eyes Open on 1 May.

The tour began at Dublin Castle (at the Heineken Green Energy Festival) and was to finish with two nights at The Forum, London.

[71] But due to tickets selling out quickly and the success of SG#3, an additional date was added at the Ulster Hall.

They had kept the city as a surprise location on a previous tour two years before and had visited there for the first time, expect lukewarm reaction.

[90] Artists like The Cinematics, Declan O'Rourke, Asyl and Joseph D'Anvers supported the band throughout the tour on different dates.

[96] Martha Wainwright was replaced as female lead vocalist for "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" because of her commitments in the studio.

[97] In the middle of the Winter Arena Tour, Snow Patrol headed to the United States to play a few radio shows.

[104] Ahead of the tour, drummer Jonny Quinn broke his arm in a snowboarding accident in the French Alps.

The band had to cancel several of their shows before on the tour when bassist Paul Wilson injured his arm and shoulder and when vocalist Gary Lightbody developed laryngitis and lost his voice.

Not wanting to cancel shows, the band recruited longtime friend Graham Hopkins to replace Quinn.

[118] After spending the summer playing at various rock festivals, Snow Patrol headlined another North American Tour.

Later, a day before kicking off their UK & Ireland Tour of May 2006, the band played a lone date at the Virgin Megastores in Dundrum.

They organized a mini festival, which featured various support acts – Ash, The Dead 60s, Simple Kid, Kowalski and We Are Scientists.

Keyboardist Tom Simpson was arrested on 7 July 2007, which put the band's headlining set the next day (at T in the Park) in jeopardy.

He was held at London's Heathrow Airport on the suspicion of possessing Class A drugs, mere hours after the band played at Live Earth, which made him miss the Oxegen Festival performance that night.

[135] The appearance at Bangkok's 100 Rock Festival marked the first time the band played in Southeast Asia.

[136] At Lollapalooza, the band was joined by Silversun Pickups' bassist Nikki Monninger to sing Martha Wainwright's vocal parts on "Set the Fire to the Third Bar".

[3] The band played a special, intimate acoustic show on 3 March in aid of friend, photographer Diana Gualda, who suffers from multiple sclerosis.

To mark the event, Gary Lightbody posted a blog on Snow Patrol's official website about his experience in Australia and discussed the band's future plans.

This time, two fans were chosen as winners for each show to be the official Snow Patrol Tour Reporters.