"Set the Fire to the Third Bar" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, featuring Martha Wainwright on vocals.

[6] On 12 November 2009, Snow Patrol performed a version of "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" with former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl for Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall.

Singers such as Lisa Hannigan, Miriam Kaufmann and actress Maria Doyle Kennedy have joined them during performances in the Republic of Ireland.

[9][10] In the United Kingdom they have been joined by artists such as Cheryl, and for their Royal Albert Hall show Andrea Corr[11] and unusually by a male vocalist, comedian James Corden.

Though he felt the song was not "boundary-pushing", it was "certainly interesting", with "Lightbody once again displaying the melodic lightness of touch which has served him so well both pre and post fame."

He called the song "a bleakly beautiful ballad" and it was a "rare moment where Snow Patrol's emotional ache feels genuinely heartfelt rather than borrowed from Chris Martin.

Lightbody's vocals are perfectly complemented by Canadian songstress Martha Wainwright, whose arrestingly haunting voice is put to good use."

He said that Martha Wainwright's contribution to the song made it "a trademark brooding Snow Patrol epic of Run or Chasing Cars".