The band will say, naturally, that the gig is all about the music, and they're right. But it's also about much more than that.

Snow Patrol are now one of the biggest 'new' bands on the planet. So for them to perform in Bangor means so much more than just another gig, or even just another Northern Ireland gig.

The band - particularly frontman Gary Lightbody and drummer Jonny Quinn - are returning to their roots in a most spectacular fashion.

Considering they are one of the few British outfits to make it big in America in many years, it is an extraordinary gesture.

Tomorrow is not an 'unplugged' session in a local hostelry or some other half-hearted affair, but a full-blooded gig in front of tens of thousands of fans. In a brand new venue and in a town that has never before experienced a concert on the scale of this.

Snow Patrol are giving back to Bangor what the town helped to give them in the first place.

You can't ask much more from a band than that.