Spitting Games is the lead single from Snow Patrol’s third album, Final Straw, released on 15 September 2003.

It was featured on the video game MVP Baseball 2004 and numerous Club Football 2005 titles. The track was also featured in “Everything Changes”, the first episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, and later in the episode “Greeks Bearing Gifts”, in 2006. It was featured on an episode of the second season of the teen drama One Tree Hill.

Snow Patrol released the song during their first UK Tour during the Final Straw Tour. To mark the release, the band made a previously unheard track for free download on their official site, titled “Half the Fun of It”.

Snow Patrol were one of the acts chosen in AOL Music’s “Breakers” in December 2003, a program to promote bands for months leading up to the release of their respective albums in the United States. During the time of the band’s promotion, lead UK single “Spitting Games” was downloaded a million times, and was released as a stand-alone single in March 2004 in the week of the band’s appearance at South by Southwest Festival.

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