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When three musicians grow up together, as neighbours, going to school, and generally enjoying a misspent youth in each other's company, the inevitable is bound to happen. Long time friends Kathy Snowe, Eamonn Doyle and Paul Doyle did all that, and from time to time over the years played in bands together. Occasionally they had discussed doing something musically, but it wasn't 'til late 2005 that the decision was made to come together and form SnowDial. Paul had just finished a degree in film studies in the UK, and had been doing some touring in Europe with Eamonn on a project that was about to come to an end, and Kathy, now a music teacher, had been off in the U.S. playing around Boston and Hartford's coffee houses… It's getting into mid-twenties time folks…about the time where people's rock and roll dreams start to die if they're not careful. But the dreams weren't dead yet and there was time to give it one last shot. They decided to get together, write some stuff, play it out, if nothing happened, they'd call it quits. SnowDial was born. The writing began, with Eamonn and Kathy making the rounds of Dublin's singer songwriter nights and unplugged sessions, testing the material out. Meanwhile the guys built their own rehearsal space and started working on the full arrangement of the new songs and generally finding their musical direction and the best way to get across the sound that was in their heads. Three piece bands have one common difficulty, and that's achieving a b