Legal snow

Mark McClelland's not-entirely-smooth departure from Snow Patrol has got even more complicated, as his attempts to get some cash out the band are now spilling over into legal action.

McClelland wants some of the spoils of the success he feels he helped create - which is fair enough, but if he gets, says 10% of the cash, shouldn't he also take ten per cent of the criticism of the band's mimsying, heartless waste of electronics?

Snow flurry

Mark McClelland, who was in Snow Patrol before Gary Lightbody told him they had creative differences, has prepared his riposte: Little Doses, which is a clunker of a name. (Does anyone else associate 'dose' with STDs? Just me then?)

He is aware that he'll be compared with the his former employers, but... well, he's setting his sights high:

"At first, reviewers will draw comparisons and take the Snow Patrol angle - and I can't help that.

"But once you've seen us play, you'll see we're a different proposition, we're a band in our own right. This is a new era; this is Led Zeppelin after The Yardbirds."

Well, to be fair, Led Zeppelin is an absolute clunker of a name as well.