Nathan Connolly

"My Les Paul is a Tobacco 1979 Les Paul Custom, which is just one of the most beautiful guitar I've ever got my hands on. And I certainly won't be letting it go anytime soon."

"I've got two Tellys, which I use a lot. I've got a 1974 Sunburst Custom. I've got a 1977 Blond Custom. They're both very similar. The Sunburst I just adore, for a few years now."

"I've been basically using TC Electronics. They're Danish as far as I know. This time around, I've been using them. Before it was maybe just pedals or whatever that weren't as effective. So I've mainly gone to a rack. I use a D2 delay module. Yeah, it's called a D2. And then the reverb unit I use - I don't use a lot of other multi-effects, I use a little chorus on a couple of songs and a little trem on some of the stuff on Final Straw. But most of it on this record is delay and reverb. I think that unit's called an M2."

In this photo, which shows Nathan Connolly's pedalboard (photo posted originally by Snow Patrol on Twitter and later shared by RayGunFX), one of the pedals that can be seen in his board is the EHX Superego synth pedal.

"I used a Gretsch and a Black Duo Jet. A song like "Shut Your Eyes," with the short bong-bong, I used it in that. And "You're All I Have," actually underneath there's like a bong-bong, which I used the Gretsch a lot for."

"I got a 1965 Jaguar and a Sunburst Jaguar, too, I use as well. I mean, they were the main kind of guitars I used. There's going to be one or two other things that we tried or used for one bit in one song, but that was pretty much the guts of what I used."

In this photo, which shows Nathan Connolly's pedalboard (photo posted originally by Snow Patrol on Twitter and later shared by RayGunFX), one of the pedals that can be seen in his board is the Boss RV-5 reverb pedal.

In this photo, which shows Nathan Connolly's pedalboard (photo posted originally by Snow Patrol on Twitter and later shared by RayGunFX), one of the pedals that can be seen in his board is the Boss DD-3.

In this photo, which shows Nathan Connolly's pedalboard (photo posted originally by Snow Patrol on Twitter and later shared by RayGunFX), one of the pedals that can be seen in his board is the Raygun FX Aurora Delay.

In this photo, which shows Nathan Connolly's pedalboard (photo posted originally by Snow Patrol on Twitter and later shared by RayGunFX), one of the pedals that can be seen in his board is the Boss TU-2.

In the video For Empress you can see him use a pink worn looking stratocaster.