Gary Lightbody, guitarist and Mark McClelland, keyboardist began the band in 1994 while they were going to college in Dundee Scotland. These two boys from Northern Ireland had a dream of introducing their own sound and they have. In the early days, the band was known as Shrug and they played at the Dundee University and other pubs locally.

In 1995, they changed their name to Polarbear. Their first three track EP was released in 1997 under the title Starfighter Pilot with the label Electric Honey. An American Band also had the same name for their band, thus they changed their name once again, and this time to the name, we all know Snow Patrol.

Under the name Snow Patrol, they released an EP on Jeepster Records by the title of Little Hide, in addition to a few singles such as One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed.

Their real fame began once they were interviewed on MTV even though the main interview was centered around Jeepster instead of the music, in 1998. Two more albums were released under the Jeepster label, which were Songs For Polarbears in 1998 and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up in 2001.

Jeepster dropped the group and they signed with the mainstream label Polydor. From here, success was in the bag. Their song, Run debuted at #5 on the UK singles chart, the album Final Straw hit #3 on the UK albums chart and three other singles reached the top 30.

In 2004, Final Straw was released in the US and in December 2005, they released their album Eyes Open. Many things have stopped Snow Patrol from a complete tour in the US, from polyps on Lightbody's vocal chords to the threat of terrorist attacks on US bound flights from the UK.

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