Snow Patrol are one of the biggest and boldest bands of the past decade. Over fifteen years and five studio albums, the part Scottish, part Irish five piece - singer songwriter Gary Lightbody, bassist Paul Wilson, guitarist Nathan Connolly, Jonny Quinn on drums and keyboardist Tom Simpson - have sketched heart-bruised ballads (Set Down Your Glass) and arm-around-your-best-mate festival anthems (Run); radio hits (Chasing Cars) and moments of painful introspection (You Could Be Happy). All of these have been gathered together for Up To Now - a thirty track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities, album tracks and a handful of new songs as well as compositions by the Reindeer Section - an indie supergroup featuring members of Scotland's guitar elite - Belle and Sebastian, Idlewild and Teenage Fanclub among many others - and co-ordinated by Lightbody. "It's a portrait of us as a band, warts and all" says Lightbody. "We've climbed a hill and now we're looking back and taking in the view for a bit. It's nice to show people that we didn't just arrive overnight. From their formation in Scotland in 1994, the band's hard-earned rise has seen them become one of the world's biggest bands, culminating in them selling over ten million copies of their last three albums (2003's 'Final Straw', 'Eyes Open' - released in 2006 - and last year's 'A Hundred Million Suns'), taking in Grammy, BRIT, BMI, Meteor and Ivor Novello nominations and awards along the way.