Question: What was founded first, Alt-J or Snow Patrol?

Context articles: Starfighter Pilot (song)
Sas Metcalfe
Snow Patrol discography
Little Hide
Listen... Tanks!
List of number-one albums of 2011 (Netherlands)
Snow Patrol
Sessions@AOL (Snow Patrol EP)
Alt-J
Up to Now

"Starfighter Pilot" was the fourth single released by Snow Patrol, and the second track on their debut album "Songs for Polarbears".
 The lyrics were written by Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Lightbody and the other two members of Snow Patrol at the time, Mark McClelland and Jonny Quinn.
Sas Metcalfe is President, Global Creative, of Kobalt Music and has been at the company since it was founded in 2001.
 She is a British music executive, based in Los Angeles, who has worked her entire career in the music industry, for a number of music publishers and record labels signing artists such as Radiohead, Bjork, Snow Patrol, Alt-J and David Gray.
The discography of Snow Patrol, an alternative rock band from Northern Ireland and based in Dundee, Scotland, consists of six studio albums, twenty-eight singles, eight extended plays, two compilation albums and one live DVD.
 Snow Patrol was formed in 1994 by Gary Lightbody, Michael Morrison and Mark McClelland under the name Shrug.
 They released an extended play (EP) titled "The Yogurt vs. Yogurt Debate".
 Morrison left in 1995, and the band changed their name to Polarbear.
 Under this name they released their other EP, "Starfighter Pilot", on the Electric Honey label.
 Drummer Jonny Quinn joined in 1997 and the band signed to Jeepster Records the same year.
 They then underwent their final name change to Snow Patrol.
 The band's first two studio albums: "Songs for Polarbears" and "When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up" were released in 1998 and 2001 respectively, but failed to do well commercially.
 Subsequently, the band was dropped by the label.
"Little Hide" was the first single released by Scotland-based alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
 It was released on 16 February 1998 under the Jeepster Records label.
 It is notable for being the first release by Snow Patrol for the label.
Listen... Tanks!
 is an avant-garde music group, consisting of Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) and producer Jacknife Lee, who has produced the last three albums for Snow Patrol, among others.
 The group's music is very different from Snow Patrol and has been termed "weird" by Lightbody.
 The group will visit Lee's home in January 2010 to record an album, after they finish working on another project Tired Pony.
In 2011, 22 albums advanced to number one on the Mega Album Top 100, the official Dutch albums chart.
 The first album to appear on the Album Top 100 that year was Caro Emerald's "Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor", the last being "Christmas" by Michael Bublé.
 Artists and bands who had an album reach number one on the chart for at least one week were Caro Emerald, , Marco Borsato, Bruno Mars, Adele, BLØF, Ben Saunders, Guus Meeuwis, Anouk, Amy Winehouse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gerard Joling, Gordon, Rene Froger, Jeroen van der Boom, De Toppers, SuperHeavy, De Dijk, Coldplay, Frans Bauer, Snow Patrol, K3, Nick & Simon and Michael Bublé, and out of these artists, Bruno Mars, BLØF, Ben Saunders, SuperHeavy and Snow Patrol had achieved a number-one album for the first time.
 Adele's "21" was the best-performing album of 2011, topping the Album Top 100's 2011 year-end chart.
Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish-Scottish rock band formed in 1993, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals), Jonny Quinn (drums), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, backing vocals).
 Initially an indie rock band, the band rose to prominence in the early-mid 2000s as part of the post-Britpop movement.
Sessions@AOL is the title of two separate EPs by alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
 Both EPs feature the band's performance at AOL music.
 Snow Patrol was one of the acts chosen in AOL Music's "Breakers" in December 2003, a program to promote bands for months leading up to the release of their respective albums in the United States.
 Snow Patrol's appearance on the sessions was a part of the program.
Alt-J, stylised as alt-J, are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds, by Gwil Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums) and Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals).
Up to Now is the first compilation album by alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
 The album features tracks spanning Snow Patrol's fifteen-year music career, including tracks from The Reindeer Section, a side-project/supergroup involving musicians from all over Scotland.
 The album was released in early November 2009, primarily as a two-disc set and a three-disc digipak format containing one DVD of bonus material.
 A limited edition heavyweight box was also sold.
 Three new songs were released on the album.
 One of these was "Just Say Yes", the lead single taken from the compilation.
 The solo re-recording of "An Olive Grove Facing the Sea" was released as the album's second single.
 In Netherlands, Belgium and Finland "Run" was re-released in a version called "Run (2010 Version)" in January 2010.