The Reindeer Section are a Scottish

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supergroup formed in 2001 by

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, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. Lightbody describes the band's sound as "pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-type stuff. Stuff that I really love listening to, like

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, for example, and

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and

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and all that end of things. It's sort of inspired by those records rather than by the American rock music that inspired me to start a band in the first place." The songs "You Are My Joy" and "Cartwheels" were featured on the 2009 Snow Patrol best-of album, '' Up to Now''.

History

Formation and ''Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!'': 2001

The Reindeer Section arose – according to Lightbody – out of a chance get-together of musicians at a

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gig in

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in 2001, at which Lightbody drunkenly laid down the challenge to others to "make an album together", to which everyone said "yeah yeah". Lightbody "went home and next day wrote the album" and later convinced Johnny Davis of Bright Star to fund a recording session and release the proposed album. The group met over three days of rehearsal and ten days of recording to produce the first album. '' Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!'' was released on 20 October 2001 with a mini tour, the first venue of which was

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's The Limelight. In television, the track "Will You Please Be There For Me" was used in the closing of episode 39 of NBC's '' Ed''.

''Son of Evil Reindeer'' and hiatus: 2002

'' Son of Evil Reindeer'' was released ten months after the first, with a slightly different line-up. The single, "You Are My Joy" appeared on US show, ''

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'', and on the fourth series of US TV series ''

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''. The song "Cartwheels" appeared on " The Second Chance", an episode of ''

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''. The band's most recent gig was on 14 December 2002 at the Queen Margaret Union in

Band members

* Alfie ** Ben Dumville ** Lee Gorton ** Sam Morris *

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** Colin Macpherson **

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* Astrid ** William Campbell ** Charlie Clark ** Neil Payne ** Gareth Russell *

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** Richard Colburn ** Mick Cooke ** Bobby Kildea * Cadet **

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* Eva ** Jenny Reeve (Strike The Colours) ** Sarah Roberts * Idlewild ** Roddy Woomble ** Gareth Russell (joined Idlewild in 2006) *

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** John Cummings * Mull Historical Society **

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Mark McClelland Mark Peter McClelland (born 30 March 1976) is a Northern Irish musician known best as the former bass guitarist of the band Snow Patrol. McClelland is a recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for his work on the album ''Final Straw''. He is now th ...

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** Norman Blake *

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* The Wendys ** Johnny MacArthur ** Jonathan Renton * The Moth & the Mirror ** Stacey Sievwright * Michael Bannister * Roy Kerr * Paul Fox * Marcus Mackay * Gill Mills * The Noisy Geese

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reindeer Section The Scottish indie rock groups Musical collectives British supergroups Snow Patrol Musical groups established in 2001