The Reindeer Section

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Name = The Reindeer Section

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Origin = Glasgow, Scotland
Genre = Indie rock
Years_active = 2001 – 2002
Label = Bright Star
Associated_acts = Alfie Arab Strap Astrid Belle & Sebastian Cadet Eva Idlewild Mogwai Mull Historical Society Snow Patrol Teenage Fanclub The Vaselines
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Current_members = Ben Dumville
Lee Gorton
Sam Morris
Colin Macpherson
Malcolm Middleton
Aidan Moffat
William Campbell
Charlie Clarke
Neil Payne
Gareth Russell
Richard Colburn
Mick Cooke
Bob Kildea
Iain Archer
Jenny Reeve
Sarah Roberts
Roddy Woomble
John Cummings
Colin MacIntyre
Gary Lightbody
Mark McClelland
Jonny Quinn
Norman Blake
Eugene Kelly
Michael Bannister
Roy Kerr
Paul Fox
Marcus Mackay
Gill Mills
Stacie Sievewright
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The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. The Reindeer Section grouping was somewhat ad hoc, and so it is uncertain if more will be heard from them, however in a 2006 interview with Times Online Gary Lightbody did not rule out making a future album.

Lightbody describes the band's sound as "pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-type stuff. Stuff that I really love listening to, like Low, for example, and Neil Young and Joni Mitchell 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." [http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/14128556]

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 Lou Barlow gig in Glasgow 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 Belfast's The Limelight. In television, the track "Will You 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 critical acclaim of the first, with a slightly different line-up. The single, "You Are My Joy" appeared on US show, "Grey's Anatomy", and on fourth season of US TV series "Queer as Folk". The song "Cartwheels" appeared on "The Second Chance", an episode of "The O.C.". The band's most recent gig was on 14 December 2002 at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow.

Band members

*Alfie
**Ben Dumville
**Lee Gorton
**Sam Morris
*Arab Strap
**Colin Macpherson
**Malcolm Middleton
**Aidan Moffat
*Astrid
**William Campbell
**Charlie Clarke
**Neil Payne
**Gareth Russell
*Belle & Sebastian
**Richard Colburn
**Mick Cooke
**Bobby Kildea
*Cadet
**Iain Archer
*Eva
**Jenny Reeve
**Sarah Roberts (Strike The Colours}
*Idlewild
**Roddy Woomble
**Gareth Russell (joined Idlewild in 2006)
*Mogwai
**John Cummings
*Mull Historical Society
**Colin MacIntyre
*Snow Patrol
**Gary Lightbody
**Mark McClelland
**Jonny Quinn
*Teenage Fanclub
**Norman Blake
*The Vaselines
**Eugene Kelly
*Michael Bannister
*Roy Kerr
*Paul Fox
*Marcus Mackay
*Gill Mills
*Stacie Sievewright
**The noisy geese
*Pete Mugleston
*Chris England
*Chris Healy
*Jack Donnelly

Discography

Albums

* "Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!" (October 30, 2001)
* "Son of Evil Reindeer" (August 13, 2002)

ingles

External links

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References