The Reindeer Section

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The Reindeer Section
The Reindeer Section class photograph released for the second album in 2002
The Reindeer Section class photograph released for the second album in 2002
Background information
Origin Glasgow, Scotland
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Years active 2001 - 2002
Associated
acts		 Alfie
Arab Strap
Astrid
Belle & Sebastian
Cadet
Eva
Idlewild
Mogwai
Mull Historical Society
Snow Patrol
Teenage Fanclub
The Vaselines

The Reindeer Section is 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 recent interview with the Times Online, Gary Lightbody declared his interest in recording another album once work finishes on the next Snow Patrol album at the end of 2007.

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 Davies of Bright Star Recordings 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. The album was released with a mini tour, the first venue of which was Belfast's The Limelight venue.

A second album was released ten months after the critical acclaim of the first, with a slightly different line-up. The most recent gig was on December 14 2002 at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow.

Contents

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Discography

[edit] Trivia

[edit] External links

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