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The Reindeer
Section
return with a brand new single ‘You Are My
joy’
Barely a year ago Gary Lightbody,
frontman
and principal songwriter with Irish bred/Glasgow based 3
piece
Snow Patrol, rounded up 21 of Glasgow’s finest
musicians
from the audience at a local gig. In a flash of drunken
inspiration,
the Reindeer Section was born. One day¹s songwriting,
and a week in the studio later, the album ‘All Get
Scared
Now, Ya Hear?’ was completed and released in August on
Belfast’s Bright Star Recordings label.
Eight months on, and with another set of
songs suitable for the Reindeer Section treatment burning
a hole in Gary’s songbook,(alongside an albums worth
of new Snow Patrol material) it was time to pick up the
phone
and see who was around.
Over 2 weeks in February this year the
Reindeer
Section, with it’s ranks now swollen to a near platoon
of 27, recorded the follow-up to All Get Scared... with
Gary
pooling a core band of Snow Patrol associate Jonny Quinn,
Astrid’s Neil Payne, Charlie Clarke, Willy Campbell
and
Gareth Russell and Eva¹s Jenny Reeve. The individual
talents of the following added to the magic: Mark McLelland
(Snow Patrol) John Cummings (Mogwai), Eugene Kelly (The
Vaselines),
Lee Gorton, Sam Morris & Ben Dumville (Alfie), Aidan
Moffat,
Malcolm Middleton & Colin MacPherson (Arab Strap),
Sarah
Roberts (Eva), Roddy Woomble (Idlewild), Norman Blake
(Teenage
Fanclub), Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke & Bob Kildea
(Belle
& Sebastian), Iain Archer (Cadet) and Stacey
Sievewright,
Paul Fox and Marcus Mackay.
The quality of the song-writing is
undeniable,
with Gary fronting eight and guest vocalists taking the
lead
on 4 other tracks: Lee Gorton, Aiden Moffat, Roddy Woomble,
and a duet between Jenny Reeve and Eugene Kelly.
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