The Reindeer Section

The Reindeer Section
Promotional photograph from 2002
Promotional photograph from 2002
Background information
OriginGlasgow, Scotland
GenresIndie rock
Years active2001–2002
LabelsBright Star
MembersBen Dumville
Lee Gorton
Sam Morris
Colin Macpherson
Malcolm Middleton
Aidan Moffat
William Campbell
Charles Clark
Neil Payne
Gareth Russell
Richard Colburn
Mick Cooke
Bobby Kildea
Iain Archer
Jenny Reeve
Sarah Roberts
Roddy Woomble
John Cummings
Colin MacIntyre
Gary Lightbody
Mark McClelland
Jonny Quinn
Norman Blake
Eugene Kelly
Johnny MacArthur
Jonathan Renton
Michael Bannister
Roy Kerr
Paul Fox
Marcus Mackay
Gill Mills
Stacie Sievewright

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.

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."[1]

The songs "You Are My Joy" and "Cartwheels" were featured on the 2009 Snow Patrol best-of album, Up to Now.

  1. ^ [1] Archived 19 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine