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Tired Pony began life as a doodle in Gary Lightbody’s jotter. During idle moments on Snow Patrol’s year-long tour for A Hundred Million Suns, Gary began writing songs for this imaginary band having earlier in the year hinted at his ambition to form a country band. Forward to January 4th 2010, a cast of characters assembled at Portland’s Type Foundry; from the extended Snow Patrol family there was Troy Stewart, the band’s guitar technician, Iain Archer, long-time Snow Patrol associate and collaborator, Richard Colburn, the renowned drummer with Belle & Sebastian, and producer Garret 'Jacknife' Lee, who brought in Tired Pony’s final two members, Peter Buck from R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey, the Seattle musical polymath who’s been R.E.M.’s full-time auxiliary member since 1994. Tired Pony were joined by a number of guest contributors including M. Ward, his She & Him partner Zooey Deschanel (who sings harmony on "Get On The Road") and Tom Smith of Editors, who sings lead vocal on "The Good Book".

 

'I Finally Love This Town':

 

Behind the scenes and stuff...

 

 

 

ZOOOOOEEEEYYYYYYY! :wub:

 

 

 

Pre-Order the album from Amazon!

I shall order this as it sounds interesting,it will fill the gap to the next snow patrol album aswell.

I still havnt recieved my copy yet, anyone get a copy, if so what do u think of it.

I am waiting on other opinions before deciding on whether to get this or not

I love this album so much....

Snow Patrol and REM supergroup Tired Pony to 'record new album in February'

http://www.nme.com/news/snow-patrol/53228

 

Gary Lightbody, Peter Buck and co will head to Tennessee to work on the follow-up to 'The Place We Ran From'

 

Snow Patrol and REM supergroup Tired Pony have announced they will record a new album in February.

 

The band – which features Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, REM's Peter Buck, Belle & Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn and producer Garret 'Jacknife' Lee among others – will head into the studio early next year.

 

"We're going to tour the states at the end of this month and we'll go into the studio to make the new album next year," Lightbody told Spinner. "Snow Patrol will be recording a new album from November to the end of January and when it's finished I'll go in and record the new Tired Pony album in February."

 

Set to be the follow-up to their debut studio effort, 'The Place We Ran From', Lightbody revealed that the album would have "more of a bluesy kind of feel".

 

"We're probably going to make it in Nashville or in Memphis," he explained. "What we're going to do [with each successive album] is make it in a different city and then use musicians from that city. So with Memphis, you'll have big horns and more of a bluesy kind of feel and we'll make it a bit tougher."

I hope this doesnt slow up the recording of the new snow patrol album.