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Other Musical Projects

As a songwriter/bandleader, he has written songs and lyrics for a wide variety of artists and genres.

In 2000, he formed the Scottish supergroup The Reindeer Section, comprising 47 musicians from 20 different bands, including members of bands like Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Idlewild, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap and other musicians. The group released Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear! in 2001 and Son of Evil Reindeer in 2002.

2000–2002
  • In addition to work on Snow Patrol and side-project material, Lightbody has also lent his voice to the band Mogwai (one track on Rock Action).
  • In 2001, he contributed furthermore British breakbeat/electronica musician Cut La Roc's song Fallen.
2005–2006
  • In 2005, he was included in another musical collective, The Cake Sale, formed by Brian Crosby to raise funds and awareness for Ireland's Make Trade Fair campaign. He partnered with Lisa Hannigan to perform "Some Surprise", a song written by Bell X1's Paul Noonan. The song reached #5 on Irish charts as a radio–single release.
  • He contributed vocals to The Freelance Hellraisers Waiting for Clearance debut album in 2006 and for UK producer Kidda's debut album Going Up.
2007–2008
  • As songwriter for the track "Just Say Yes" for Nicole Scherzinger's debut solo album Her Name Is Nicole but due to the album being shelved the single was re-recorded by Pussycat Dolls and remains unreleased by Scherzinger. In 2009 Gary Lightbody announced in an interview that Snow Patrol would be releasing "Just Say Yes" as the first single from their Up to Now compilation record.
  • In 2007, he lent his voice to British house musician and DJ Cut La Roc's track Mishka on his album Larger Than Life which is yet to be released.
2008–2009
  • In 2009, he announced that he had begun work on two solo side projects, a country group Tired Pony and an avant-garde group with Snow Patrol producer Jacknife Lee: Listen... Tanks!.
  • August/September 2009: Gary Lightbody joined with bandmates Johnny Quinn and Nathan Connolly to form Polar Music, a publishing music company "run by artists for artists" in cooperation with Universal Music Group and which will be administered by Kobalt Music in London. Polar Music's debut signing is artist Johnny McDaid from Northern Ireland who is currently writing with German Electronica/Trance DJ Paul van Dyk for an album due in 2010.
2010
  • In January, Gary Lightbody recorded in Portland, Oregon the debut album of his side project Tired Pony with title The Place We Ran From. The album's release was announced for July 12, 2010. This new supergroup he founded includes Jacknife Lee as producer and musicians like R.E.M.'s guitarist/co-founder Peter Buck, Editors singer Tom Smith, singer and songwriter Iain Archer, Belle & Sebastian's drummer Richard Colburn, The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5 singer Scott McCaughey, She & Him singer Zooey Deschanel, Snow Patrol's touring member guitarist Troy Stewart and guitarist M. Ward.
  • Gary Lightbody and producer Jacknife Lee contributed to the original score for the Irish film My Brothers, which appeared in the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
  • Gary Lightbody lends his songwriting and vocal talents to Mishka, a collaboration with Cut La Roc, released on La Roc's 2010 album, 'Larger Than Life'.
  • During 2010, on tour for several concerts of Snow Patrol and Tired Pony in Europe, U.S.A. and South America
  • Collaboration with former Kinks singer Ray Davies on Davies' album See My Friends as song Tired Of Waiting
2012
  • Several TV-performances on European and American shows as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Late Show with David Letterman
  • Performs with Snow Patrol at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony Concert in Hyde Park, London
  • Featured on the track "The Last Time" on Taylor Swift's 2012 album Red
  • Performs with Ed Sheeran at the iTunes festival singing a duet of "Chasing Cars"
2013
  • Along with Johnny McDaid, performs at the Derry/Londonderry City of Culture Sons and Daughters concert, plays a three song acoustic set singing "Run", "Just Say Yes" (the festival's anthem) and "Chasing Cars".
  • Lightbody, Nathan Connoly and Johnny McDaid play at the Comic Relief 'Funny for Money' show and perform Lifening.
  • Forms "Gary Lightbody and the Assembly" at Stormont for TEDx, records a song, and speaks for TEDx.
  • Appears in a cameo in the Game of Thrones episode "Walk of Punishment"

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