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Tired Pony Add Second London Show

• 27th May 2010

Tired Pony have announced they will play a second show at The HMV Forum in London on the evening of July 14th. The first show sold out in twenty minutes and in response to the huge demand for tickets the band have added a second performance on the same evening, which will commence at 11.15pm, with doors opening at 10.30pm.

These shows will be the first time the band – which was put together by Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody – will have performed together live. Tired Pony features a cast of characters; from the extended Snow Patrol family there is Troy Stewart, regular touring member of the band, 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. In January this year they assembled at Portland’s Type Foundry studio and over the course of a few days recorded their debut album The Place We Ran From, which will be released on July 12th on Fiction Records.

“It’s inspired by my love of Wilco, Calexico, Lambchop, Palace, Smog, these bands that look at the darkness in America,” Gary explains. “I wanted to write a twisted love-letter to the States.”

Tired Pony were joined by a number of guest contributors including M. Ward and his She & Him partner Zooey Deschanel and Tom Smith of Editors.