Tired Pony began life as a doodle in Gary Lightbody's jotter. During idle moments on Snow Patrol's year-long tour cycle for their last album, A Hundred Million Suns, Gary began writing songs for this imaginary band.

Forward to January 4th 2010, a cast of characters assembled at Portland's Type Foundry studio; singer songwriter Iain Archer, Troy Stewart, Belle & Sebastian's Richard Colburn and producer Garret 'Jacknife' Lee, (U2, Editors, Crystal Castles) 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.

The result is The Place We Ran  The album will finally see its release on 12th July and you can hear all the tracks from the album now here