The Place We Ran From The Place We Ran From The Place We Ran From is the debut album by the alternative rock/alt country supergroup Tired Pony, released on July 5, 2010, through Polydor/Fiction in the United Kingdom and on July 28, 2010, in the United States by Mom and Pop. The album grew from what was initially a solo project for Snow Patrol songwriter Gary Lightbody which rapidly became a collaboration with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M., and producer Jacknife Lee joining as well as contributions from actress and singer Zooey Deschanel, guitarist M. Ward, and Tom Smith of the indie rock group
Robert Lightbody Robert Lightbody Robert Lightbody (22 January 1802 – 5 July 1874) was a British amateur geologist and member of the Ludlow Natural History Society. Lightbody was born in Liverpool in 1802. His parents, John Lightbody and Harriet Hughes, were non-conformists and members of the Unitarian Church. In 1829 Lightbody still had links with the Liverpool area when he was bound as a clerk to George Ashby Pritt, Liverpool attorney. In 1840 he married Jane Peele in Shrewsbury, and by 1841 he moved to Llanllwchaiarn in Wales. During his time in Wales at least four of his six children were born,