Tired Pony directed by Paul Fraser (a longtime collaborator of Shane Meadows). On 13 October 2009, Lightbody debuted a Tired Pony song during Snow Patrol's tour stop in Portland, called "I Finally Love This Town". While playing an acoustic session for radio station KINK, he introduced the song, which he said he had written the previous night. He said that the song was "written in Portland, inspired by Portland." Tired Pony Tired Pony is a music supergroup consisting of Gary Lightbody, Richard Colburn, Iain Archer, Jacknife Lee, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Troy Stewart. Lightbody formed the group out of his appreciation
Robert Lightbody the few members listed as present when meetings were cancelled or postponed due to insufficient numbers. Lightbody was elected to the Woolhope Club in 1855, and served as its president in 1861. He was also a member of the Severn Valley Naturalists' Field Club and of the Caradoc Field Club (which merged). In 1863 he read a paper at the Ludlow meeting of the Severn Valley Naturalists' Field club titled "The Geology of Ludlow", which was later published in the Club Transactions. J.W. Salter records that Lightbody was responsible for discovering the earliest known Pteraspid in the Welsh Borders, "Archaegonaspis