Tom Dunne: Iain Archer is the ideal man to bring the Ivors Academy to Ireland
Iain Archer in his Snow Patrol days at the Ivor Novello Awards 2005 in London. Picture: Gareth Davies/Getty Images.
Oxegen Festival: 2004. Over two days, for live radio, there are numerous interviews and intimate acoustic sessions from Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, BellX1, and many more. But it’s Iain Archer I remember. He did from his album
Acoustic sessions, the simpler the better, are wonderful things. The intimacy, the sense of getting a peek behind the curtain, the song stripped back to its core. I remember Christy Moore doing once. It was like the world just went still.
