Tom Dunne: Iain Archer is the ideal man to bring the Ivors Academy to Ireland  

The former Snow Patrol member has written some brilliant songs through the years 

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 Summer Jets from his album Flood the Tanks.

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 John O’ Dreams once. It was like the world just went still.