Iain Archer
71,715 monthly listeners
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I Don’t Want To Go To You
101,003
How All This Ends
31,377
Take on the World (New Version)
2,507,685
Church of your Fathers
15,563
Canal Song (End of Sentence)
814,520
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How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)Latest Release • Album
How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)2026 • Album
Magnetic North2006 • Album
To The Pine Roots2009 • Album
Magnetic North2006 • Album
Flood the Tanks (Re-Release)2005 • Album
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71,715 monthly listeners
b. Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Iain Archer has been recording albums since the mid-90s, but only made an impact beyond his devoted fanbase with the release of 2004’s Flood The Tanks.
Archer was raised in a musical family and by his early teens was playing the guitar and writing his own songs. He moved to Glasgow, Scotland, at the start of the 90s, and began to build up a following on the city’s live circuit. He recorded two folk pop albums that were well received but completely overlooked, and despite invitations to tour with John Martyn and David Gray his music career was foundering by the end of the decade. He relocated to London and began working in a hostel for the homeless. Fate was to intervene in the shape of Jonny Quin of fellow Irishmen Snow Patrol, who invited Archer to join the band for a number of live shows. Archer stayed with Snow Patrol and helped co-write three songs on their breakthrough album Final Straw (his songwriting credit on the hit single ‘Run’ led to an Ivor Novello Award in 2005). He also recorded with the Snow Patrol side project Reindeer Section.
The influence of Snow Patrol was apparent on Archer’s new album, Flood The Tanks, which demonstrated a greater affinity with indie pop than his previous folk-tinged releases. The stand-out tracks included the wistful ‘Summer Jets’ and ‘Running In Dreams’. The Snow Patrol connection helped generate greater interest in the media, and the album was picked up for reissue by the independent label Play It Again Sam.
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