Person · Male
Iain Archer
- From
- Bangor, United Kingdom
- Since
- 1971–present
- Rating
- ★ 5
- Releases
- 13
About
Iain Archer is a Northern Irish writer, producer, singer and songwriter from Bangor. He is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner, winning the 2004 Album Award – Final Straw by Snow Patrol and Most Performed Work in 2016 for Grammy nominated "Hold Back the River", which he co-wrote with James Bay. Additionally, Archer was a 2013 Ivor Novello Award nominee for Best Song Musically & Lyrically – "Two Fingers" by Jake Bugg.
Member of
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The Reindeer Section additional
Discography
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Also known as
Iain Denis Archer
Tags
- rock and indie
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- a586b28a-b1f3-4c20-964a-6a8501ee4aa8
- ISNI
- 0000000056986631
- IPI
- 00256247950
- IPI
- 00256248163
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