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FOY VANCE – CLOSED HANDS FULL OF FRIENDSįor this one, I needed Gary Lightbody, who tweeted me some thoughts on what is his favourite Northern Irish song of all time. Yes it’s a little sugary and overly sentimental, but it still remains a gorgeous, beautifully crafted love song and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that.ġ8. Within one song, they went from a band merely capable of stardom, to one of the biggest in the world. If ‘Run’ saved them, ‘Casing Cars’ made them. It also introduced Tim Wheeler as a man who dealt exclusively in mammoth pop hooks. ‘Guaranteed Real Teenagers’ boasted the promo for Ash’s early releases – not that we needed to be told as ‘Girl From Mars’s was youthful and fun, written without a care in the world. For us it proved that David Holmes was still capable of majesty.Ģ0. Seriously – Danny Boyle picked it as the soundtrack for a key moment in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. DAVID HOLMES – I HEARD WONDERS (2008, on ‘I Heard Wonders’)įor many, it conjures up images of David Beckham riding a speedboat on The Thames. So good, it has an entire building named after it in Belfast.Ģ1.

There’s an argument that most of ‘1977’ should feature here, but ‘Oh Yeah’ is a standout, for its sheer optimism.

We’re so grateful they lived in their own unique world.

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They grew up in Derry during the late 70s, yet opened their second album with ‘More Songs About Chocolate and Girls’ before releasing this, a single referencing Subbuteo and sheep skin jackets. THE UNDERTONES – MY PERFECT COUSIN (1980, on ‘Hypnotised’) THE FOUR OF US – MARY (1989, on ‘Songs for the Tempted’)Ī ridiculously simple song, perfectly crafted and presented. Spiky and aggressive, it was still only a hint of what was to come with the game-changing debut album ‘Inflammable Material’ – a centrepiece not just for the band, but for an entire scene.Ģ4. Unperturbed by overkill, the anthemic choral hooks and supercharged production values deliver a thrilling spectacle, even if the band are yet to realise their inflated ambitions.What a way to launch yourself onto the world, with an explosive debut single. At their most outrageous, the theatrical, machine gun fire shredding demonstrations on ‘Tripolasaur’ and ‘The Terrors’ more than satisfy a convincing mission statement.

As it hurtles uncontrollably down the tracks, the album is an accelerating freight train of insatiable guitar hero pageantry that rarely slows to catch its breath. Whether or not these expectations are realistic, the band seem determined to believe in the hype. Hoping to catch up with the frontrunners, ‘SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound’ sets its sights on something larger by dressing up fuzzy, high-intensity pop songs into ambitious prospects of sold-out stadium performances. Bringing up the rear from their feverish Australian counterparts, the way for hypersonic, psychedelia-soaked garage rock has long been paved by a growing list of benchmark guitar outfits, with fanatical cult favourites, Pond and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard still reaching new legions of fans just as rapidly as they manage to churn out records. Just as their name might suggest, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are, for the most part, a pretty ‘out there’ sort of band.