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ÌýJimi Goodwin (Doves)
Paul McClean - ATL Producer

The glorious thing about Doves is not just that they make the best British indie/rock music since the Beatles, although that is a fact. Their euphoric everyday anthems manage to avoid a well cliché-trodden path - not jarhead lad-rock, not art school pseuds and with a twitchy nod to rave culture and its inevitable Wednesday comedown. Doves also look…well, normal. You will never catch Jimi, (or Jez or Andy for that matter) having his jeans taken in or wearing shoes that Albus Dumbledore would sport at a Hogwarts formal. They look like us, their music talks to us and Jimi looks like the last thing on his mind is how 'hot' he looks right now. Its all about the music.Ìý

Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Amy McGarrigle - ATL Content Assistant

Q Magazine summed it up with a poster they published a good few years back - it had a photoshopped picture of Thom Yorke holding a sign saying, "take the red out of my face, make my eyes the same, with a healthy glow, spotless, heroic, smaller ears, hollywood checkbones". Yorke certainly isn't your average rockstar. He has the stance of a bullied boy, shielding himself from the big bad world. But in truth, Yorke rips up the stereotypical rockstar image proving to be one of the most powerful performers of the 90's and beyond.

With his distinctive lazy eye,Ìýhis on stage presence comes across asÌýslightly unhinged and wholly passionate and believable. AndÌýwell, his voice and the tunes are pretty amazing too like....Ìý

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Bob Pollard (Guided by Voices)
Steven Rainey - ATL Buddy and Radio Ulster DJ
Who would have thought that this school teacher from Dayton, Ohio would go on to become the most prolific songwriter of the 20th century (and already showing excellent form in the 21st century)?

After ploughing his money into the band he and his friends formed, Pollard was at the point of calling it quits when he discovered that an obscure record called Propeller (each copy of which came with a handmade cover from Pollard) had fallen into the hands of some New York tastemakers. The 'band' was invited to play some shows, and before too long, they had become the darlings of the indie-rock scene, pioneering the lo-fi recording techniques, and recording more classic songs than you've had hot dinners.

Guided by Voices are no more, but he's still churning out albums by the dozen, some of them good, and some of them bad. Thank the Gods of Rock that he decided to jack in the teaching career.