Lightning Seeds Frontman Ian Broudie is part of the fabric of British pop culture. Born in the Fifties, child of the Sixties, crucial player in Liverpool punk in the Seventies, alternative rock production genius in the Eighties, pop star in the Nineties and Godfather figure to some of Liverpool’s new leading lights of the Noughties.

He was the studio magician behind the legendary Echo And The Bunnymen and has lately sprinkled stardust over The Coral and Zutons. And mingling in the midst of all of this music and creativity came The Lightning Seeds, with a string of classic hit singles, and a little football song (‘Three Lions’) still bellowed out from the terraces at England matches.

Now Broudie is back with ‘Four Winds’, the first crop of Lightning Seeds songs in 10 years. “It is not like I have ever been away, really,” he explains. “I’ve been a part of music all my life, and that never stops. These are just the songs that represent where I am on this journey.”

As he relates his strange passage through a world of sound in a gushing torrent of words, you start to understand how this effusive character could have been a conduit for so much great music.

Lightning Seeds will perform acoustically at Cois Fharraige this year and are an act not to be missed.