The latest act to pick the songs that soundtrack their Manchester City support are psychedelic adventurers Air Cav, who are shortly set to release their debut album Don’t Look Indoors. Singer and guitarist Chris Nield (pictured above) is the big City fan in the band, and he’s put together today’s playlist, whcih takes a slightly different approach to some of our previous Sounds Of The City collections. We’ll let Chris explain more…

‘Coming from a slightly different angle I’ve picked a selection of songs that, although not all directly related with City, invoke the same emotions in me as watching the Blues has over the years.

It’s easy to pick an Oasis song and have done with it, but to me football and music contain the same emotive elements. There are peaks and troughs, tempo, rhythm and crescendos. It can be breathless and also the most gut-wrenchingly torrid few moments of your life. Either way, you know you’re hooked and will be back for more.

Stop Your Crying – Spiritualized

If you’ve been supporting the Blues for longer than ten years you will be familiar with the agony of relegation. I’ve been watching them since ’92 and lost count of how many times I’ve stood there on the final game of the season, unable to come to terms with the decline of my team, tears streaming. ‘Stop Your Crying’ by Spiritualized takes the hopeless and gradually builds it up into a towering orchestral crescendo from which there is light. Something all us Blues had to do in the darkest days of the late nineties.

She Sells Sanctuary – The Cure

Bit of a guilty pleasure next. I’ve got a playlist on my iTunes of music that I think would sound great as football entrance music and although ‘Right Here Right Now’ does an OK job at the Etihad Stadium on match days, a song that always leaps out at me as being brilliant ‘football music’ is ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ by The Cult. I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t be whipped into a frenzy hearing this blast out before a game! Of course, guitarist Billy Duffy is a huge Blue, too!

Three Little Birds – Bob Marley

Now, clearly that we have some of the best and creative supporters in the land when it comes to thinking up new chants and my absolute favourite at the moment has to be ‘City don’t worry’ to the tune of Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’. Sung mostly at away games, particularly if we concede a goal, it’s such a brilliant way of shrugging it off and getting behind the lads. I would love to see a full South Stand belting this out, of course without us having conceded a goal!

Lovely Allen – Holy F**K

And finally, if ever a piece of music perfectly echoed the elation of celebrating a City goal, it’s ‘Lovely Allen’ by Canadian electro-hotshots Holy F**k. You can almost picture a Balotelli screamer bulging the net in slow-motion with this playing underneath. Powerful stuff!’

Some great tunes from Chris, thanks for putting the playlist together! For more info on Air Cav, you can follow them on Twitter or head over to their website. You can also get a sneak peak of their album with the video teaser below: