Villagers play Galway next week

Watch the new single ‘Summer Song’

Villagers are pleased to share a brand new single, “Summer’s Song”.

Featuring a chorus of six flugelhorns, “Summer’s Song” was written and produced by Conor O’Brien and mixed by the legendary Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, Flaming Lips, MGMT). 

In Conor’s words: “Summer’s Song is the closest I’ll ever get to writing a pure pop song. I just had to roll with it and I’m glad I did; it was really just an excuse to make the horns sound like sunbeams. Boy it’s fun to play live. I can’t quite believe we managed to get the magical touch of Dave Fridmann in on the mix”.

The video – animated by Joe May and illustrated by Patricio Bauzá – is equally drenched with memories of summers past and anticipation of those to come.

Fresh from supporting Mumford & Sons on their recent UK arena tour, Villagers will be playing shows throughout the summer including a sold-out gig at Dublin’s glorious Iveagh Gardens (his biggest ever headline – 4000 cap).  A European tour including Paradiso, Amsterdam and the Rolling Stone Weekenders in Germany have also been announced for November.

LIVE DATES

Fri 12^th July – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin (sold-out)

Thurs 18^th July – Galway Arts Festival, Galway with John Grant

Fri 19^th July – Cyprus Avenue, Cork

Sat 20^th July – Ballykeeffee Amphitheatre, Kilkenny

Fri 2^nd Aug – Festival N2, Chaves, Portugal

Wed 7^th Aug – Moods Festival, Bruges, Belgium

Thurs 15^th Aug – Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh

Fri 16^th Aug – Green Man Festival, Abergavenny, Wales

Fri 23^rd Aug – Open House Festival, Bangor

Fri 30^th Aug – Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, Netherlands

Sat 31^st Aug – Bruis Festival, Maastricht

Sun 1^st Sept – Golden Leaves Festival, Darmstadt, Germany

Thurs 7th Nov – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fri 8^th Nov – LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sat 9^th Nov – Rolling Stone Park Festival, Rust, Germany

Mon 11^th Nov – Zakk, Dusseldorf, Germany

Tues 12^th Nov – Strom, Munich, Germany

Wed 13^th Nov – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany

Sat 16^th Nov – Rolling Stone Beach, Weissenhauser Strand, Germany

Sun 17^th Nov – Burgerweehuis, Deventer, Netherlands

Mon 18^th Nov – Het Depot, Leuven, Belgium

 Villagers released their acclaimed fourth album The Art Of Pretending To Swim last year and O’Brien has a string of accolades under his belt including two Ivor Novello Awards, two Mercury Music Prize nominations and is a previous winner of Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.

Additionally, Villagers’ music has featured in both seasons of HBO drama ‘Big Little Lies’ – reaching the Top 60 Shazam charts in the UK and US last month – and their Spotify session of “Nothing Arrived” has hit over 130 million streams.