Villagers

Saturday 7th Dec 2024

location_city Queens Students Union [Mandela Hall/ Bunatee], Belfast

Villagers

Dublin-based acoustic-rock band formed from the ashes of The Immediate.

Key members include founder member Conor J. O'Brien as well as Tommy McLaughlin, James Byrne, Danny Snow and Cormac Curran.

They issued their debut album "The Jackal Rises" in 2010 which won them an Ivor Novello award for the title track and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, as was 2013 follow-up "{Awayland}". This was followed by "Darling Arithmetic" (2015), "Where Have You Been All My Life?" (2016) and 2018's: "The Art of Pretending to Swim".