Villagers

The Art of Pretending to Swim

The Art of Pretending to Swim

Tuesday 23rd Oct 2018

location_city EartH [Hackney Arts Centre], Stoke Newington

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".