Villagers

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Villagers
Singer Conor J. O'Brien at the Haldern Pop Festival 2013
Singer Conor J. O'Brien at the Haldern Pop Festival 2013
General information
Genre (s) Indie folk
founding 2008
Website wearevillagers.com
Founding members
Conor J. O'Brien
Current occupation
Conor J. O'Brien
Tommy McLaughlin
James Byrne
Gwion Llewelyn
Mali Llewelyn
Danny Snow
Cormac Curran
former members
Richie Egan
David Crean
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Becoming a Jackal
  UK 66 06/05/2010 (2 weeks)
  IE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/20/2010 (77 weeks)
Live at the Workman's Club Dublin
  IE 57 04/21/2011 (1 week)
{Awayland}
  DE 53 01/25/2013 (1 week)
  AT 66 01/25/2013 (1 week)
  CH 82 01/27/2013 (1 week)
  UK 16 01/26/2013 (2 weeks)
  IE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/17/2013 (37 weeks)
Darling Arithmetic
  DE 74 04/24/2015 (1 week)
  UK 27 04/25/2015 (2 weeks)
  IE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/17/2015 (23 weeks)
Where Have You Been All My Life?
  IE 13 January 15, 2016 (9 weeks)
The Art of Pretending to Swim
  DE 55 09/28/2018 (1 week)
  AT 64 05.10.2018 (1 week)
  CH 48 09/30/2018 (1 week)
  UK 28 04.10.2018 (1 week)
  IE 2 09/28/2018 (7 weeks)

The Villagers are an Irish band led by singer-songwriter Conor J. O'Brien.

Emergence

O'Brien formed the band in 2008 after his previous project The Immediate split in spring 2007. The Immediate were considered an Irish hope, their 2006 debut album In Towers and Clouds , which was described as "one of the best Irish debut albums of the last twenty years", received a nomination for the Choice Music Prize , the band also joined the Meteor Ireland Music Awards . Nevertheless, the members announced their separation in May 2007 and justified this with "fundamental differences". O'Brien later said the band no longer fit into the life plans of two of its members. He himself began playing guitar in Cathy Davey's live band shortly after the breakup .

In February 2008, O'Brien released the EP Hollow Kind under the name Villagers with four tracks that he had recorded alone. He then put a band together that did a number of live performances in the second half of the year.

In April 2011, the live album Live at the Workmans Club was released in the UK and a split EP with Charlotte Gainsbourg was released at the same time as Set the Tigers Free / Memoir in the USA .

Discography

Albums and EPs

  • 2009: Hollow Kind (EP) (CD, Any Other City)
  • 2010: Becoming a Jackal (CD / LP / Download, Domino Records )
  • 2011: Live at the Workmans Club (LP, Domino UK)
  • 2011: Set the Tigers Free / Memoir (Split-7 "with Charlotte Gainsbourg , Domino USA)
  • 2013: {Awayland} (CD, LP, download; Domino Records)
  • 2015: Darling Arithmetic (CD, LP, download; Domino Records / GoodToGo)
  • 2016: Where Have You Been All My Life?
  • 2018: The Art of Pretending to Swim (CD, LP, download; Domino Records)

Singles

  • 2009: On a Sunlit Stage (7 ", Domino)
  • 2010: Becoming a Jackal (7 "/ Download, Domino)
  • 2010: Ship of Promises (CD / 7 "/ Download, Domino)
  • 2010: That Day (Download, Domino)
  • 2014: Occupy Your Mind (7 ", Domino)
  • 2015: Courage (Domino)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: IE DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ a b Nialler9: Interview: Villagers Published on February 6, 2009. Accessed May 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ Villagers: RECORD STORE DAY - 16 APRIL 2011 ( Memento from 11 September 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Published on 16 April 2010.

Web links

Commons : Villagers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files