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@wearevillagers
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@wearevillagers
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I’m making an album which will need to be listened to as one whole piece of work. I’m really hoping you weirdos still all exist...
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@wearevillagers
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Today is the 10th Anniversary of “Becoming a Jackal” - we’ll be celebrating with a special release later in the year; details coming soon >>> ❤️
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@wearevillagers
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Fever Dreams is unleashed TODAY. Love and thanks to everyone involved; I hope you enjoy x Conor ✨
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@wearevillagers
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4 years
Right, double album it is so
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@wearevillagers
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3 years
So happy to announce the new Villagers album 'Fever Dreams' for release on 20th August and to share the beautiful video for "The First Day" directed by @dhpee . This is ecstatic, euphoric and escapist music and I am excited for you to hear it. ✨
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@wearevillagers
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It feels so good to say that The Art of Pretending to Swim is finally out! You can buy it and listen to it here See you all at the shows xC
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@wearevillagers
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One year ago today this creature was released unto the world. Still pinching myself that I get to do this. x Conor
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@wearevillagers
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I feel like I'm going to explode with excitement >>> today I announce my new album "The Art of Pretending to Swim" / Pre-order HERE:
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@wearevillagers
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2 years
Do people care anymore if your songs segue into each other and create a flowing narrative? Is that even a thing anymore?
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@wearevillagers
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4 years
🥳 Welcome to the 10th anniversary red and gold-coloured vinyl edition of ‘Becoming a Jackal’, including five early home demos and revised artwork, as part of the first Record Store Day 2020 drop on Saturday 29th August 🙏 #RSD20
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@wearevillagers
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4 years
My amazing niece made me an incredible and stylish tote bag which I will be using to purchase groceries with whilst simultaneously self-promoting in 2021
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@wearevillagers
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“I’m not here.... this isn’t haaappening”
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Some lad paddling down the Liffey this morning on his back! 😂😂😂
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@wearevillagers
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Been dreaming of you for years. I’m not sorry. Birthday present for myself #rolandcr78
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@wearevillagers
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3 years
Fever Dreams just went Top 20 in Germany and the UK 😭 Thank you all for buying this weird little album xC
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@wearevillagers
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4 years
Gonna record a lil thing for next week. Name a song you’d like to hear me do a cover of in me gaff x
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@wearevillagers
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Just John Sheahan having a jam with @DeniseChaila @OtherVoicesLive
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@wearevillagers
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New music will arrive like a waterfall of dolphins in 2021
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@wearevillagers
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Writing new album 🤍
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@Tim_Burgess
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Monday July 20th 9pm (U.K. time) @wearevillagers will be joining us for a @LlSTENlNG_PARTY to celebrate 10 years since the release of Becoming A Jackal Come with us
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@wearevillagers
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I am writing quiet songs
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@wearevillagers
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Two years old today: The Art of Pretending to Swim. Virtual hugs to all involved in its creation and exploration. It felt like a beginning; new music is being hatched as you read; watch this space 😉
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@wearevillagers
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We’re making something very special and today it spread its feathers and I can barely contain myself xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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@wearevillagers
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This one is called “Sunrise, Phoenix Park, November 2020”
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@wearevillagers
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When I was a teenager I would obsessively watch and tape @BBCLater and tonight I get to play it again as if living in some outlandish VR dreamscape > tune in to BBC2 from 10pm xC
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@wearevillagers
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Greatest of all time. Thanks for everything Bill x
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@wearevillagers
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Ye Vagabonds live from Whelans in 15 minutes time you say? Yes please
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A series of live musical performances from @OtherVoicesLive begins at 8pm tonight with @yevagabonds on @RTE_Culture . #Courage2020
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@wearevillagers
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The people have spoken; 4 songs have been chosen; see you all next week 💖 (quite overwhelmed by the response here; you’ve made my day x)
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@Tim_Burgess
Tim Burgess
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Monday July 20th 9pm (U.K. time) @wearevillagers will be joining us for a @LlSTENlNG_PARTY to celebrate 10 years since the release of Becoming A Jackal Come with us
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@wearevillagers
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I always wear my angels shirt when I’m singing Angels by Robbie Williams
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@wearevillagers
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Look what just arrived on my doorstep: 10th anniversary edition of Becoming A Jackal (including 5 home demos) on red and gold vinyl for @recordstoreday this Saturday 😃 Find participating stores here:
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@wearevillagers
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Found my weird Junior Cert Art drawings this evening 🤡
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@wearevillagers
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I'm still getting texts from people saying "IS THAT YOUR VOICE WHEN ADAM SCOTT SINGS IN BIG LITTLE LIES??!?" ...so for the record, YES. Yes it is. Video evidence included 😘 @Big_Little_Lies @mradamscott
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@wearevillagers
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So excited to announce that my new album That Golden Time is coming out on @Dominorecordco on 10th May and available to pre-order now.
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@wearevillagers
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I woke up this morning to an unread email which I sent to myself at 5am saying "Fix flugelhorn". My flugelhorn is not broken and I don't remember being awake at 5am #sleepmail
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@wearevillagers
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I am feeling very grateful, thank you everyone.
@irishcharts
Official Irish Charts
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The highest new entry and biggest CD album of the week in Ireland is our very own @wearevillagers , whose new album Fever Dreams lands at Number 2 ✨
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@wearevillagers
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So excited to share a brand new song tonight 😻! 'The First Day' is a paean to human connection. More news tomorrow x Conor ✨
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@wearevillagers
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1) I was not expecting this many requests ❤️ 2) I was not expecting this many requests for “Touch” by Little Mix (suspect)
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@wearevillagers
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Dublin Iveagh Gardens you stole my heart on Friday x (📸 @Ciara606 )
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@wearevillagers
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Magic times at Rough Trade East last night ✨
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@wearevillagers
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One of my new songs has a bass guitar solo and I am very happy about that
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@wearevillagers
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The feeling when weeks of notes all get finally condensed onto one page of lyrics is a very good feeling
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@wearevillagers
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Highlights from Tuesday’s @rubysessions Home show - watch and donate to @SimonCommunity if you can 🙏
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@wearevillagers
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Wash your hands say yeah
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@wearevillagers
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I miss gigs
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@wearevillagers
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Next time you’re flying with @AerLingus I’ll be vacantly staring past you from the pocket in front, beckoning you to read about my new music
@CARAMagazine
CARA Magazine
6 years
Drumroll... we’re delighted to present to you our new cover star, the brilliant Conor O’Brien @wearevillagers . Cracking interview by @TonyClaytonLea & photography by @mrkdggn . Out Aug 1 @AerLingus ✈️☘️🥁
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@wearevillagers
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👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇👀👇
@OtherVoicesLive
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The Other Voices @wearevillagers Special is now available to watch in full, for free on Vimeo! Enjoy the music.
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@wearevillagers
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Big love to @thenational for having us yesterday in Dublin; it was such a thrill to play for you all - it’s so good to be back. Incredible to see @lisahannigan singing with the guys too ...News very soon x
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@wearevillagers
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I was alerted to the magic of Michael Head and the Strands today. I have a feeling this music will be my friend for a good while now.. this is magical stuff ✨ @michaelheadtreb
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@wearevillagers
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I have many memories of teenage parties with this album playing in the background. This is one of the most beautiful dreamy moments: "New Star in the Sky" #NP6Music Floydian goodness... 😌
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@wearevillagers
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Listening to Achtung Baby and it’s re-blowing my mind all over again
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@wearevillagers
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Come on UK! 🤞🙌
@officialcharts
Official Charts
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Fever Dreams by @wearevillagers rounds off the midweek Albums Chart Top 5! Can they hold on to claim their first Top 10 album this Friday?
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@wearevillagers
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Thank you for your song love this week. More soon x Conor (📸 @michaelkellyk )
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@wearevillagers
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🌞 Crazy excited to be sharing a BRAND NEW TRACK with you tonight >>> "Summer's Song" is really just an excuse to make a chorus of six flugelhorns sound like sunbeams >>> Enjoy xo Conor
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@wearevillagers
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I'm obsessed with attempting to realise that so many topics are more complicated than I originally thought and expanding the scope & depth of my opinions as I learn. I think it's what people used to do before the Internet existed. The deeper you go, the less adversarial you feel.
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@wearevillagers
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Saving the first full headphone listen for the morning commute to school; CD Walkman occasionally skipping whilst staring out at Dublin Bay from the packed DART, listening to the future whilst performatively holding a dog-eared copy of Huxley’s Brave New World #kida20 #memories
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Today marks the twentieth anniversary of @Radiohead 's Kid A. Who's feeling old now? Favourite tracks anyone?
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@wearevillagers
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Thank you so much for all your ears this year. New music in the pipeline xConor #SpotifyWrapped
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@wearevillagers
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I wish I was discovering Radiohead for the first time all over again
@Radiohead_info
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all studio recordings are now available on Radiohead's official youtube channel
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@wearevillagers
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New thing soon x
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@wearevillagers
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So happy to announce 'The Sunday Walker EP' - Out NOW digitally with a physical release set for NOVEMBER 22nd. PRE-ORDER HERE:
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@wearevillagers
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Golden times. Becoming A Jackal for @nprmusic Tiny Desk in 2011. #ThrowbackThursday
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@wearevillagers
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That Golden Time is yours now XO Conor
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@wearevillagers
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Finishing touches ✌️✌️✌️
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@wearevillagers
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I am making a piece of sound design and if you would like to be inside the piece please use your phone to record yourself whispering (and/or speaking very quietly) the sentence "The more I know, the more I care" and email the audio to: themoreiknowthemoreicare @gmail .com
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@wearevillagers
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Rehearsal ready for tomorrow night @BBCLater LIVE at 10pm 🤗
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@wearevillagers
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It’s a Fever Dreams #TimsTwitterListeningParty tonight! Hit play from 9pm and join us ✨✨✨
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@wearevillagers
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found where it’s at. This is it. This is where it’s at.
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@wearevillagers
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It was a dream to perform one of the most beautiful songs in the world in an old gym in Utrecht for @theinfluences - enjoy ‘Pyramid Song’ by @radiohead
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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@wearevillagers
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Really touched by this. Thank you Eoghan and thank you to everyone who contributed x
@TPOEblog
The Point Of Everything
4 years
Happy 10-year anniversary to @wearevillagers ' debut album Becoming a Jackal. Here's a long read from artists it inspired, people involved in making it, the fans, promoters and more. Artwork by @JacobStackArt
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@wearevillagers
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Thank you everyone for listening in 2018 ♥️♥️♥️
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@wearevillagers
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I’m gonna be boring and finish my album today instead of covering Bananarama
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Music is a truly spiritual thing
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@wearevillagers
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I got to play and chat about some of my current listening with Cillian Murphy on @BBC6Music recently >>>listen back here (from 32 minutes in):
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@wearevillagers
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VILLAGERS ON THE TELLYBOX! Next Tuesday 16th we will be performing on ‘Later with Jools Holland’ live on BBC2 from 10.00pm @BBCLater
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@wearevillagers
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Happy 1st birthday Fever Dreams ✨🎉✨ Fever dreams take me right back to the start / It’s a part of the healing so I guess that I’ll give it a whirl / Fever dreams take me right back to the start / To the heart of the embryo of pictures of the floating world ✨
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@wearevillagers
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Omg thank you all 😭🌷
@lizageddes
Liza Geddes
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Hearing that Villagers new album Fever Dreams is very close to reaching Number 1 in the Irish Chart this week, so if you're planning on purchasing / streaming / playing on the radio...
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There is so much good new music that I’ve started developing a new strand of anxiety about not having time to listen to all of it /// shit times breed incisive art 💥💥
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@wearevillagers
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TONIGHT 9pm >tune in @therubysessions Facebook, Youtube, Twitter or Instagram. Alongside the magic @wallisbird -the very first At Home Sessions >>>What cover versions do you think I’ve done? 🙌🙌Please consider donating anything you can to @Dublin_Simon 🙌 Stay safe ❤️
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That's it folks. HAVE YOU NO HOMES TO GO TO!?!? GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!
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@wearevillagers
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just sent a note to someone asking them to make a string arrangement sound “like a giant whale moving atonally through the universe”. Very much looking forward to hearing it x
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There is tuba on this album
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@wearevillagers
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6 years
This is going to be monumentally important and everyone should go #Stand4Truth
@Colmogorman
Colm O'Gorman
6 years
A week to go. Will you #Stand4Truth Our gathering is for everyone who wishes to stand in solidarity with those harmed by the actions of the institutional Roman Catholic Church. Who wishes to stand for truth,for justice,for love. For the Ireland we must be.
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Last night in Dublin was one of my favourite shows ever. Thank you everyone for being there and to @Aoife_N_Frances for opening the show so beautifully x @Vicar_Street
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@wearevillagers
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I finally got to sing with international popstar @cmatbaby last night after all these years of kinetic anticipation ♥️ ...what a voice! 😵😵😵
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@wearevillagers
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All hail the new video for 'Fool', the latest song to be taken from 'The Art of Pretending To Swim', directed by the ever-visionary @bobfilmsthings
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@wearevillagers
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Getting into the rhythm w/ @yogawithadriene ✌️
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The Beatles are the best
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@wearevillagers
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Holy god London / we sold out the Roundhouse together / you were a sea of magic souls and I’ll never forget that x o x o x
@TadhgBowe
Tadhg (Tiger) Bowe
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@wearevillagers - ah lads and lady! To all nine of you and crew, that was feckin awesome! Special night for you Conor back at @RoundhouseLDN . The wonder of you. Exactly. 👏💚
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It’s only just begun 😭🎉☀️
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🐣🐣🐥
@officialcharts
Official Charts
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Fever Dreams by Villagers ( @wearevillagers ) was the most popular purchase in independent UK music shops this week, taking it to Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart:
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@wearevillagers
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Last night in The Iveagh Gardens, Dublin ✨ Thank you one and all; a night to remember x (📸 @ruthlessimagery )
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What Spice Girls song should I cover tomorrow?
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Christmas is coming early @OtherVoicesLive ❤️
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@wearevillagers
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Thank you @ATNfestival , thank you Sinéad ❤️ (🎥 @thenextnewlow )
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