Rich Gilligan
A new song from the upcoming Villagers album The Art Of Pretending To Swim has been released.
The video for Fool was directed by Bob Gallagher, who took his inspiration from the lyric, ‘So here is my bleeding heart. Will you take the pain away?’. “The video is a surreal take on a marriage proposal, which is the ultimate gambit in love,” he says.
“The scenario pushes how much Conor’s character is willing to overlook his partner’s shortcomings, and convince himself that everything is fine. You could call it foolishness but you could also consider it a kind of optimism, striving to see the best in a situation.”
Conor O’Brien will take the album out on tour after its release on September 21st.
Tour dates:
October
17 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
18 – Art School, Glasgow
19 – Gorilla, Manchester
21 – Wardrobe, Leeds
22 – O2 Academy 2, Oxford
23 – Hackney Arts Centre, London
25 – Arts Club, Liverpool
27 – Metropolis Festival, RDS, Dublin
30 – Trinity, Bristol
31 – Old Market, Brighton
November
1 – La Madeleine, Brussels
3 – Zoom, Frankfurt
5 – Vega, Copenhagen
6 – Gruenspan, Hamburg
8 – Kesselhaus, Berlin
9 – Hybrydy, Warsaw
10 – Futurum, Prague
12 – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
13 – Melkweg (Old Hall), Amsterdam
14 – Trabendo, Paris
16 – Le Boucau, Biarritz
18 – Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao
19 – Chango, Madrid
20 – Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona
22 – Ridotto Teatro Regio, Parma
23 – Spazio 211, Turin
24 – Port-Franc, Sion
26 – Papiersaal, Zurich
27 – Kulturkirche, Cologne
28 – Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht