Conor O’Brien, Villagers (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Villagers leader Conor O’Brien has revisited and re-recorded selected tracks from the band’s past three studio albums on ‘Where Have You Been All My Life?’, which will be released on January 8th 2016.
The LP was recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with Richard Woodcraft and Villagers’ live engineer Ber Quinn. Its tracklist is as follows:
‘Set The Tigers Free’
‘Everything I Am Is Yours’
‘My Lighthouse’
‘Courage’
‘That Day’
‘The Soul Serene’
‘Memoir’
‘Hot Scary Summer’
‘The Waves’
‘Darling Arithmetic’
‘So Naive’
‘Wichita Lineman’
Meanwhile, UK and Irish tour dates have been unveiled for the start of next year, leading into more live shows on mainland Europe. Those details are:
JANUARY 2016
Belfast Out To Lunch Festival – The MAC Theatre (26)
Dublin – Vicar Street (28)
Galway – Black Box (29)
Cork – Savoy (30)
FEBRUARY 2016
Gateshead Sage 2 (1)
Glasgow Oran Mor Auditorium (2)
Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (3)
Manchester Gorilla (5)
Sheffield Leadmill (6)
Birmingham, Glee Club (7)
Oxford Academy 2 (8)
Bath Komedia (10)
London, Shepherds Bush Empire (11)
Brighton, St Georges Church (12)
Ashford, St Mary’s Church (13)