{"id":8618,"date":"2015-02-09T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:06:43","slug":"villagers-mandela-hall-25th-may-tickets-on-sale-friday-13th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/02\/villagers-mandela-hall-25th-may-tickets-on-sale-friday-13th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers, Mandela Hall 25th May. Tickets on sale Friday 13th February."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the release of the highly anticipated third album, Darling Arithmetic, Villagers have announced a run of dates across Ireland this May, Including Belfast.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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20 May: DUBLIN, Olympia Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n

23 May: CORK, Opera House<\/strong><\/p>\n

24 May:\u00a0LIMERICK, Big Top<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 May: BELFAST, Mandela Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tickets on-sale: Friday 13 February from 9am – from all Ticketmaster outlets and www.Ticketmaster.ie<\/a> <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New album, Darling Arithmetic, released on 13 April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Darling Arithmetic<\/em><\/strong> is the third album from Villagers<\/strong>, released on 13 April 2015. <\/strong>The <\/strong>follow-up to Conor O\u2019Brien<\/strong>\u2019s <\/strong>debut, Becoming a Jackal<\/strong>, and <\/strong>its successor, Awayland –<\/strong> both hugely acclaimed and Mercury-nominated – is a breathtakingly beautiful, intimate album entirely about love and relationships.<\/p>\n

Darling Arithmetic<\/em> was written, recorded, produced and mixed by O\u2019Brien at home – the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide to the north of Dublin – revealing a single-minded artist at the peak of his already considerable songwriting powers. It encompasses the various shades of feeling \u2013 desire, obsession, lust, loneliness and confusion, and deeper into philosophical and existential territory, across a cast of lovers, friends, family and even strangers. Backing up his supple and emoting vocal and guitar is the subtlest palate of instrumentation \u2013 piano, Mellotron (which accounts for the album\u2019s occasional horn and cello tones) and brushes. O\u2019Brien plays every instrument on these exquisite, melodic songs in a sparse, spacious, acoustic-leaning fashion.<\/p>\n

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On Darling Arithmetic<\/em>, O\u2019Brien doesn\u2019t only pare back his use of language but looks deep into his own heart and motives. The opening track and first single, \u2018Courage\u2019<\/strong>, concerns the most important kind of love \u2013 for yourself: \u201cIt took a little time to get where I wanted \/ It took a little time to get free \/ It took a little time to be honest \/ It took a little time to be me.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Now three albums in, Villagers is the front for playfulness and seriousness, mystery and revelation, an open-ended and flexible beast that can be anything its creator wants it to be. By going back to the root of songwriting, O\u2019Brien has reinvented himself.<\/p>\n

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Tickets for Villagers are on sale at 9am this Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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www.wearevillagers.com<\/a> \/ www.facebook.com\/villagers<\/a> \/ www.twitter.com\/wearevillagers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the release of the highly anticipated third album, Darling Arithmetic, Villagers have announced a run of dates across Ireland this May, Including Belfast. 20 May: DUBLIN, Olympia Theatre 23 May: CORK, Opera House 24 May:\u00a0LIMERICK, Big Top 25 May: BELFAST, Mandela Hall Tickets on-sale: Friday 13 February from 9am – from all Ticketmaster … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}