Villagers
Q Live At Concrete
February 16, 2011
On Wednesday February 16, Conor J O'Brien from Irish folk-pop outfit Villagers performed a spellbinding stripped-down acoustic show featuring tracks from his critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Becoming A Jackal. Photos: Q Live At Concrete - Villagers SETLIST: -...
Gig Review
On Wednesday February 16, Conor J O'Brien from Irish folk-pop outfit Villagers performed a spellbinding stripped-down acoustic show featuring tracks from his critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Becoming A Jackal.
Photos: Q Live At Concrete - Villagers
SETLIST:
- The Meaning Of The Ritual
- To Be Counted
- New Found Land
- Set The Tigers Free
- Grateful Song
- Twenty Seven Strangers
- Ship Of Promises
- Memoir
- Becoming A Jackal
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The Pact - I'll Be Your Fever
Pieces
Home
Cecelia
On A Sunlit Stage
A full review of the show will appear in Q Magazine issue Q298, out late March 2011.
Fan Review
Our lucky competition winner won the opportunity to review the gig and interview the band. See below to see what they thought:
There was no big ensemble for Villagers at Concrete; Conor O’Brien took to the stage with Cormac Curran on keyboard and the understated confidence of an accomplished songwriter with a set-list of Mercury Prize nominated songs. From the first moment, the crowd held a steady admiration for O’Brien’s soaring stage presence. Something extraordinary happens when Conor O’Brien sings his songs of pure soul. With his visceral lyrics, he seems to speak to the audience in way that great poets do – he has an exceptional ability to explain the everyday, in all of its cynicism, banality and potential malice, in the most insightful and captivating terms. Newer songs held their own amongst crowd pleasers from the album; the set ending with a particularly poignant encore. The melody bewitches, the lyrics even more so. This intimate gig showed Villagers at their best. - Q competition winner, Gráinne McLoughlin.
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