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Watch: Villagers perform That Golden Time for RTÉ Arena

To celebrate the launch of their new album That Golden Time, Conor O'Brien and his band Villagers performed new songs and favourites live in front of a Studio 1 audience...

RTÉ Arena • 16 May 24

Conor O'Brien records his contribution to In The Echo

Space is the place - Ross Turner on his new concept album

Music • 06 Oct 21

Watch: Villagers perform on The Late Late Show

Conor O'Brien and Villagers returned to The Late Late Show with The First Day, from their forthcoming album Fever Dreams...

Music • 26 Apr 21

Summer's Song - watch the groovy new Villagers video...

Summer's Song is, according to Conor O'Brien, "really just an excuse to make a chorus of six flugelhorns sound like sunbeams".

Music • 17 Jul 19

Watch: Villagers with Strings Atttached

Villagers (aka Conor O'Brien) collaborates with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to bring you specially commissioned arrangements of several Villagers classics.

Music • 13 May 19

Villagers with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Strings Attached

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is starting a brilliant new Bank Holiday tradition on Monday 6 May, with the first of the Strings Attached sessions on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Player.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 07 May 19

Watch: Villagers rock the RTÉ Culture Night celebrations

On the day his latest album was released, Conor O'Brien swung by the RTÉ Culture Night celebrations at the National Museum at Collins Barracks, to treat the audience to Villagers classic Nothing Arrived.

Culture Night • 27 Sep 18

Villagers' Conor O'Brien: "If America wants to break me, it can"

We sat down with Villagers singer Conor O'Brien to discuss his new album, the one-shot wonder that is his latest music video and the possibility of breaking America.

Music • 14 Sep 18

Art Matters: Dan Hegarty celebrates music's Buried Treasures

What constitutes an overlooked or forgotten album? Dan Hegarty (and an all-star line-up of contributors) explores the lost classics once more in his new book, Buried Treasure: Volume 2

Culture • 21 Oct 16

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