Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre

Sat 20^th August:

Gates open: 7 pm

Showtime: 8 pm

Ticket price: €35 plus booking fee

Bar facilities available on site

Irish indie-folk band Villagers are making a welcome return to Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre in 2022, following the release of their fifth studio album Fever Dreams last year. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records – it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere.

Written over the course of two years, the main bodies of the songs were recorded in a series of full-band studio sessions in late 2019 and early 2020. During the long, slow pandemic days, frontman Conor O’Brien refined them in his tiny home studio in Dublin, and the album was then mixed by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The xx, FKA Twigs).