I put off listening to Irish rockers Villagers simply because of my hectic lists of songs/albums to listen to, and artists to check out. Sadly plenty of stuff I would love to check out happens to get lost in the shuffle. However Niall Byrne the excellent music blogger who runs the exceptional Irish music blog Nialler9, tweeted (twice) about Villagers, fully catching my attention. His post about the Villagers live performance of their song “Becoming A Jackel” on Jools Holland lead to me finally understanding why Villagers was starting to build a solid reputation.
Here is why:
I am going to do a full in-depth post on Villagers soon, because these guys need to be recognized. If you are not sold by the live video posted above, you are probably reading the wrong music blog.
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