Villagers Announce New Single, ‘The Bell’, Post Video

Villagers might be out on tour across the UK currently - they perform at Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms tonight (18th February) before heading back to Ireland for some dates via London’s Village Underground - but they’ve still found time to announce details of another single from recent album, ”.

‘The Bell’ is the next song to be taken from the band’s January-released second record, and will be released on 8th April, once again via Domino.

A video for the song has been shared online today to coincide with the announcement, featuring both live performance footage of the band filmed in Donegal with Sebastien Escalante, and animation. It was directed by Alden Volney.



Villagers’ forthcoming live dates are:

FEBRUARY
18 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
20 London Village Underground
21 London Village Underground

MARCH
14 Galway Seapoint
15 Limerick Dolans
16 Belfast Empire Music Hall
18 Killarney Inec Acoustic Club
19 Cork Savoy
21 Dublin Olympia Theatre

MAY
21 London Electric

Read our interview with Villagers’ Conor J. O’Brien in which he talks all about the making of ”, as featured in the February 2013 issue of DIY.