Villagers Team Up With Charlotte Gainsbourg for Record Store Day Release
Friday, 15 April 2011
Written by Rob Sleigh
Villagers have teamed up with Anglo-French actress and singer-songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg for a split 7” single in support of tomorrow’s Record Store Day (16th April). The record will feature the track ‘Set the Tigers Free’, taken from Villagers’ 2010 debut album ‘Becoming a Jackal’, as well as a new song called ‘Memoirs’. Both tracks can be heard here.
The idea for the record came about when Charlotte approached Villagers’ Conor O’Brien last year, asking him to compose a song for her. The result was ‘Memoirs’, which the pair recorded together at Studio Ferber in Paris. In addition to its special release for Record Store Day, which features cover art by Conor O’Brien, the track will be included on Charlotte’s forthcoming album ‘Live and Unreleased’.
Villagers will tour the UK in May at the following venues:
9th - Preston 53 Degrees
10th - Newcastle Riverside
17th - Birmingham Glee Club
18th - Bristol Trinity
19th - Colchester Arts Centre
21st - London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
22nd - Oxford O2 Academy 2
23rd - Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
24th - Manchester Sound Control
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