VILLAGERS will perform at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds this month to promote their third album Darling Arithmetic.

Darling Arithmetic is the follow-up to Becoming A Jackal and Awayland which were both critically-acclaimed and Mercury-nominated.

The latest album is described as a breathtakingly beautiful, intimate collection of songs about love and relationships.

Darling Arithmetic was written, recorded, produced and mixed by Conor O’Brien at home, the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide to the north of Dublin.

A spokesman said: “This reveals a single-minded artist at the peak of his already considerable songwriting powers.

“The album encompasses the various shades of feeling – desire, obsession, lust, loneliness and confusion – and deeper into philosophical and existential territory, across a cast of lovers, friends, family and even strangers.

“Backing up his supple and emoting vocal and guitar is the subtlest palate of instrumentation – piano, Mellotron and brushes.

“O’Brien plays every instrument on these exquisite, melodic songs in a sparse, spacious, acoustic-leaning fashion.”

Coming up at the City Varieties on Sunday is the 22nd annual tour of Feast Of Fiddles featuring musicians from Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Battlefield Band and Show Of Hands.

Graham Parker, best remembered for his late 1970s soulful rock output with The Rumour, performs with Brinsley Schwarz, on April 17.

The Searchers will perform classic hits like Sweets For My Sweet, Needles And Pins, Sugar And Spice, and When You Walk In The Room, on April 24.

Also coming up are folk queen Kate Rusby (April 26) and Ireland’s newest singing superstars The Kilkennys (April 29).

Visit cityvarieties.co.uk or call 0113 2430808 to book tickets.