Live music: Villagers - Everyman, Cork

5/5

Villagers have set themselves a high bar to try and top for best Cork show. A midnight gig at St Luke’s Church last September is perhaps only eclipsed by their Cork Opera House ‘moment’ the night the marriage-equality referendum was passed last May. If one could have bottled the sheer emotions and exuberance of Conor O’Brien that day then we’d never come down.

So no pressure on the singer and friends at the sold-out Everyman Theatre on Sunday night, the first date of a five-week Irish and EU tour.