Villagers - "I painted lots of people's houses"

On Villagers' excellent new record That Golden Time, Conor O'Brien returns to lone intimacy. Conor chats painting houses in Dublin, tragicomedy and finding new life in physical excercise.

Photo: Andrew Whitton

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