In Photos: @ The Park Presents... Villagers + Beach House @ Marlay Park, Dublin (23.07.11)

Clearly firm believers in giving the people what they want, Villagers continue to tour the hind legs off their critically-lauded Becoming A Jackal LP. The weekend before last, the band had a date under canvas in The Wicklow Mountains as part of MCD's new @ The Park concert series. The fact that everyone's favourite dream pop duo, Beach House, were second on the bill reflects just how far Conor O'Brien and co. have come since that debut first surfaced a little over a year ago - a journey that's been helped in no small part by a clutch of award nominations and levels of radio play most bands spend half a career working towards.

Saturday evening saw the local lads deliver a typically assured set in front of an adoring audience; they even broke out several brand new tracks, which seemed to slot in very nicely alongside now-old favourites like 'Twenty Seven Strangers' and 'The Meaning of The Ritual'. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally weren't half-bad either, according to our photographer Mark Earley (the pair "love playing Dublin" apparently). Click below to view a slideshow of Mark's shots from inside the big top.