By Michelle Crean

Killarney town is set to feature in a new satirical music video alongside villages in France as Irish/French duo ‘The Village Vandals’ release their new single.

Their latest single ‘C’est La V’ was released on Wednesday with the video taking in many famous locations including Teddy O’Connors and Muckross Abbey.

Rapper and producer Kevin Donnelly from Ballydribeen makes up one half of the band while his cousin, singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Ruby Mae Shiels, who grew up in Allier, France which also features in the video, came to Ireland to pursue her passion in traditional Irish music.

"This is when we decided to combine our mutual love for music to create the unorthodox group 'The Village Vandals'," Kevin explained to the Killarney Advertiser.

"We are currently based in France but plan to expand our growth in the Irish scene."

In the video he said they felt it necessary to convey the everyday life in Killarney accompanied by some traditional Irish comedy in conjunction with the almost parallel odd life in the bizarre countryside of Bourbonnais France.

"The combination of these two strange worlds is the concoction responsible for the creation of 'The Village Vandals'."

They have also recently completed their debut album 'Vandalism' set to be released later this year.

With two singles from the album already released, the debut single 'Alive' and the follow up 'Illiterate' can both be heard and viewed on YouTube.

"Our newest single 'C’est La V' fuses punk and hiphop and uses these specific styles to discuss the true event stories of adversity in our lives with a satiric twist. The video following in the same comedic theme makes laughable moments out of the otherwise tiresomely irritating situations and displays the true essence of 'The Village Vandals' being the fusion of these two bizarre yet parallel worlds."

Their new single can be viewed on YouTube 'The Village Vandals - C'est La V'.