CARDINALS
Arts Club Loft, Liverpool.
14+, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult.
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From a small, dark room on the northside of Cork city - a rehearsal space
that is “very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer” - Cardinals have
emerged with a debut album that appropriately swings from one extreme to
the other. Darkness to light. Light to darkness. Hopefulness to despair.
Compassion to chaotic indifference.
A band forged through both family and friendship - brothers Euan (vocals,
guitar) and Finn (accordion) Manning, their cousin Darragh (drums,
tambourine, glockenspiel) and their former schoolmates Oskar Gudinovic
(guitar) and Aaron Hurley (bass) - the five-piece have already positioned
themselves at the vanguard of the Irish independent rock scene. And with
Masquerade, they have flung off the sh