Cardinals Tickets

Cardinals, the five-piece hailing from Kinsale, have been crowned "the next great guitar band to emerge from Ireland" by Rolling Stone UK and have also won high praise from NME and Stereogum.

Having spent 2025 in excellent company, supporting Fontaines D.C in Finsbury Park, London, Wunderhorse at Wider Than Pictures, Dublin, The Pogues in the US, their own headline US tour, NewDad’s UK / Irish Tour as well as headlining their own European tour, one could say they’ve cut their teeth in all the right places, before even releasing their debut album.

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 shackles of their early influences to craft something entirely their own.

It’s clear that 'Masquerade' marks a new era for Cardinals. The making of the album has revealed something new of themselves, opening them up as a more collaborative entity - as evidenced by closing track As I Breathe, written just one week before they entered the studio. While much of the record’s lyrical content deals with the trials and complexities of navigating life, the album ends on a tentatively hopeful note with the striking line “Even as we fall / I have learned the world is small / And I proceed.”