THE NATIONAL in Cardiff: family-friendly Americans rock past bedtime
The National, whose career spans over 25 years and 10 studio albums, are visiting Cardiff, and the atmosphere in the Welsh capital is festival-like from the start.
The National, whose career spans over 25 years and 10 studio albums, are visiting Cardiff, and the atmosphere in the Welsh capital is festival-like from the start.
Ohio quintet The National’s rise to stardom is an ongoing, 25-year project, and if you’re unlikely to find long-lens pap shots of the members in Heat, seeing them onstage in front of 10,000 people in Cardiff should say everything it needs to.
The National's latest album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which features emotional tracks with Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers, deals with how the band overcame writer's block and depression to create this masterful work of art.
Future versions of Cyrano are unlikely to have a soundtrack as seductive and slick as what The National’s Dessner brothers have created.
THE NATIONAL | LIVE REVIEW Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Mon 9 Dec When telling folk I was off to see The National, I found I couldn’t pinpoint a tune by the Cincinnati …
THE NATIONAL This Ohio band’s 20-year career has seen them rise from a cult indie concern into an arena-filling one, and that’s where you’ll find them in Cardiff this December. …