Colorado folk-rock band The Lumineers brought Cardiff Castle to life on Friday night with a high-powered performance packed with guitar-driven ballads. Promoting their most recent album, BRIGHTSIDE, which dropped in early 2022, the tour marks the band's first time back on the road since the Covid-19 outbreak. In March 2020 the pandemic forced them to postpone and cancel a number of gigs promoting their third studio album, aptly named III.
But under the open sky at Cardiff Castle - their biggest Welsh gig to date - the Lumineers gave no indication there had been a long hiatus. For more stories like this subscribe to the WalesOnline What's On newsletter here.
Vocalist and guitarist Wesley Schultz launched into the title track BRIGHTSIDE to thousands of screaming fans, followed by chart-topping hit Cleopatra from their second album of the same name. Not holding back their crowd favourites for late in the set, they burst into Ho, Hey, the 2011 song that shot the original two-piece group from Denver into stardom. It's risky business to front-load a set with the hits but The Lumineers did just that - and it didn't fail them.
