ARTIST PROFILE
Tom Harley-Eustace
London, UK
band: The Cardinal Sins
STICK SIZE: 5Br
Formed in 2012 the already established London-based power trio Jay Vee & The Cardinal Sins deliver an eclectic sound comprising garage-punk, rockabilly, and rock n’ roll influences. Screaming, jerking, and sweating their way through high-octane live sets, the ‘Sins’ have played their way through many venues up and down the UK. The band is currently working on new material and aims to release a new EP/Album in 2022.
RED LIGHT ACID TEST is a London-based 4-piece Alternative rock band that formed in 2018 with Tom joining the fray as an integral member of the band from the start. Embracing a dark, tarnished vision, the four-piece sharpened their sound by gigging around the capital’s backroom bars. Merging grunge’s spit & fury and post punk’s angular riffs, RLAT creates a noisy blast of brooding intensity.
Throughout 2020 the band released their first 3 singles recorded with the Mercury Prize-nominated producer Ian Davenport (Band of Skulls, Gaz Coombes, Slowdive) in his Oxford-based studio. The tracks were an immediate hit with the radio and press, generating positive reviews and strong airplay on radio stations throughout the UK and Ireland. In the summer of 2021, the band returned to Courtyard Studios and again worked on 3 new tracks with producer Ian Davenport; these new singles will be released throughout 2022.
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