Name: The Cords, Live in Leeds
Start: 2026-03-05T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Lending Room

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The Cords
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05.03.2026 | £13.00 ADVANCE (stbf) | Doors 19:30
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The Cords are the brightest new pop band in Scotland. Sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi started playing drums when they were little kids. They found that they liked 80s and 90s indie music more than their peers, and so formed a band, just the two of them, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar – and the songs started to flow.
Eva and Grace honed their skills by playing a whole series of gigs with some of the biggest names in Scottish pop. Their first show was with The Vaselines, and since then they have played with Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, The BMX Bandits and others, while also sharing stages with the new generation of indiepop stars: the Umbrellas, Chime School, Lightheaded. Their debut album on Skep Wax Records hit the charts, and 2026 sees them playing their own headline shows as well as touring with Heavenly and The Charlatans.
Like all great pop bands, The Cords have taken familiar ingredients and created something utterly fresh. Older indie fans will hear echoes of The Shop Assistants, The Primitives and Talulah Gosh, but they will hear something else too: a yearning, dreamy melodic power that takes the songs into darker, stranger places. Younger pop fans won’t care about these old reference points: what they will hear is the sound of two young women doing something utterly exciting: playing loud guitar and loud drums, taking analogue instruments and hitting them hard in the service of a set of immediate and infectious pop tunes, and not giving a second thought about the digital world that is supposed to control everything they do. The Cords sound free: they remind us that pop music, played right, is expressive, liberating, joyful and deeply personal.