Cian Ducrot: Cork's rising star is ready to take the next step
Cian Ducrot plays Cyprus Avenue, and the Other Voices event in UCC.
The video for Cian Ducrot’s hit single All For You is a parade of heartache. Shot in the northside of his native Cork, it features ordinary members of the public gathered in a bar. They talk, they cry, they hug while Ducrot’s gut-wrenching song – think a balladeering Ed Sheeran meets a Celtic Adele – rises on spirals of melancholy. All the assembled individuals have one thing in common: each has lost someone dear to them.
“I wanted it to be real,” says Ducrot (25), taking some time off after recently playing his first sell-out show in London, at the 600-capacity Lafayette in King’s Cross. “They had all recently gone through loss in their life. These were real stories, real emotions being put on the screen. It was an honest, raw video.”
