“And I don’t look back on that album or the making of it very fondly… I think we played it far too safe. “We didn’t have time to want to put it together,” he says of 2012’s ‘Beacon’. Two Door Cinema Club is a band from Ireland Wales somewhere in Europe, and they play some solid indie rock that’s littered with electronic elements. Like many musicians who put out a second album quickly, as Alex says so not to “lose the momentum we had”, he has a few regrets about not giving their sound room to breathe and grow.
Frantic guitar riffs and loud drumming push this little punk pop ditty into overdrive. 'Hands Off My Cash Monty' was scrapped from the band's smash album Tourist History, but we are lucky enough to be able stream this nostalgic B-side now. After that they barely stopped, embarking on a relentless record-tour-promote treadmill that propelled them straight back in the studio to record a follow-up. Two Door Cinema Club have surprised their listeners with some demos from their early days. The three childhood friends from Bangor, Northern Ireland were not long out of school when they recorded debut LP ‘Tourist History’. Eminem / Muse / Major Lazer / Bastille / Halsey / Migos / Two Door Cinema Club / Flume / Marshmello / Korn / Grouplove / Charli XCX / Tory Lanez / Russ / Jimmy Eat World / Milky Chance / Kasabian / Glass Animals / HAIM / X Ambassadors / Breaking Benjamin / Fatboy Slim / Anne-Marie / Vince Staples / Phantogram / Oh Wonder. There’s no doubt Two Door’s rise was pretty sharp, with little time to take stock. “That’s just what comes with spending five years locked up in a little box together.” We’d had enough,” frontman Alex admits of their unplanned hiatus. “By the end of the last touring cycle, we just didn’t want to be around each other at all. So where the hell have Two Door Cinema Club been? It’s turning out to be a busy year for a band that hadn’t played live for two years until a few months ago - or released an album for four. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History Y o u r e N o t S t u b b o r n ( ) Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History - Y o u r e N o t S t u b b o r n, Two Door Cinema Club. This summer Two Door Cinema Club will continue their current festival circuit across the States before heading across Europe and then to Asia, playing gigs in Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Japan over the coming months.
Alex Trimble is halfway across the world, locked in a tour bus that’s been driving overnight from Kansas City to Columbus, Ohio.