TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
On the campaign trail for new album ‘False Alarm’, we join Two Door Cinema Club as they traverse the UK for a series of sweaty club show stop-offs (and an altogether larger Glastonbury crowning)... Words: Lisa Wright. Photos: Jenn Five.
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TWO DOOR ON TOUR!
t’s 7:59pm in the normally ropey surrounds of Kingston’s Pryzm nightclub - a place of carpeted floors and varying colours of WKD, and a gaggle of early teens are getting twitchy. The clock ticks over to eight and, without missing a beat, the excitable chants begin; a few moments later, three men clad in turtlenecks and primary colours step out to a stage kitted with painted red microphones and a cobalt blue backdrop to a roar of cheers. This kind of pandemonium and these boyband-level squeals of enthusiasm have greeted Two Door Cinema
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Club regularly throughout their career; since first emerging nearly a decade ago, the trio have always maintained a consistently strong live following, their success built on graft, frequent trips in the tourbus and grassroots fandom. But, since those early days as “little kids with our hoods up, just staring at the ground,” recalls singer Alex Trimble, much has changed. They’ve very nearly broken up, come back from the edge and, now, pushed forward with a record in their newest ‘False Alarm’ that’s built in a far more stylised, idiosyncratic world than anything their first album fans might have come to expect.
