DIY
are no strangers to bringing out the bangers at festivals, and their performance at this year’s
NOS Alive looks set to be a special one. DIY talks Lisbon, line-ups and the city’s infamous custard
tarts with the band’s Alex Trimble, as they get ready to head to Portugal this summer.
Two Door Cinema Club are set to share the bill with bands like Friendly Fires - who aking place slap bang in
the middle of Lisbon - the
Portuguese capital city, and
the designated utopia when it
comes to all things pastel de
appeal to a great number of people. It’s
the occasion, Two Door Cinema
always been hard, but the bands that put
Club are revving up to take to
the work in and have the talent, I guess,
the stage, and as frontman Alex
can still make it. It’s great to see nothing
Trimble explains, Lisbon is a city
is stopping that happening.”
close to the band’s heart.
Being fans of Lisbon already, the
“We’ve been a few times, and the
festivals there have been amazing.
We’ve played a couple of club shows in Lisbon as well, and the reaction’s so great, every time.”
feels like a milestone moment, Alex agrees.
themselves can still make their way and
their festival shoes ready for
reason I don’t quite know, but the
shared ascent to the very top of NOS’ line-up
that guitar music and bands doing it for
than NOS Alive. Already polishing
could go more,” he says. “For what
label Kitsuné - and Arctic Monkeys. Their
he points out. “It’s very reassuring to know
- festivals don’t get much more summery
been incredible. I wish that we
to Alex and co. with the support of Parisian
“It’s incredible that bands can still do that,”
nata (that’s a custard tart, fyi)
shows over there have always
originally broke through at a similar time
band are hoping to squeeze in a bit of
Wondering how these beauts were dreamt up? You’ve got Catholic monks to thank for them! Back in the 18th century, monasteries would use loads of egg whites to starch clothes, so obviously with all those leftover yolks, custard tarts were the perfect thing for the menu!
sightseeing along the way. Custard tarts are on the menu already, according to
Alex. And though he’s not set on a day-
long group trip to the city’s Sé Cathedral
just yet, the cultural intentions are there. “Festival season’s such a strange time,”
he explains. “You’re constantly on a plane setting down for a few hours and then off somewhere else. It’s exciting, but it can
be tiring sometimes when you don’t get
Spinal Tap, but if you haven’t slept in two
the chance to experience where you are.
days, you just gotta do it.”
more of the time we have in places. Having
What’s more, punters watching Two Door
things to do in Lisbon that might take us an
special surprises amid their endless arsenal
With experience we’re still learning to make the internet at our disposal, and Googling
Cinema Club at NOS Alive can expect a few
hour, we can actually get out and take some
of established bangers, apparently. Two
of it in.”
Door are currently (whisper it) in the studio working on new
Appropriately, considering
material, and Alex is
‘Tourist History,’ the band have
to air some newbies,
from previous European
festival season. “Work
embarrassing thing, which
and we’re in and out of
their debut album is named
chomping at the bit
a few embarrassing stories
fresh off the press, this
festival trips. “I think the most
has really begun now,
happens every now and again -
the studio and playing around with ideas,
putting songs together,” the singer confirms. “If
we don’t get stuff ready [to perform] by then,
then something’s going wrong!”
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- Alex Trimble, Two Door Cinema Club and it goes back to this disorientating life
we live in the summer - is forgetting where we are!” Alex laughs. “Luckily it’s never happened while we’ve been on stage,
but doing interviews, or simply talking to someone, you just have a total mind-
blank, and forget where you are. Never
mind what day of the week it is! It happens fairly frequently, so the embarrassment
dies down every time. You come to accept that it’s just a part of your life now. If it’s been a really long weekend and we’ve
been jumping around, sometimes just to
be safe, we’ll write it down. It sounds like
Fancy checking out the full festival line-up? Simply head to nosalive.com to learn more, and pick up a ticket.