– Two Door Cinema Club – Live at Pinkpop Festival – June 13, 2011 – VPRO-Netherlands
Two Door Cinema Club to get Monday up and rolling.
Two Door Cinema Club formed in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland in 2007. The band is composed of three members: Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats, synths), Sam Halliday (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Kevin Baird (bass, synths, backing vocals).
The band’s debut album, Tourist History, was released on 1 March 2010 by French independent record label Kitsuné Music. In the United States, where the band are signed to Glassnote Records, the album was released on 27 April 2010. Tourist History was selected for the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year (2010) the following year.
The band’s second album, Beacon, was released on 3 September 2012, debuted at number one on the Irish Albums Chart and reached number two in the UK Albums Chart.
On 8 August 2013, the band announced that a new EP entitled Changing of the Seasons was to be released. Along with the news came a 30-second clip of the title track, which was set for release on 20 August and is the first single taken from the EP. On 15 August, BBC Radio 1 premiered the single. In an interview with the BBC on 18 July 2013, Trimble stated that the band had started work on its third studio album. He also mentioned that the band was aiming to release the album by early 2015. Trimble also announced that the band had left Kitsuné and signed with former EMI subsidiary Parlophone Records.
In July 2012, Trimble participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, singing “Caliban’s Dream”, a song written by Underworld’s Rick Smith. Trimble revealed in an interview that filmmaker Danny Boyle, who had been commissioned as the event’s “ceremony chief”, had selected the singer for the role to sing at the ceremony.[citation needed]
Alex Trimble has also worked with Anteros on the making of their debut album as the second producer.
In December 2023, Trimble co-wrote Ariel Pink’s song “Rudolph’s Laptop”, about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, with Pink and ex-Mumford & Sons guitarist/banjoist Winston Marshall.
For a taste of what Two Door Cinema Club were up to in 2011 – press Play and dive into Pinkpop 2011.
Buckle up for the week.
