Things got bad, and if we hadn’t taken that break it definitely would have been the end,” begins Alex Trimble. “Kev and I had some really big beef we totally hated each other. When you’re in the same room, and you don’t even talk…” It went from shouting matches to total silence, and that’s even worse. Sitting in a sunny North London pub garden, supping on his second bank holiday Guinness of the afternoon, the frankness and humour with which the Two Door Cinema Club singer deploys these bleak anecdotes of the Bangor band’s still-recent time in the wilderness seems surprising at first. Though they’ve been back in the ring since 2016’s third album ‘Gameshow’, the years preceding that were nothing if not rocky for the trio - completed by guitarist Sam Halliday.
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In 2014, they cancelled their Latitude headline set due to Alex’s deteriorating mental and physical health after that, they took an extended break, from the band and from each other, that could very easily have turned permanent.īut, after a series of tentative steps back into the ring, the trio emerged with a record - one that Alex now retrospectively regards as an album that “took chances out of necessity, because we’d become different people so we had no choice”. #Two door cinema club tour 2019 reddit series And then they braved the potentially even bigger test of getting back in the van and taking it on the road. “Starting to tour was definitely weird every night we’d be wondering if anyone was gonna come.
We’ve been a band for 12 years, and we always had this feeling of not belonging, but it only took a few months after ‘Gameshow’ came out when we thought, you know what: we’re allowed to be here.” Even if we were playing midway up the bill on a festival, we’d be thinking that people were just waiting for whoever’s next,” he says, “but at some point everything just flipped on its head. It’s this confidence and newfound sense of freedom that forms the sparkling backbone of the band’s forthcoming fourth album ‘False Alarm’.
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#Two door cinema club tour 2019 reddit skinĪfter years of trying to find their feet and catch up with the rapid success that was thrust upon them as young men at the turn of the decade, and a subsequent period having to re-establish themselves interpersonally and to the rest of the world, now Two Door Cinema Club seem to finally be comfortable in their own skin and are reaping the artistic spoils that come with it.
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