The warning signs were all there: the hundreds of gigs a year the realisation that touring made them forget about everything and everyone the skin tone of vampires the no one shouting “stop”. The band was broken, mentally and physically. His bandmates and management flew to the US to accompany him to the UK, where he promptly collapsed and ended up in hospital for two weeks. this.”īy 2014, and set to headline the Latitude festival, Trimble was in the midst of a meltdown. In the documentary Trimble responds, “The first record was full-on, but it didn’t feel as full-on as. In 2012 Two Door Cinema club were so famous that Trimble sang Caliban’s Dream, a key piece of music during Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London Olympics. “I don’t know how you did it, Alex, with the Olympics stuff,” he continues. There’s a moment in What We See, their tour documentary, released in the aftermath of their second album, Beacon, when Baird says, “I feel terrible.” He and Halliday are shown standing in white T-shirts that accentuate their pallor. At the peak of their success everything unravelled. But that point, as many bands before them have learned, is a mythical target.

They told themselves that if they kept going they’d get to a point where they would be established and could lean back.

On fashionable record labels – Kitsuné and Glassnote – they blew up, hitting the road with gig after gig, festival after festival and party after party – all steps on the trajectory towards big band status. The band released their debut album, Tourist History, in 2010 their sound was buoyant, with pop melodies sprinting along guitar frets like a kid flying a kite. Halliday mentions that they have a juicer on their rider. Trimble’s Bangor accent is now tinged with an American twang.

Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday are set to play Stubb’s Waller Creek, an outdoor amphitheatre, a week before the release of their third album, Gameshow. Two Door Cinema Club are sitting in an Airstream trailer backstage at a venue in Austin, Texas, looking – and I don’t mean to alarm anyone – healthy.

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