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Two Door Cinema Club
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Two Door Cinema Club
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From Tourist History (2010), the Northern Irish band's debut and winner of the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year. An early single, later used on a Fat Face TV advert — one of the tracks that fused indie rock with electronic energy into the era-defining sound of 2010. Opens the indie run on pure momentum and recognition; the 2010 nostalgia is the TikTok angle.
TikTok angle: This song defined indie in 2010 — from the album that won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year, and it also ended up in a Fat Face clothing advert.
Two Door Cinema Club
Origin: Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland · formed 2007 · active
Members: Alex Trimble — lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, drums · Sam Halliday — lead guitar, synths, backing vocals · Kevin Baird — bass, synths, keyboards, backing vocals
Genre: Indie pop, indie rock, dance-punk, synth-pop, post-punk revival
Discography:
Tourist History (2010) — Kitsuné Musique/Glassnote — debut, won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year
Beacon (2012) — Parlophone
Gameshow (2016) — Parlophone
False Alarm (2019) — Parlophone
Keep On Smiling (2022) — Lower Third/Prolifica
Facts:
The band's name comes from a mishearing — guitarist Sam Halliday's mispronunciation of the local Tudor Cinema in Bangor.
Frontman Alex Trimble performed "Caliban's Dream" at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, personally selected by director Danny Boyle.
In 2022 the band destroyed the master tapes of Keep On Smiling in a furnace as a protest against multi-format reissue culture, ensuring it can never be pressed to CD.