ARTIST · INDIE / DANCE

Two Door Cinema Club

Clean picking and four-on-floor glue—festival tent electricity in neon packaging.

Indie rock
Dance-punk
Synth-pop

Updated 27 October 2026

Listen on NCR All artists

Biography

Tourist History packaged lean songs for blog-to-radio handoff moment.

What You Know and Sun cemented them on international festival line-ups.

Later LPs embraced synth sheen while preserving rhythmic twitch.

High-bitrate streams expose DI guitar zing, sidechain synth duck, and falsetto blend.

Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird met at school in Bangor, Northern Ireland. Tourist History (2010) includes What You Know and Something Good Can Work, and it showcased clean, dance-influenced guitar pop.

Beacon (2012) and Gameshow (2016) followed, then False Alarm (2019). Keep On Smiling (2022) came after a long break.

Two Door Cinema Club: recent news, 2020–2026

2022 Keep On Smiling was released in October.

Interesting facts about Two Door Cinema Club

01 Northern Irish indie band formed in Bangor in 2007; Alex Trimble is lead vocalist.
02 Tourist History (2010) included What You Know as an alternative radio staple.
03 Gameshow (2016) explored denser production while maintaining touring momentum.
04 The band met at school in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
05 False Alarm was released in 2019.