THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MAY 2011
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
INDIE//ROCK//ALTERNATIVE 43 Anna Gould
These guys have been on the rise since they hit the music scene back in 2009, now expect to see these Northern Irish rockers smash it this summer with the release of their new album Tourist History.
You are headlining the Parklife Weekender in Man- chester next month. Are you looking forward to it? Yeah we’re really, really excited actually. Manchester’s a really cool city and we’ve always loved playing there and it’s always been really cool for us, the crowds have always been great. Ya know it’s our first proper time headlining a festival. It’s also a bit scary and a bit daunting but you know we’re super excited about it. It should be really cool.
Your debut record Tourist His- tory has received high praise from your peers and critics alike. Is it everything you expected? It was a bit of slow burner record. It came out almost eighteen months ago now and it only really started getting played on Radio 1 in September and (we’ve) only re- ally got big features in magazines in the past six to eight months. It
took a long time to get there, like I said it took people a long time to realise…I think also we were coming through at a point where everyone was telling people guitar music was dead. Dance tunes and keyboards and I guess we have a degree of that, but we’re mostly a guitar band… Our album went ‘gold’ in March so it took a year, whereas someone like Adele (who went) nine times ‘platinum’ in the space of a month. We think it’s a great record and obviously we’re really proud of it. I guess it took other people a bit longer to realise that! At the same time we had a lot of recognition from other places, throughout Europe and Asia and Australia. It just took a little bit more work here in the UK and America than in other places but you know it’s really great to finally stand up and not sit on the fence anymore and say, ‘You know, it is a great record and they are a great band’.
You mentioned how difficult it is for guitar-based bands compared to before. The Indie market has faded over the past five years. How do you find this affects you as a band trying to make it? I think it makes it more exclusive you know. That whole under- ground scene- it’s just completely viral now. It’s almost like a return to how it was in the 60s and 70s- pre-Internet years. You’re in that scene- you follow certain blogs and you follow certain websites, certain magazines, certain radio stations and stuff like that. I think it’s really cool, it becomes more exclusive and you know it’s not just a case of you know people coming along because they heard your song once on the radio- there is obviously a bit of that. People then know more about your whole record, people are a lot more interested in buying your merchandise and more interested in keeping up with your Facebook
and Twitter. They wanna know who you are and they want your personality and that’s a really good way to do things. It’s great for the audience and it’s great for the fans. The only difference I guess is the success…I guess the difference is money. Artists aren’t becoming millionaires anymore.
I heard that the organizers have increased the capacity of the Radio One/NME stage at Reading this year because of your performance last year. That is one hell of an achieve- ment considering who played in that tent? It’s really cool you know and is a really good platform. Reading is more of a Rock Festival and that corresponds to the acts that play the main stage. To be on that Radio One / NME stage last year, you know the line-up was incredible. I think it was one of those festival moments where
you could stay at that stage all day. You know bands like LCD Sound System and Belfunk, it was really cool! We found out the other day Festival Republic, the people who run Reading, they record pressures on the barrier and also density of people in the tent and we had the highest ever pressure exerted on the barrier at Reading and we had the most densely packed stage ever to exist at Reading before so it’s pretty good.
What was it like playing to such a big crowd? Yeah it’s mind-blowing. People started crowd-surfing as soon as our backdrop went up- you know before we even got on stage. So it was just mental. Going out there and seeing people really enjoying themselves and having as good a time as you are up there on stage.
Have you met all of your musi- cal heroes yet or are you still
itching and waiting to? Ehhh it’d be pretty cool to do a track with Paul McCartney I think. I think we’d love that and Stevie Wonder would be pretty awe- some or Kanye West.
If you could fill a swimming pool with anything what would it be? Most people put water in it right? I’d like to have a little swim so… I think it would be pretty disgusting to swim in anything else. Money, I dunno. Drugs!
Keep up to date with Two Door Cinema Club at www.
myspace.com/twodoorcin- emaclub, with all their tour and festival dates.
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