Two Door Cinema Club: "We’ve been putting together the new record"

When Alex Trimble leads Two Door Cinema Club onto that headline stage in Finsbury Park for Community Festival this summer, there’s no denying its importance and timing. One that comes out of a period that started with self-doubt and has ended in a triumph that’s reaffirmed their status as one of the truly great British bands carving infectious indie hooks for packed out crowds.

Finsbury Park is the sort of moment of which most bands can only dream - when you get to that big outdoor headliner, you know you’re tied into something special. For Two Door, it’s the natural next step for a band in the sweet spot of discovering new ground, continuing to experiment and push at the walls that once surrounded them. In a literal sense too, it’s pretty grand for Alex.

Two Door Cinema Club in 2018 are a band reborn. Reborn by a record like ‘Gameshow’, coming out of a time full of challenges and difficulties, and coming to terms with the rapid rise that followed their first two albums. Sizzling indie adulation came, but for them as people - it was a drastic shift which had its implications.