Two Door Poster Club
January 11, 2011 Posted by admin at 9:13 am
It seems that everyone is getting a little bit tech-savvy in twenty-eleven.
Not to miss out on this fun, we’ve been grinding gears, bits and bandwidths interwebs for the past few months with our friends from Kitsune, Glassnote and Two Door Cinema Club to bring you – TWO DOOR POSTER CLUB.
Forget collecting stamps, we’re focusing upon photos. 400 of them. Well, 400 of your photos, which will be collaged together to make one giant block mounted TDCC Tour Poster. This one-of-a-kind piece will be signed, sealed, and delivered along with a heap of signed TDCC merch to one lucky fan.
For your chance to win, visit the etcetc facebook page, and get uploading and voting.
Two Door Cinema Club Remix Competition
June 29, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:56 am
Two Door Cinema Club will release a deluxe edition of their debut album, “Tourist History” on September 13th. Since it’s release, “Tourist History” is approaching sales of 50,000 copies worldwide and hasn’t left the top 200 in the UK, which is extremely impressive!
To mark the release of the deluxe edition Two Door Cinema Club are launching a remix competition via their website. Fans can download the separate parts of album track “What You Know” from the bands website, to create their own version of the track. The winning entry will be included on the deluxe edition of the album out September 13th as well being included in the digital bundle of ”What You Know” when it’s released.
To enter, click on the link below:
http://twodoorcinemaclub.com/remix-competition/
Also, keep your eyes out on the new Two Door Cinema club single ” Come Back Home” which will be released real soon on July 12th.
You wouldn’t want to miss out on this little gem!
Two Door Cinema Club Sold Out Shows Down Under!!
June 12, 2010 Posted by Eva at 12:04 pm
Following the announcement that Two Door Cinema Club will be playing this years Splendor in the Grass, They’ll also do several side shows across our land down under, Australia.
Two of three shows are already sold out and two of three shows had to be changed to a larger venue due to popular demand!
The irish indie pop rockers will be on the band wagon for this amazing festival that marks its 10 year point. What a better way to enter 2010 than with the fantastic trio Two Door Cinema Club!!
Sideshows are listed as follows:
THURS 29 JULY – UNIBAR, ADELAIDE – SOLD OUT
MON 2 AUG – MANNING BAR, SYDNEY – CHANGED TO LARGER VENUE DUE TO DEMAND
TUES 3 AUG – BILLBOARD, MELBOURNE - SOLD OUT CHANGED TO LARGER VENUE DUE TO DEMAND
Better hurry sydney siders or this show will sell out!
Two Door Cinema Club: free download + Splendour Announcement
April 21, 2010 Posted by Eva at 2:34 pm
Following the announcement that they will be playing this years Splendour in the Grass, Two Door Cinema Club’s latest single ‘Undercover Martyn’ has just been named the iTunes’ Single of the Week! Click here and it’s yours to download for FREE but be quick, it won’t last forever!
New Two Door Cinema Club Video ‘Something Good Can Work’
April 21, 2010 Posted by Eva at 10:44 am
Three handsome boys from the smashing band Two Door Cinema Club have come together to create this fantastic video ‘Something Good Can Work’ that entices viewers to see the beautiful landscapes of Spain. With the wonderful cinematography you can reveal an epic journey in where the clip depicts and captures moments with the band making this extremely unique and amusing to watch. For your viewing pleasure, here is the new video ‘Something Good Can Work’.
Tourist History
February 26, 2010 Posted by Eva at 10:31 am
In this day and age, a record that defies you to spot what music its makers have been listening to is a rare beast – especially one that makes you dance and sing as well. The fact they’re still so young – and, by definition, inexperienced – makes it even more extraordinary. Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club are a music-mad trio and their debut album – fizzes with invention and sparkling tunes. It’s undeniably pop, and it draws on electronica/electro, rock and Afro-beats without ever recalling hopeful dilettantes, but the sum is greater than any ‘indie electro pop’ parts. The album also re-defines short, sharp and sweet – 10 songs, 32 minutes and no wastage whatsoever – as classic debut albums should be.
Their story begins with three 15-year olds at school in Bangor, Northern Ireland. Vocalist/ guitarist Alex Trimble and bassist Kevin Baird studied music together; guitarist Sam Halliday was a mate of Alex’s. Their name was a happy accident. A few days after they’d all visited The Tudor Cinema, which specialised in ‘50s/‘60s B movies, Sam suggested Two Door Cinema Club, which the others thought was really cool. “We asked him how he came up with the name,” Kev recalls, “and it turned out he thought ‘Tudor’ was pronounced two-door’!”
By this point, the boys’ tastes had gravitated toward alt.pop, such as Death Cab For Cutie, Architecture In Helsinki, Bloc Party and Modest Mouse, whose collectively leaner, rhythmic and melodic approach spilled over into their own music. Gigs were quickly secured on the back of two songs (neither of which they play anymore) posted to myspace, followed by a deal with Kitsuné, the release of their debut single Something Good Can Work in March ’09, and immediate support from radio (especially Radio 1’s Steve Lamacq).
The album simply multiplies the single’s surfeit of ideas and sounds. Take the opening Cigarettes In The Theatre, which instantly nails the band’s light-footed, but hard-driving, energy. It begins with an ambient rumble, then adds a niggling guitar (or it could be a synth) line, which develops a siren-like insistence over a nervy beat pattern before a telling pause and a newer, deliciously – almost deliriously – danceable song kicks in. The icing is Alex’s vocal melody, with its almost dreamy brand of urgency, and his bare-boned narrative of meeting his last girlfriend (“We’ll pass the burning light / we’ll just keep talking on / tell me your favourite things”). And then there’s the exhilarating trumpet coda. Brilliant.
The album, Alex explains, has two general themes – ‘love’ songs (“but not in a typical sense; I’m adamant about avoiding clichés”) and songs that chart, “our progression over this past 18 months. Where we’ve come from to where we are now with this album.” The trio were faced with choosing between the security of university/potential career and the uncertainty and thrill of the band; we all know which won out, but Something Good Will Work is a self-explanatory lyric by Alex to the other two, likewise Do You Want It All?, “a song of hope, to keep us going, with the thought that if we try hard enough, then we’re gonna do well.”
Do You Want It All also shows the subtler side of TDCC despite the high bpm and the escalating switch into an exhilarating sprint, led by Sam’s dizzy, brilliantly simple guitar. “He’s a massively versatile guitar player,” Alex says of TDCC’s more interview-shy member. “He has a great ear for what sounds good, and incorporates a lot of different styles, which provides a nice variation throughout songs.”
From the Afro-pop lilt of Something Good Can Work (imagine Vampire Weekend with an acute pop sensibility) to the smooth/jittery combo of Eat That Up It’s Good For You [about the rise of women emulating men’s worst boozing-and-cruising habits: “that’s me venting my anger, in a happy pop song,” Alex grins), there are TDCC favourites all over the shop.
If they can make such a mature album this early on, think of what they can do next time and the next album after that.
Tourist History is out now on etcetc.
Tracklist:
1. Cigarettes in the Theater
2. Come Back Home
3. Do You Want it All
4. This is the Life
5. Something Good Can
Work
6. I Can Talk
7. Undercover Martyn
8. What You Know
9. Eat that Up, it’s Good for
You
10. You’re Not Stubborn