“It’s not about those people, it’s not about that band, it’s about winning,” Baird explains.

Plus, their competitive streak, judging themselves against their contemporaries in terms of sales, shows and attention, had turned them into the rock equivalent of steroid-pumped Russian child gymnasts. Their issues? The hothouse of six years on the road amplified their differing personalities – Baird the anxiety-stricken hedonist, Halliday the well-pressed homebody, Trimble the aspiring art polymath – to the point where they were constantly treading on eggshells. “It never came to a proper breakup but we did get together and say, ‘We need to go away and not speak for a long time.’ And we did have the conversation about a year and a half later, when we got back together and said, ‘Is this something that we want to get back into?’” ‘And we did have the conversation about a year and a half later, when we got back together and said, Is this something that we want to get back into?’ Photograph: Mark Duggan/The Guardian Maybe that’s the best way to return, because having formulated an intricate new strain of modernist indie akin to a pop radio Foals, and ascended to arena status via the fan-driven success of 2010 debut Tourist History and its No 2 follow-up Beacon, word around 2014 was that Two Door had shut down the projectors. With his 60s rock lizard attire and floppy ginger hair, this guy looks like Jim Morrison had a baby with Kevin the Teenager.īut it really is him, and Tudor Cinema Club really is TDCC, warming up for a set of dates in Mexico with a secret three-date tour of Ireland under the guise of their own tribute act. They’re virtually identical, bar the fact that the frontman looks nothing like Two Door’s Tintinesque singer, Alex Trimble. Their renditions of Two Door favourites Undercover Martyn, Something Good Can Work and Next Year are note-perfect. Walking on stage at a rammed Whelan’s in Dublin, their bassist and guitarist are the spitting image of Two Door Cinema Club’s Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday. A s cover bands go, Tudor Cinema Club are pretty convincing.

2 door cinema club disbanded