Together 24/7, almost 365 days a year, we were doing over 200 shows a year plus the travelling, records and video shoots – we were never apart. “We pretty much despised one another by the end,” Trimble nods, lounging beside his bandmates back in their Dublin hotel. 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.
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