The current tour by White Lies winds up with not one, but two dates at Brixton Academy. The answer seems to be: touring venues rather larger than you might expect. Given the climate, you might reasonably ask, whither the lower-division strivers of yesteryear, their moment in the sun a decade hence? Over on the Radio 1 playlist, the Amazons offer a solitary, exception-that-proves-the-rule hold-out, swamped by hip-hop, grime and pop. (via mtv.These are, after all, widely held to be thin times indeed for the kind of mainstream alt-rock that was once the NME’s lifeblood: the one thing noticeable by its absence on the main stage at this year’s Glastonbury is a hot young guitar band, catapulted to fame on a firework trajectory by overheated media attention, including at least one front cover that excitedly claims “THIS BAND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE”.

In 2012, Two Door Cinema Club returned with its sophomore album, the Jacknife Lee-produced Beacon. Another single, “Undercover Martyn,” arrived in January 2010, shortly before the band’s first full-length Tourist History was released. The group’s remixes of Phoenix’s “Lasso” and Chew Lips’ “Salt Air” also appeared that year, and by 2009’s end, the group was among the acts featured in the BBC Sound of 2010 Poll. Fortunately, the gamble paid off - the band’s debut EP, Four Words to Stand On, was released in January 2009 by the hip French label Kitsuné to positive reviews and music blog buzz, which grew with the release of April’s single “Something Good Can Work.” That summer, Two Door Cinema Club recorded their debut album in London’s Eastcote Studios with Eliot James, which they mixed with producer Philippe Zdar in Paris that fall. The trio began playing as Two Door Cinema Club in 2007 and skipped going to university to focus on the band. Trimble and Halliday met in school, and met Baird through mutual friends. Mixing electronic polish with guitar-driven hooks à la Phoenix and the Postal Service, Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club feature singer/guitarist/programmer Alex Trimble, guitarist/singer Sam Halliday, and bassist/singer Kevin Baird.

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