


“Those huge bands that are in the background your whole life.

“I listened to a lot of The Beatles, Motown, Kraftwerk, Talk Talk and the Beach Boys,” he says. Trimble was listening to some well-known names he had perhaps, taken for granted. The trio of Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday took five months off to get the ideas for new songs and to record what would become Beacon earlier this year, while playing once-off shows in-between. The whirlwind of the last three years have culminated in Beacon. The band’s calendar has North America, Europe, Australia and European shows up until next April and they’ve a big show in Dublin’s The O2 on January 19th. Now that their second album Beacon is out, not much has changed. Between festivals, recording, touring and the small matter of one of them participating in the Olympics Opening Ceremony, county Down’s Two Door Cinema Club haven’t really let up since they first appeared three years ago.
