It was all very good-natured, with participants clearly loving life as they bounced around and knocked into each other. You wouldn't necessarily think inoffensive indie pop would lend itself to a mosh pit but sections of the crowd gave it a good go. The inflated condoms being bounced around the venue was another clue! One of several inflated condoms being bounced around the venue Support for the newer stuff was perhaps indicative of the average age of the audience of mainly 20-somethings. There's nothing worse than when a band won't play their hits.īut their most recent tracks, including the odd one from their latest album Keep on Smiling, also proved hugely popular with the crowd, with many belting out the lyrics to the joyful Wonderful Life. The likes of early hits Undercover Martyn and What You Know were staples on the playlists of indie clubs from my youth, and unsurprisingly elicited the most energetic response from the crowd. The dominance of songs from their debut album was very welcome. The perfectly-judged setlist went down a storm. Two Door Cinema Club frontman Alex Trimble But anyone who hasn’t heard of the Bangor band would almost certainly recognise one or more of their catchy songs, which have featured on soundtracks including The Inbetweeners, video game FIFA and a handful of teen films. Two Door Cinema Club frontman Alex Trimble - framed by cameraphonesīut as the proverbial curtain went up, so did a wall of hands clutching phones, forcing me to strain for a view of the stage that wasn't via someone else's screen.Ĭharismatic frontman Alex Trimble, suited and booted in the sweltering heat, told the crowd in his Northern Irish drawl he was happy to be in Margate for the first time.ĭespite being one of the most successful indie bands to come out of the UK in recent years, Two Door Cinema Club are still not quite in the mainstream. The thousands-strong crowd danced and jumped about as the tinkly guitar riffs, thumping bass and clean, high-energy drums shifted the energy up a gear. The excitement was now palpable for the main act, who opened strong with the life-affirming This Is The Life from their debut album. Many of their songs did sound vaguely familiar, but it wasn't until their finale, T-shirt Weather, that the recognition of: "Oh, it's THAT band" dawned on me. It's not a band I had heard of but they seemed to have a large following in the crowd, with some wearing band t-shirts and many singing along to their catchy indie pop tracks word for word. Circa Waves provided the support for Two Door Cinema Club at Dreamland Not that the crowd needed much warming up in the scorching late-summer heat, but the Liverpudlian five-piece provided some very strong support.
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