Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club are a Northern Irish rock band formed in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland in 2007. The band consists of Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats, synths), Sam Halliday (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Kevin Baird (bass, synths, backing vocals).

The band's debut album, Tourist History, was released on 1 March 2010 by French independent record label Kitsuné Musique. In the United States, where the band are signed to Glassnote Records, the album was released on 27 April 2010. Tourist History was selected for the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year (2010) the following year.

The band's second album, Beacon, was released on 3 September 2012, debuted at number one on the Irish Albums Chart and reached number two in the UK Albums Chart.

The band's third album, Gameshow, was released on 14 October 2016. The first single, "Are We Ready? (Wreck)", was released on 14 June 2016 and was debuted on Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1. Two more singles, "Bad Decisions" and the title track, "Gameshow", were released prior to the album and are also included on the track list.

Their fourth album, False Alarm, was released on 21 June 2019 and featured the singles "Satellite" and "Talk". In the following years, they have played regular slots at festivals such as Reading and Leeds Festival and Glastonbury.

Trimble and Halliday first met while attending Bangor Grammar School; the pair later met Baird through mutual friends. The three first performed as a band at the age of 16 on ATL Rock School under the name Life Without Rory; the band finished in last place. Life Without Rory recorded some demos before disbanding; including "Safe in Silence" and "Conscripted By Choice" that are still on the band's inactive MySpace page. Another song, "You Missed the Point" exists in live version and can be viewed on YouTube.

After the demise of this first musical project, Trimble, Halliday and Baird decided to continue working together. In 2007, Two Door Cinema Club was established with the name inspired by Halliday's mispronunciation of the name of the local cinema, the Tudor Cinema. Following an increased interest in the band, the three members declined their university places and commenced work on studio material.

An EP entitled Four Words to Stand On was released on 26 March 2008 and received attention on a number of websites. The EP was self-recorded and produced and was mixed and mastered by Ryan Mitchell. For the tenth anniversary of the EP, the band publicly released it in March 2018.^{[citation needed]}