I met the lads in April 2010, upon their first visit to Washington they opened for Phoenix, their American labelmates on Glassnote Records. The reason for the cancellation is less important for the purpose of this analysis, though it struck me as intensely personal: singer/guitarist Alex Trimble collapsed on their way to the airport and needed immediate medical attention for “a chronic stomach complaint”. I gave more serious thought to my father when my friends Two Door Cinema Club had to cancel their headline set at Latitude 2 weekends ago and a later planned appearance in Splendour in the Grass in Australia this past weekend. Maybe that’s where my editing experience began? I know these things, because even at a young age, with English as his second language, he’d ask me to review his slides and notes, making sure he was grammatically correct. I know a lot of this was unavoidable: he often had to go out into the field for one or another of his many expeditions, or he’d be called away to a foreign land for a scientific meeting or conference. My father was a scientist and he was away a lot when I was a child. Words by: going to guess Alex Trimble, as I’ve never asked them who in their band writes the lyrics Where to find it: ‘Beacon’ (2012, Kitsune, Glassnote )

2 door cinema club tour 2015