Fifteen years on from Tourist History, Bangor’s Two Door Cinema Club play their debut album in full on the closing night of their first UK and Ireland tour in seven years.
Two Door Cinema Club, whose Beacon reached number two in Britain, play their debut Tourist History in full at The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Thursday 28 January 2027.
Alex Trimble and Sam Halliday met at Bangor Grammar School in County Down and first played together with Kevin Baird at 16. They became Two Door Cinema Club in 2007, after Halliday’s mispronunciation of the Tudor Cinema in their home town. All three turned down university places to make records.
Tourist History, recorded in London, appeared in March 2010, two years before Beacon, and won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year. Its singles, among them “What You Know” and “Something Good Can Work”, set bright, interlocking guitar lines at dance-floor tempos.
In London the band moved from Brixton Academy to Alexandra Palace in April 2013, then their largest show in the city. This date closes their first UK and Ireland headline tour in more than seven years.
After Tourist History from first track to last, the trio play a set drawn from the four albums since, with the standalone singles “Sure Enough” and “Happy Customers”.