Well, Kevin’s older brother is in a band, and he didn’t do that, so they were cool with that. We kind of sold it as a year out to them. How were your parents with that decision? But we knew we weren’t going to actually pursue the whole educational path in life. At the school we went to, it was just kind of the normal thing to do, to apply, because you had time during the week to actually do all your application and things, so we all kind of did it. We all applied to go to university after school, but none of us really wanted to. How close were you to going to college and not pursuing the band?
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I understand that you had to choose between going to university after school and pursuing the band full time. I think some people are able to do this sort of thing for a living, and some people it doesn’t really appeal to them. That lasted up until we were about 17, and then our drummer decided that he wanted to go on to other things, and we still wanted to write together, so we used the laptop as a backing track and wrote songs. So we were influenced by things like Biffy Clyro and At the Drive-In, things like that, and a lot of local bands form Belfast, and we just tried to emulate other people’s sounds a bit. At the time, we didn’t really know all that many bands. I guess probably since we were 14 until we were 16 or 17, so a good couple of years. How long did you guys play with a drummer, and what sort of music did you play? I understand it was a bit different than what you’re doing now. It was just from seeing those guys play in church halls and little things like that when we were young teenagers that allowed us to think we could do that. They weren’t signed to any record labels or didn’t have any albums out, they were just there in the local scene.
It wasn’t really until we saw other bands in Belfast who were just like my and Kevin’s older brother and sister’s friends. mostly through the local music scene in Belfast, when we were 13, 14. Sam Halliday: I grew up in Bangor, in Northern Ireland, which is pretty close to Belfast. Halliday reports to Under the Radar from the band’s tour bus, just prior to show time.įrank Valish: Can you tell me a bit about where you grew up and what sort of things were formative for you in terms of choosing this path? Halliday and his mates, vocalist/guitarist Alex Trimble and bassist Kevin Baird, haven’t burnt out quite yet though, and finally they can see the light at the end of the tunnel in some time off at the end of the year when they’ll begin a different kind of work, writing some new songs. As guitarist Sam Halliday reports, from the road (surprise) prior to an October gig in Philadelphia, the band can count its days off since the album’s release on one hand. If it seems to you that Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club has been on the road almost constantly since its debut, Tourist History, came out in early 2010, you’d be pretty much right.
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