In my memory there were millions of people there and it was the biggest crowd we’d ever played to. Kevin reminisces, “That was the first moment where we couldn’t believe what was happening around us.
“We had a beer before the set, first thing in the morning.” Guitarist Sam Halliday adds, “it didn’t matter – there was going to be nobody there.”Īwaiting the group, however, were a sea of Basement People, with the mid-morning Other Stage crowd near capacity. We were even talking about going back to the studio to get another one done quickly.” The first album had come out and a couple of months later it wasn’t going very well. “I remember our show on the Other Stage in 2010.” Bassist Kevin Baird recalls, “it was like 11am or something. It was the serendipitous coming together of these backers at Glastonbury Festival that gave the debut album the jump-start that it required. The initial release of the album was relatively subdued, but a prolific touring schedule meant that Alex, Kevin and Sam demanded respect from festival bookers, whilst cultivating a diehard fanbase who had already christened themselves “The Basement People”, in homage to a lyric from the track “Undercover Martyn”. The record could match each of its contemporaries in a riff-heavy musical landscape, whilst accenting these guitar structures with automated drums and an electro-pop ethos that allowed the release to penetrate beyond the realms of traditional indie circles. With their 2010 LP, Tourist History, TDCC offered a palate-cleansing alternative to the other indie groups of the time. With a debut album that refused to wane in velocity and a nosebleed-inducing climb towards the summit of festival rosters, the everyman trio from Bangor, NI, had somehow became the most unlikely superstars of a generation.
There was a point in time in which Two Door Cinema Club seemed almost unstoppable.
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