Music
18 Jul 19

'We didn't know whether we were going to be a band at the end of it': Two Door Cinema Club on their triumphant return

With Flase Alarm, Two Door Cinema Club have produced their most overtly joyous album to date. In the new Hot Press, Kevin Bard talks to us about how it came to be, and how the band nearly didn't make it through their last album cycle.

In the new issue of Hot Press, Peter McGoran talks to Two Door Cinema Club's Kevin Baird about working with Jacknife Lee, a summer of touring, and their remarkable fourth album.

False Alarm, was released back in June. Dabbling in everything from funk to Afropop to rap featurettes, it’s a record that very nearly wasn’t made.

Speaking in the new Hot Press, Kevin Baird says: “At the beginning, when we were writing and recording Gameshow [the band's 2016 album], we didn’t know whether it was going to be successful or whether the three of us would even be able to get through an album cycle and a touring cycle and not kill each other. We didn’t know at the end of it whether we’d say, ‘OK, that was that, now we’re done.’ That was the thought going into it. It felt very much 50/50. We didn’t know whether we were going to be a band at the end of it. Then we stood back at the end of that tour and said, ‘You know what? That was fun’. We enjoyed the gigs. We enjoyed the album. We enjoyed spending time together. Our relationship changed in a way. We found a new comfort with each other, even outside of writing music. So it wasn’t so much a plan, but more of an appetite.”

To read the full interview, buy the new Hot Press in stores now, or online it online here: