Two Door Cinema Club, Corn Exchange, Edinburgh

In preparation for some of their biggest festival shows yet, Two Door Cinema Club’s short UK tour sees a band revving up their motors and preparing to explode in front of crowds who may be more ambivalent than the adoring fans who fill the Edinburgh Corn Exchange tonight. And anyone who hadn’t seen the Northern Irish band before will surely have been blown away. As the lights go down, the show starts and the band take to the stage with boundless energy, the Corn Exchange bursts in to life.

Two Door Cinema Club’s enthusiasm is infectious and, as the set travels from one hit to another seamlessly, the crowd are kept on their toes. In comparison to the somewhat muted sound that carries through some of their weaker album tracks, each song is imbued with life and energy by the frenetic and fun performance of the band onstage. The audience reacts with this and when big hitters like ‘I Can Talk’ and ‘Something Good Can Work’ start, the crowd has to take things up a gear. Naturally, this leads to a sense of fatigue in the audience, but the band keep things enthusiastic throughout, barely allowing breathing space between songs.

The show strikes of a band desperate to impress in the best way possible. As anyone who’s seen a true headline act knows, that requires an extra element of engagement and connected energy with the band’s audience, and the main thing that Two Door Cinema Club proved at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange is that they know how to push things up into the next gear.