Two Door Cinema Club strike back at Glastonbury 2016

As live returns go, things don’t get much snazzier than the world’s most infamous festival stage. Greeted by a sea of wildly flailing umbrellas, Alex Trimble is bursting with an easy, slightly cocksure confidence (and sporting a new hair-do to boot) that surely comes from Two Door Cinema Club’s stadium rousing new material.

The likes of ‘Gameshow’ - the title track from the Northern Irish band’s forthcoming new album - are greeted like old pals spotted in a crowd across the Silver Hayes field. Less angular than debut cuts, and chasing after giant sprawling harmonies instead, new material dominates for a chunk before the band steam headlong into ‘Something Good Can Work’. The Pyramid field loses its shit.

Clearly focused on steaming forward, but bringing a trolley-load of older bangers to Glastonbury, blimey, it’s good to have Two Door back in the game.

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