2 Door Cinema Club, Duchess, 11 March 2011

Two Door Cinema Club was the first gig that I’d been to that checked out new talent. Call me a creature of comfort, but up until this point I’d always dabbled with the familiar sounds of bands I’d long appreciated. TDCC marked the end of that nonsense to become a riskier gig goer prepared to lose a tenner on the door in the hope of finding a new band to join the music shelves.

Turns out the refit of Fibbers was still ongoing.

The venue was the then recently refurbished Fibbers, dazzling us with the array of wood chip and see through waste pipes (post-modern commentary on society? Or a bargain at Wickes, you decide). Refreshed and open for business, TDCC sold out filling the place with fresh faced scenesters. Of the moment, touted on the radio and bringing a veritable shed load of pop music to the masses, TDCC played without fear. They were very much of the moment, without tried and tested back catalogue, without certified hits and misses, but full of emerging, feet-tapping pop music that lends itself to instant discovery.

With a barrage of pop songs that Joe Meek would have been proud of, they checked in and played 35 minutes of their own material – fast, catchy and brief, it was as every saucy pop gig should be.

Written at the time.