Buoyed by the exposure, their second album Beacon hit number two in the UK chart and the top spot in Ireland a week later. Within a few years they'd become bona fide stars, propelled by frontman Alex Trimble's terrific performance of the track "Caliban's Dream" to a global audience at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. The group featured at a number of major festivals that year, wowing crowds at Leeds (where they have become almost resident performers) and Glastonbury with upbeat hits such as "Something Good Can Work". Debut album Tourist History was an instant hit, winning the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year, with the band donating their £10,000 winnings to charity. These three lads from Bangor in Northern Ireland (rather than the Welsh one) formed their Two Door Cinema Club after meeting at school, taking their name from a mispronunciation of their local picture house Tudor Cinema. Two Door Cinema Club: UK festival favourites So what are you waiting for? Buy Two Door Cinema Club tickets now at StubHub UK. Capping off an amazing couple of years that's seen them storm the charts with third album Gameshow, they're likely to be touring the UK again before long. Long considered a UK festival favourite, Northern Irish boys Two Door Cinema Club have finally ascended to the country's biggest arenas - and fans are excitedly snapping up tickets for their hotly anticipated shows. Always a strong live act, now with an album under their belt, Sundara Karma prove why they are currently the hottest property on the up-and-coming British indie-rock scene.Rovi Two Door Cinema Club Tickets Two Door Cinema Club: Northern Irish hitmakers It’s a song that received much Radio 1 airplay and propelled the band through a stratospheric rise in recent months. Closing the set in fine fashion (unlike the garments on show), was Loveblood, one of the biggest indie singles of 2016. Swiftly re-emerging for an encore, Sundara Karma unleashed a Luther Vandross-shaped surprise with a cover of his disco classic, Never Too Much. A hymn-like harmony over a cheery guitar string plucking intro descends into Pollock desperately proclaiming anything but a happy family. The band closed the main set with their ‘Wonderwall’, Happy Family. All the while effortlessly maintaining his grace and poise. A crowd-surf-gone-wrong turned into Pollock navigating his way around a packed dancefloor back to the stage as though he were a religious icon being mobbed by adoring followers. He proved this on Vivienne, losing his guitar before losing himself amongst the crowd during this epic love number. One Circa Waves is more than enough, fellas.Īlly Baty on lead guitar, Haydn Evans on drums and Dom Cordell on bass all contribute towards Sundara Karma’s tight indie-pop sound, but it is frontman Oscar Pollock providing the star quality. However one song I find less impressive is She Said, a blatant Circa Waves rip-off. This cynic was very impressed by this strong first effort, one of the best albums of 2017 so far (admittedly we are one month and 14 days into 2017 at the time of writing). Sundara Karma fully showcased their debut album, the cynically named Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect. Mark my words they have a sound fit for stadiums, so don’t expect to see them in 2,000 capacity venues for too much longer.
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It perfectly demonstrated why they had to upgrade venues from The Rainbow to Birmingham’s O2 Institute, such was the demand for the show. That complaint out of the way, the exciting opening was followed by latest single, the anthemic Flame. They not only disrupted the bands’ concentration (knocking over mic stands, bumping pedals) but scared this reviewer sh*tless, as spontaneous balloon pops were less than complimentary additions to the set. Admittedly they scored an own-goal by deciding to deploy large multi-coloured balloons, bought for a giants’ birthday party. On their first major headline tour, the glamorous Reading outfit hoped to make this first night a spectacle, dressed to impress, as though they had walked through a Salvation Army shop covered in Velcro flares, blouses and long hair to boot. Diving straight in with album opener A Young Understanding, the band certainly showed they had this as the youthful crowd swayed, crushed, moshed and bounced energetically over the next seventy minutes. The band emerged on the O2 Institute stage to Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl presumably the foursome had forgotten their entrance music and the only CD at their disposal was NOW 62*. One day after the conclusion of their support of Two Door Cinema Club, Sundara Karma comfortably shake off the Best Supporting Cast shackles, proving to be more than capable of a rapturous headline show.