Two Door Cinema Club will be at First Avenue on Sunday, September 22nd. Two Door Cinema Club are back with a new album that came out in June and will be bringing that excitement to First Avenue.
Now showing at Two Door Cinema Club – a story Hollywood could’ve writ. Full of action, intrigue, conflict and resolution, Reservoir Dogs meets Rocky meets A Star Is Born meets Love Actually. The elevator pitch: in 2008, three schoolmates from Bangor Grammar School in County Down – singer Alex Trimble, guitarist Sam Halliday and bassist Kevin Baird – form a band intending to add a pristine melodic frisson to the helium rock sounds of Foals and The Maccabees. Signing to French indie label Kitsune and all but ignored by the media, they build a DIY phenomenon by dint of relentless touring and a close connection to their online fanbase, nicknamed The Basement People.
Alex has been writing songs to help himself through his songwriting insecurities, or acknowledging the depths and layers of character that the band have been allowed to develop since the band’s involuntary hiatus. It all makes for a wide-eyed, culture-encompassing leap forward for TDCC, a record liable to break, ruin and remold pop in 2019. And it’s only the beginning of the band’s unified and assured new phase. Best strap yourselves in for one hell of a Hollywood ending. A happily-ever-after set to run and run.
Overcoats will be getting things started for this Sunday night show. Overcoats is the New York-based female duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. Their debut album YOUNG captures a sound rich in minimalism and melody: songs of connection and tension, on the depths of love and challenges of family. Overcoats’ music draws strength from vulnerability, finding light through darkness, and the catharsis of simple, honest songwriting. YOUNG is about a transformation: the passage into womanhood, sung through the shared experience of two best friends.
Tickets are still available HERE!
Joining them will be Overcoats the New York-based female duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. Their debut album YOUNG captures a sound rich in minimalism and melody: songs of connection and tension, on the depths of love and challenges of family. Overcoats’ music draws strength from vulnerability, finding light through darkness, and the catharsis of simple, honest songwriting. YOUNG is about a transformation: the passage into womanhood, sung through the shared experience of two best friends.
On their first single “Hold Me Close,” Hana and JJ’s melodies are purity in unison, providing two distinct but entwined perspectives on the complexity of love. In their words, “the song is about finding solace in the present when the future and past seem impossible to understand. It’s about loneliness and disillusionment that we can feel in relationships, and how we must persevere anyway in hopes of finding the beauty in love.”
Tour Dates:
September
09 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
13 — New York, N.Y. @ Hammerstein Ballroom
15 — Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Fillmore
16 — Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues
18 — Toronto, Ont. @ Danforth Music Hall
21 — Chicago, Ill. @ Riviera Theatre
22 — Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue
November
01 — Seattle, Wash. @ Showbox SoDo
02 — Portland, Ore. @ Crystal Ballroom
04 — Oakland, Calif. @ Fox Theater
06 — Hollywood, Calif. @ Hollywood Palladium
08 — San Diego, Calif. @ The Observatory – North Park
09 — Phoenix, Ariz. @ The Van Buren
12 — Dallas, Texas @ South Side Ballroom
13 — Austin, Texas @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater
14 — Houston, Texas @ White Oak Music Hall
