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Two Door Cinema Club: “We don’t want people to kneel at the altar of our genius, we want to entertain them”

Two Door Cinema Club have spoken to NME about returning to their roots on new standalone single ‘Happy Customers’, feeling like the album format is “outdated”, playing Reading & Leeds for the seventh time and their newly announced North American tour.‘Happy Customers’ follows on from Two Door Cinema Club’s 2023 single ‘Sure Enough’ and sees the band “return to their roots”, according to bassist Kevin Baird.“It feels like we’ve done the hyper-produced hi-fi stuff [on 2016’s ‘Gameshow’, 2019’s ‘False Alarm’ and 2022’s ‘Keep On Smiling’]. This was just about doing something more simple,” he explained.“The things that are exciting us at the moment are big riffs with high-tempo electronic elements.
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Two Door Cinema Club cancel European tour as Kevin Baird battles “incurable autoimmune disease”
Two Door Cinema Club have cancelled their upcoming European headline tour due to the health of bassist Kevin Baird.The band shared the news on social media via a message from Baird which explained that he had been receiving treatment for an “incurable autoimmune disease”.“I’ve loved every second of playing shows again this summer, especially after such a long time away but the harsh reality is that it’s been really hard on my body,” the message read.“I’ve been experiencing a lot of ups and downs in managing this bastard of a disease and after a lot of long chats with my doctor we’ve decided that the next step is surgery to remove the affected organ after which it should be much more manageable.”He added that he was “scheduled to have the operation in a few weeks”, which means the band will no longer be able to play their September and October dates in Europe. As for shows later in the year, he said: “As it stands the medical advice I’ve been given is that we’ll have to wait and see how the recovery goes after my operation.”A message from Kevin… pic.twitter.com/MX5NlNfJWh— Two Door Cinema Club (@TDCinemaClub) September 5, 2022Baird concluded the message by thanking the NHS and his bandmates Alex Trimble and Sam Halliday for their support, adding “thanks to all of you for being the best fans in the world”.The band also added a tweet, writing: “Refunds will be available from point of purchase.
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