Tonight’s hour-long setlist is tight and familiar, to the point that the band can afford to shuffle it around and leave a handful of whoppers out. You can see why people are still paying attention. Here is a band who understand that they are part of a bigger story much like their not-quite-indie-landfill comrades The Wombats – who are simultaneously commanding the Main Stage West at the other end of the site – Two Door are still capable of garnering serious attention at festivals where their genre contemporaries would not even get a look-in anymore. It’s easy to forget that it’s been a whopping 11 years since the track’s parent album, ‘Tourist History’, entered the world. From the moment that frontman Alex Trimble triggers opener ‘I Can Talk’s nimble guitar riff, the temperature rises as a result of the series of the limbs-flailing euphoria that emerges. You have to duck and dive through mazes of punters hastily swigging from poorly camouflaged hip-flasks (or in one fan’s case, a bottle of makeup remover) and flying pints to even catch a glimpse of the Northern Irish trio.Īnd there’s sweat, buckets of it. There’s something of a sticky indie disco atmosphere rising from the crowd waiting at the Main Stage East for Two Door Cinema Club’s sunset slot at Reading Festival 2021.

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