Two Door Cinema Club have announced a huge outdoor London show to mark the 15th anniversary of their debut album ‘Tourist History’. Find all the details below.
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The Irish trio are due to headline Crystal Palace Park in the capital on Friday June 26, 2026. They’ll be performing their 2010 first LP ‘Tourist History’ in full at the event, along with all their greatest hits.
Support will come from special guests The Vaccines, James Marriott and The Royston Club, and you can find any remaining tickets here.
Now, the stage times have been revealed. Gates are scheduled to open at 2pm ahead of Garage Flower’s opening set at 3pm. After that, The Royston Club will take to the stage at 4pm, followed by James Marriott at 5:15pm and The Vaccines at 6:30pm.
Two Door Cinema Club will then perform at 8:25pm, with doors closing at 10pm. The curfew is 10:30pm.
The full timings for Two Door Cinema Club at Crystal Palace Park, London, are:
Gates
2pm
Stage times
Two Door Cinema Club – 20:25
The Vaccines – 6:30pm
James Marriott – 5:15pm
The Royston Club – 4pm
Garage Flower – 3pm
Gates close
10pm
Other artists playing at Crystal Palace Park this summer are Kneecap, who will perform on Saturday (June 27), marking their biggest headline gig to date.
The Offspring will play on Sunday alongside special guests Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, PUP and Destroy Boys, while Grace Jones is due to headline on July 31.
Gary Numan will perform on Sunday August 6, joined on the night by Marc Almond – performing the songs of Soft Cell and solo tracks – and Ladytron. Elsewhere, Bastille and The Wombats will co-headline on Thursday August 13 and, before then, there will be the first ever ‘Gospel Garden Festival’ taking place at the event.
Two Door Cinema Club will play other 15th anniversary gigs at Cardiff Castle and New York’s Madison Square Garden later this year. They will also be playing major shows in Dublin and Cork this summer, as well as a range of festival appearances, including Isle Of Wight Festival, Kendall Calling, Truck Festival, Y Not Festival and TRNSMT.
The album reached Number One on the Irish chart and landed a spot on the BBC’s coveted ‘Sound Of’ poll in 2010. NME gave ‘Tourist History’ a 7/10 review, writing: “Two Door’s stuttering yet spiky songs are tighter than a snake’s bumhole in a sandstorm.
“[…] Listening to the likes of the thrillingly optimistic ‘What You Know’ and ‘I Can Talk’ makes you feel like you could wrestle former WWE slaphead ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and win.”
Speaking to NME last year, bassist Kevin Baird explained: “When we first formed, we were looking up to bands like Bloc Party and Foals but by the time we released ‘Tourist History’, it didn’t really feel like we were part of a scene.
“It gave us a bit of a chip on our shoulder and we felt like outsiders, but we just focused on doing our own thing. We also knew that we couldn’t recapture the magic of breakout songs like ‘Undercover Martyn’ and ‘What You Know’, so we’ve always chased doing something new. I hope people don’t just see us as that band from 2010.”
He added: “When we wrote ‘Tourist History’, we didn’t really know what we were supposed to be doing and no one was ever meant to hear it beyond our friends and whoever turned up at our gigs at Belfast pubs. Once you have some success though and a wider audience is listening, that’s when the pressure comes in.”
Two Door Cinema Club have released five LPs in total, their latest being 2022’s ‘Keep On Smiling’. They have since shared the singles ‘Sure Enough’ (2023) and ‘Happy Customers’ (2024).
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