The Ticket Gig of the Week

Looking like Ivy League students and performing like wound-up toys on a diet of Ever Ready batteries and vitamin pills, Bangor…

Looking like Ivy League students and performing like wound-up toys on a diet of Ever Ready batteries and vitamin pills, Bangor's Two Door Cinema Club played two sold-out gigs at Dublin's Olympia last weekend. To say the gig was a kind of aural orgasm from start to finish (lasting an unprecedented 50 minutes, too!) is actually not too much of an understatement; it is, however, more prosaic to say that this gig (we went to the Friday show) was a triumph of substance over hype. Cracking songs. A 50-minute gig. Perfect. Words: Tony Clayton-Lea Photograph: Patrick O'Leary