I said, “I’ll be home for next year, darling, Saying, I’ll be home for next year, darling. Saying, “I’ll be home for next year, darling. But I think the fans can lose sight of the fact that with great things come great responsibility. People think being a rock star is the greatest thing in the world and it is in many respects the greatest job in the world. In that sense, ‘Next Year’ feels to me as the love letter, the Christmas card Alex, Sam, and Kevin write in their heads every time they have to be away from those they love. These people, the silent, faraway, never wavering cheerleaders of these boys who I know work so hard for their dream of becoming rock stars. But I wish those fans would stop and think for a moment who are they spending time away from all year long. This is where my thoughts of my father kicked in with the meaning of their song ‘Next Year’, and with that, the feelings I had when I had first heard the song became all the stronger.įans may complain that these three boys from Bangor have ruined their summer by not appearing at a music festival. But this lack of face time hasn’t changed my support of them I know they appreciate me for what I’ve done for them as much as I’ve appreciated the music they’ve given to this world. What did you want them to do, wave a magic wand and be transported by fairy dust to your town?īecause of their star status, I haven’t actually talked to Two Door in person in a long while. I saw the terrible complaints from supposed fans upset with them pulling out from Latitude, and I reacted with same disgust as I had when fans in Europe hit out at them when they cancelled a string of dates in I believe Italy because they physically could not get to their next show because the roads had been blocked by a blizzard and it was too treacherous to travel. We’d been writing about them for a while on There Goes the Fear and my cup runneth over with the prospect of seeing them live.įour years later, I sometimes think it is insane that those three boys from Northern Ireland, so pleased to meet me and recognize me from my business card, are now huge stars with fans all over the world. I met the lads in April 2010, upon their first visit to Washington they opened for Phoenix, their American labelmates on Glassnote Records. The reason for the cancellation is less important for the purpose of this analysis, though it struck me as intensely personal: singer/guitarist Alex Trimble collapsed on their way to the airport and needed immediate medical attention for “a chronic stomach complaint”. I gave more serious thought to my father when my friends Two Door Cinema Club had to cancel their headline set at Latitude 2 weekends ago and a later planned appearance in Splendour in the Grass in Australia this past weekend. Maybe that’s where my editing experience began? I know these things, because even at a young age, with English as his second language, he’d ask me to review his slides and notes, making sure he was grammatically correct. I know a lot of this was unavoidable: he often had to go out into the field for one or another of his many expeditions, or he’d be called away to a foreign land for a scientific meeting or conference. My father was a scientist and he was away a lot when I was a child. Words by: going to guess Alex Trimble, as I’ve never asked them who in their band writes the lyrics Where to find it: ‘Beacon’ (2012, Kitsune, Glassnote )
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