TVD Live Shots: Two Door Cinema Club with Joywave on the Riviera Theatre, 3/7

Two Door Cinema Club offered out the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on Thursday, March seventh in assist of their 2022 album Keep On Smiling. Joywave was introduced alongside to offer assist for this leg of the tour.

Fresh off the discharge of their new single “Brain Damage,” Joywave stormed the stage to an viewers filled with followers dancing alongside to their catchy tracks. Looking into the group, you see attendees immediately begin bobbing their heads, whipping their hair, and letting their palms fly up. Some followers have even placed on the tie-dyed shirts that they freshly bought on the merch desk. Starting off their set with the dance heavy “Somebody New,” Joywave immediately proves that they’re right here for a very good time. Towards the latter half of their set, they announce that they are going to be again in Chicago on a headlining tour in September, and tickets go on sale in May.

Two Door Cinema Club was up subsequent. With riffs that make it really feel prefer it’s summer time, it’s laborious to not dance round and have a carefree temper whereas their set goes on. They open their set with a observe off their most up-to-date album, adopted by a observe from their first album. They play this backwards and forwards by their total set, mixing in previous with the brand new, completely balancing their physique of labor for all to take pleasure in. They even carried out their lately launched single, “Happy Customers,” for the primary time dwell, which was promptly adopted by deep reduce “Costume Party.” Both tracks elicited a constructive response from the group, with many attendees attempting to push ahead so they may get even nearer to their favourite band.

They saved their hottest songs for final, taking part in crowd favorites “Cigarettes In the Theatre,” “Sun,” and “What You Know” on the tail finish of their set. The crowd was overflowing with pleasure, screaming louder than the band at some factors. Bassist Kevin Baird commented that this crowd was the loudest that they had on their tour.

The second leg of this tour begins mid-May, and so they lately introduced one other US tour that can happen July-September. Tickets are on sale now.