Bastille (band)

Bastille (stylised as BΔSTILLE) are an English pop rock band formed in 2010. The group began as a solo project by lead vocalist Dan Smith, but later expanded to include keyboardist Kyle Simmons, bassist and guitarist Will Farquarson and drummer Chris "Woody" Wood.[1][2] The name of the band derives from Bastille Day, which is celebrated on 14 July, Smith's birthday.[3]

Bastille
Bastille in 2013: Kyle Simmons, Chris Woody, Will Farquarson and Dan Smith (left to right)
Background information
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Years active2010–present
Labels
Associated acts
Websitebastillebastille.com
Members
  • Dan Smith
  • Kyle Simmons
  • Will Farquarson
  • Chris "Woody" Wood

After an independently released debut single and a self-released EP, the band signed to Virgin Records.[4] Their first studio album, Bad Blood, was released in March 2013 and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and included the hit single "Pompeii" which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. The band was nominated for four Brit Awards at the 2014 ceremony, winning the British Breakthrough Act.[5] As of February 2019, Bastille have sold over nine million records worldwide.[6][7]

History

Formation and early releases (2010–2011)

Bastille logo

Bastille debuted in July 2010 with their limited edition 7" single that featured the two tracks "Flaws" and "Icarus". Released through London-based independent record label Young & Lost Club, only 300 copies were pressed.[8] One of the copies found its way into the hands of Alex Baker, presenter of the unsigned/independent artists radio show on Kerrang! Radio. Baker started to support Bastille on air, and the band began to find an audience. They released the EP Laura Palmer themselves later in 2011.[9] After debuting further tracks online through sites such as YouTube and MySpace, the band's audience started to grow.[10] In December 2011 Smith signed a contract with Virgin Records.[4] The group subsequently secured a few support slots and later performed at major UK festivals including Glastonbury, the Isle of Wight, Redfest, Reading and Leeds Festival and Blissfields. The band also recorded and released two parts of their mix-tape titled Other People's Heartache for free.[10]

Bad Blood and All This Bad Blood (2012–2015)

Bastille in concert at Queens' College May Ball, 2013

On 27 April 2012, their first official single release, "Overjoyed", was released through Virgin Records, as confirmed by EMI on 1 May 2012.[11] Following its video premiere in November 2011, popular music publication, Q Magazine introduced the track as its 'Track of the Day' for 7 March 2012.[12] The second single to be released from the upcoming debut studio album, Bad Blood, was the eponymous track, "Bad Blood". An accompanying video for the single was released on the band's official VEVO channel on 29 June 2012, and digitally through Virgin Records on 20 August 2012. Bastille was also named 'New Band of the Day' by British newspaper The Guardian in July 2012.[13] The song charted moderately at number 90 in the United Kingdom and saw the group's first entry into the chart. In August 2012 the band performed at UK festivals like Reading and Leeds, as well as supporting British singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé. They later played a small headlining tour, titled 'Flaws Tour' in October 2012, with Swiss Lips as their support act. in November 2012, the band performed at Hong Kong's Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival, their first outside of Europe. Their third single, a re-release of their first 7" non-album single "Flaws", was a commercial success, earning the group their first position in the UK Top 40, debuting at number-twenty-one.

Dan Smith at Provinssirock festival 2013 in Seinäjoki, Finland

In February 2013, Bastille confirmed the release of the fourth single to be taken from Bad Blood, "Pompeii". The song was positively reviewed by critics, reaching number two in the United Kingdom and number five in the US. Their debut album Bad Blood was released on 4 March 2013, and placed at number one in the UK Albums Chart. On 11 March, Bastille was announced to be playing at the Reading and Leeds Festival in August 2013.[14] In an interview with Digital Spy in March 2013, "Laura Palmer" was revealed to be the fifth single to be released from the album, by lead vocalist, Dan Smith.[15] It was released on 3 June 2013, and an accompanying video for the track premiered through the band's official VEVO page on 12 April 2013.[16] The group joined English rock band Muse as a supporting act on their The 2nd Law Tour in May 2013 and did so again in June 2013.[17] In May 2013, Bastille released their Haunt EP in the US via iTunes. On Saturday 6 July the band headlined their first UK summer music festival at Blissfields.[18] Smith was quoted as saying "We're massively excited about our first ever headline slot at a festival. Particularly because we love Blissfields so much, and because they've been so supportive to us over the last couple of years." The performance coincided with the band appearing on the cover of a national music publication, Notion magazine, for the first time. On 24 August 2013, "Things We Lost in the Fire" was released as the sixth single from the band's debut album.[19] A music video for the song was shot in Vilnius and Kėdainiai, Lithuania.[20] On 3 September 2013, Bastille released their Bad Blood album in the US via iTunes.

On 9 October 2013 Bastille released a new single, "Of the Night", a mash-up of the songs "The Rhythm of the Night" by Corona and "Rhythm Is a Dancer" by Snap!. The single debuted at number two on UK Singles Chart. The song was promoting All This Bad Blood, a reissue of the band's debut album, released on 25 November 2013. In January 2014 Will Farquarson said in an interview with Billboard magazine that the band had already started to work on its second album in between tour dates.[21] The band performed on Saturday Night Live on 25 January 2014. On 4 February 2014 Bastille won the BRIT Award for Best Breakthrough Act and performed a remixed version of "Pompeii" with Rudimental and their song "Waiting All Night" at the ceremony. Two hours after their appearance, sales of Bad Blood were up by 132% to give them a second week at number one in the UK album chart and "Pompeii" had climbed 29 places in the singles.[22] On 1 April 2014 the Official Charts Company announced that Bad Blood was the biggest selling digital album of 2013, and Number 11 in the over-all Official Artist Albums Top 40 of 2013.[23] Also in April 2014, the band performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. On 31 May 2014, the band took part in the Annual KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, California, performing among other bands including The Neighbourhood and Fall Out Boy. On 13 July 2014, Bastille played at T in the Park. In September 2014 they released the last single from Bad Blood, "Oblivion". The Bad Blood Tour finished in 2014.[24] They were part of the supergroup Band Aid 30 whose version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was released in November and featured other artists such as One Direction and Ed Sheeran. All proceeds of the song went towards helping the 2014 Ebola crisis.[25] It became the band's first UK #1.

VS., Wild World (2014–2017)

Dan Smith (2015)

In late 2013 Bastille began to play new songs called "Blame" and "Campus". Another song called "Oil On Water" was played during sound-check and leaked online. They began proper work on the album in 2014,[26] and planned to start recording it in September.[27] Farquarson said that they had "16 or 17 tracks" demoed already for the album. He also said “We’re going into the studio in September to record; hopefully by then we’ll have 20 or maybe more. I think it’s always better to have more material and whittle it down. Our producer has gone on tour with us, so we’ve been doing things on our days off and during sound-checks."[27][28] Dan Smith said the album will include more guitars saying "we didn't have much of that on the first album and it may not end up on it but it would be quite interesting to try it out. We feel quite free. If we want to go quite electronic then we can and if we want to go rockier and indie then we can."[28] On 21 October 2014 Bastille announced their third mixtape, VS. (Other People's Heartache, Pt.III) with the release of their song "Torn Apart", featuring the artist's Grades and Lizzo, on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. They also wrote and recorded the song "The Driver" for the re-score of the film Drive which was released a week later and also featured on the mixtape. VS. (Other People's Heartache, Pt.III) was released on 8 December 2014 and featured the Gemma Sharples Quartet, Haim, MNEK, Tyde, Rationale, Lizzo, Grades, Angel Haze, F*U*G*Z, Braque, Rag'n'Bone Man, and Skunk Anansie. In November 2014, Bastille was featured on the Band Aid 30 version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?".[25] They were nominated for Best New Artist at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards,[29] but lost out to Sam Smith.[30]

In 2015, Bastille recruited a new touring member, Charlie Barnes.[31] On 22 September 2015, Bastille released an independent single called "Hangin'". It was announced via Facebook that their second album would be released in 2016. Also, during that summer, the band debuted two new songs live: "Grip" and "Snakes".[32] In April 2016, the band debuted a new song entitled "The Currents".[33] On 2 June 2016, the band uploaded a trailer including an excerpt from the then-unreleased song Two Evils announcing the name of the album to be Wild World.[34] On 9 June, it was announced that the band's new single, "Good Grief", would be released on 16 June 2016. On 16 June 2016, Annie Mac debuted "Good Grief" on her BBC Radio 1 show as the "hottest record in the world." The track was immediately released to radio, streaming services, and for purchase following the debut.[35] In an interview with Mac following the song's premiere, Dan Smith revealed that their second album would "go through a variety of sounds, but it is very much us [Bastille]." On 24 June 2016, Bastille performed the songs "Good Grief" and "Two Evils" live for the first time at Glastonbury Festival as part of their set on the Other Stage.[36] On 30 June 2016, Bastille announced the release of the second LP Wild World and embarked on their Wild Wild World Tour in July.[37] Released on 9 September, the album reached the top of the mid-week sales chart,[38] while the band set up pop-up shops in London, New York and Los Angeles to promote the release.[39] On 16 September, it was confirmed that Wild World had reached #1 on both the U.K. and Scottish album charts.[40] The album won "Best Album" at the 2017 NME Awards.[41] On World Record Store Day 2017, the band released an original song titled "Comfort of Strangers."

The band was part of the 'Artists for Grenfell' charity single. Including other artists such as Stormzy and Rita Ora, the cover of the Simon & Garfunkel song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was released on 21 June 2017 to raise money for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. It became the band's second UK #1.[42]

Doom Days and Other People's Heartache, Pt. IV (2018–2020)

Bastille performing at the 2019 Isle of Wight Festival

The band announced their third studio album, which was released on 14 June 2019.[43] Speaking to NME, Smith said "We never really stop writing and recording, but I can confirm we spent a lot of this year writing our third album."[44] On 1 September 2017, the band headlined the annual Pilton Party[45][46] Held at Pilton Worthy Farm, home of Glastonbury Festival. On 23 November 2017, Craig David and Bastille released "I Know You,” the second single from David's album, The Time Is Now. The single peaked at number 5 in 2018.[47]

On 9 May 2018, "Quarter Past Midnight", the first single from the group's third album Doom Days was aired on BBC Radio 1.[48]

On 17 August 2018, Bastille and Marshmello released their single "Happier", which reached a high of 2 on the UK Official Charts in October 2018 and the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2019.[49][50][51]

In early December 2018, the band announced a release date of 6 December 2018 for their single "Grip" which features EDM duo Seeb. Also released was "Other People's Heartache, Pt IV" on 7 December 2018 which featured the likes of Craig David, Jacob Banks, James Arthur, Kianja, Lily Moore, Moss Kena, Rationale, Swarmz, and S-X.[52][53][54] A limited edition Record Store Day 2019 version of the mixtape was released in independent record shops on 13 April 2019.

On 25 April 2019, Bastille released the second single and title track from their third album Doom Days. On 2 May 2019, the third single from the album, "Joy", was premiered on Scott Mills' show on BBC Radio 1.[55] A fourth single, "Those Nights", was released on 4 June 2019 and was premiered on Beats 1 with Zane Lowe.

On 17 May 2019, Bastille was featured on American pop duo FRENSHIP's song titled "Won't Let You Go" on their debut album Vacation.

On 14 June 2019, the band released their third album Doom Days.[56][57] It reached the top 5 in both the UK and USA.[58] The band made their "Pyramid Stage" debut at Glastonbury on 28 June 2019 as part of their promotion of the album. On 20 September 2019, they released 'Million Pieces' from the Doom Days album at the Abbey Road studios with The Chamber Orchestra of London, which was one of the new songs on the extended album Doom Days (This Got Out Of Hand).[59][60] A music video for the band's song "Bad Decisions" was released on 25 September 2019.[61] The fifth single from Doom Days, "Another Place", was released on 25 October 2019 with Canadian singer Alessia Cara, as a rework of the original song on the album, with the second verse being changed to one written by Cara.[62] On 6 December 2019, an extended version of the album was released with 11 new songs titled Doom Days (This Got Out Of Hand).[63]

The band was one of 23 artists to feature on the Live Lounge Allstars cover of the Foo Fighters song "Times Like These" to help raise funds for the COVID-19 pandemic. The song was released on 23 April 2020, and 8 days later, became the band's third UK #1 single.[64] On 30 July 2020, Bastille released a new song with Graham Coxon titled "What You Gonna Do???".[65] All This Bad Blood was released as a limited edition 2LP for Record Store Day 2020, for the first time on 29 August 2020.[66] On 22 September 2020, the band released a new song titled "Survivin'" which premiered on Apple Music's Zane Lowe Show.[67] "What You Gonna Do???" and "Survivin'" were accompanied by another single "Goosebumps" on the EP, Goosebumps EP, released on 4 December 2020.[68] "Goosebumps" was released on the same day and features Kenny Beats.[69]

ReOrchestrated (2021–present)

The band released an ReOrchestrated version of their song "Warmth" from their second album Wild World as an Amazon Music exclusive on 15 January 2021.[70] The audio was taken from their ReOrchestrated live show from the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg from 4 January 2020.[71]

Musical style

Bastille's musical style has been described as indie pop[72] alternative rock,[73] synth-pop,[74] electropop,[75] and pop rock.[76]

Media

TV

Bastille's music has been used on the TV soap Hollyoaks with one week in the early summer of 2012 focused on Bastille's song "Laura Palmer". Their music also has been on: Made in Chelsea and Waterloo Road.[77] The song "Oblivion" was featured in season 4 episode 9 of The Vampire Diaries in December 2012.[78] "Things We Lost in the Fire" was used for the 2014 autumn trailer for English soap opera EastEnders. They can also be heard on Teen Wolf and on the fourth episode of How to Get Away with Murder with the Naughty Boy collaboration "No One's Here to Sleep".[79] The song "Haunt" can be heard in the season 1 finale of the TV series Finding Carter.

In August 2017, the band released a version of the Green Day song "Basket Case" for the Peter Serafinowicz series The Tick.[80]

Film

Their song "Pompeii" is featured in the 2014 movie, Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

The band's song "The Driver" was used in the re-scored soundtrack of the 2011 film Drive produced for the BBC by Zane Lowe for its October 2014 TV broadcast.[81] The band also featured on the Kill Your Friends (2015) soundtrack with a cover of the Sugababes debut single "Overload". On 9 November 2017, the band released a music video for “World Gone Mad”, a song for the Netflix movie Bright.[82]

Video games

Their song "Pompeii" is featured in First Touch game, First Touch Soccer 15, the Konami game Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 and a remix of the song is featured in Need for Speed Rivals. The band's music has appeared in the FIFA video games three times: "Weight of Living, Pt. II" in FIFA 13, "Hangin'" in FIFA 16 and "Send Them Off!" in FIFA 17.

Bastille's music has also been featured in the simulation game The Sims 3 in the Supernatural DLC, specifically the song "Laura Palmer" which is dubbed over in the video game's language of Simlish.

Advertisements

In 2019, a cover of "Can't Fight This Feeling" was recorded by the band for the John Lewis and Waitrose Christmas advert.[83][84]

The band performed "Pompeii" at Birmingham New Street railway station for a TV advert for EE in November 2019.[85] The gig was a world first as it was streamed via 5G and captured in augmented reality. The advert was released on 13 January 2020.

Television appearances

Singles promotion

Bastille performed "Pompeii" on The Jonathan Ross Show (2013). They also went on to play the song on Conan, making their American TV debut (2013),[86] The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2013) and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2013). They performed "Pompeii" along with "Oblivion" on Saturday Night Live (2014).[87] They performed "Of the Night" on Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2013).[88] They returned to The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2014 to perform "Flaws". They performed "Bad Blood" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2013), The Late Show with David Letterman (2014), Conan (2014) and Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014). They performed "Good Grief" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2016), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2016), Alan Carr's Happy Hour and RTL Late Night (2016). They performed "Blame" on Late Night with Seth Meyers (2017) and The Late Late Show Starring James Corden (2017). Alongside Craig David, Dan Smith performed "I Know You" alone on Sounds Like Friday Night (2017), before the rest of the band joined them to perform the song at the semi-final of the 15th series of Strictly Come Dancing (2017). The band made their fourth appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2018 when they performed "Quarter Past Midnight". Along with Marshmello, Smith performed their collaboration, "Happier", on Good Morning America (2018)[89] and then at the final of the 15th season of The Voice with the entire band (2018). They performed "Joy" on The Voice van Vlaanderen (2019) and The Graham Norton Show (2019).

Other live performances

The band have performed on Sunday Brunch (2013, 2016 and 2019). They performed at the New Year's Eve Party 2015 at Hollywood, which was broadcast on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, whilst they headlined the 2019 New Year's Eve Party. The band performed as one of the summer concert lineup for The TODAY Show (2016).[90] They performed their song "Fake It" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2016). They performed "World Gone Mad" at the final of the 13th season of The Voice with contestant Noah Mac (2017). The band performed on Good Morning America as part of the GMA Summer Concert Series (2019). The band performed "Bad Decisions" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[91] Their mashup of Joy Crookes' song "Anyone But Me" and Easy Life's song "Nightmares", was shown on Channel 4 as part of highlights from Barclaycard Share The Stage highlights (2020).[92][93]

Award ceremonies

The band performed "Pompeii" at the Brit Awards (2014) as part of a mashup with Ella Eyre and Rudimental with their song "Waiting All Night". They also performed the song at the iHeartRadio Music Awards (2014). They performed "Happier" at the MTV EMAs (2018) as part of a collaboration with Marshmello and Anne-Marie, who sang their song "Friends".[94]

Game of Thrones

In 2017, all members of the band, and tour manager Dick Meredith, featured as extras in the final episode of season 7 of Game of Thrones.[95] Simmons and Meredith made the cut, whereas Smith, Wood, and Farquarson were cut out.

Band members

Current members

  • Dan Smith – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar (2010–present)
  • Kyle Simmons – piano, keyboards, backing vocals, bass (2010–present)
  • Will Farquarson – guitar, bass, backing vocals, piano, keyboards (2010–present)
  • Chris "Woody" Wood – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2010–present)

Touring members

  • Charlie Barnes – guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, percussion, bass (2015–present)
  • John 'Rittipo' Moore – saxophone (2020–present)

Discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

Bastille have won several music awards and landed many nominations, including ones for Brit Awards, Billboard Music Awards, World Music Awards, and Grammy Awards.[6]

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Preceded by
Drake
Saturday Night Live musical guest
25 January 2014
Succeeded by
Imagine Dragons
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