Debut album ‘Bad Blood’ charts at Number 1 in the Official Albums Chart
SXSW shows this week, Bastielle’s headline festival shows announced
Band continue sold out UK headline tour in March including two sold out shows at Shepherds Bush Empire
Bastille have clinched the Official Albums Chart Number 1 with debut album Bad Blood. The album had the highest digital share sales for a week one number one album of all time. The band’s new single, Pompeii stormed in to the UK top 40 singles chart last week charting at number 3 and holds this week.
Dan Smith and his band have taken a short break from their current UK tour to play a series of dates at SXSW. They return to the UK next week to continue the tour which includes two sold out shows at Shepherds Bush Empire. In May the band headline the GreatEscape Festival and will feature at most of the summer festivals including another headline slot at Blissfields in July.
As the creative force behind Bastille, much of Dan’s childhood was spent dreaming of being a film editor, a writer or a journalist, any profession in which he could tell a story. Film was an early obsession of Smith’s; a precocious love of horror movies led to an appreciation of Dario Argento and esoteric European cinema. Later, he would be swept into Mulholland Drive and the work of David Lynch, all of which have influenced his music. His song Laura Palmer uses the story of Twin Peaks’ mysterious murder victim, and for a while he even wore his hair in an Eraserheadcut.
In a weird way, thanks to Bastille, Smith is doing exactly what he always intended: not only is he now making films for his songs (and reluctantly appearing in them too; the video for Pompeii being his vision of “the novel ‘I am Legend’ if it were shot by the director of ‘Drive‘”),most of all he’s telling stories.
SXSW
12/3- Latitude British Music Embassy 1.00-1.40am
13/3– Embassy Club Deville 10.00-10.40pm
14/3- Filter – Cedar Street Courtyard 1.00-1.30pm
HEADLINE TOUR
19/3 Sheffield Leadmill SOLD OUT
21/3 Nottingham Rock City SOLD OUT
22/3 Oxford O2 Academy SOLD OUT
23/3 Cardiff Solus SOLD OUT
25/3 Brighton Corn Exchange SOLD OUT
27/3 Bristol O2 Academy SOLD OUT
28/3 London Shepherds Bush Empire SOLD OUT
29/3 London Shepherds Bush Empire SOLD OUT
2/4 Coventry Kasbah SOLD OUT
Festivals
18/5 Great Escape Brighton Dome – HEADLINER
27/5 Festival
6/7 Blissfields – HEADLINER
12/7 Wakestock
14/7 T in the Park
“Bad Blood is an album crafted in one of modern pop’s greatest refineries” *****Artrocker
“There is an awful lot to love about Bad Blood “Drowned in Sound
“Bastille really deliver” BBC Music
“The hype surrounding Bastille is electric”Metro
“The buzz that was a mere murmur is now deafening” Sun
“…feels like so much more than a debut****” Fake DIY
“They are set to conquer ****” Daily Mail
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