Bastille (band)

Bastille
(left to right: Kyle Simmons, Christopher Wood, Will Farquarson and Dan Smith)
General information
Genre (s)	Indie rock , indie pop , pop rock , alternative rock
founding	2010
Website	www.bastillebastille.com
Founding members
singing	Daniel "Dan" Campbell Smith
Keyboard	Kyle Jonathan Simmons
bass	William "Will" Farquarson
Drums , backing vocals	Christopher "Woody" Wood

Bastille ( spelling BΔSTILLE ) is a four-piece British indie rock band from south London .

Band history

Bastille was originally a solo project of the singer-songwriter Dan Smith , which he expanded into a band with three friends in 2010. The band is named after July 14th, as lead singer Dan Smith's birthday is on that day. The day is celebrated in France as a national holiday in memory of the storming of the Bastille . The band initially published their music in the form of mixtapes on the Internet, with film fan Smith also editing film scenes for the videos, regardless of copyright. The attention they gained helped them to perform at festivals like the one in Glastonbury and eventually to a recording deal with an indie label. They then toured the UK, the United States and South Africa .

The vinyl debut single with the songs Flaws and Icarus was released in July 2011. This was followed by the Laura Palmer EP as an homage to the character of the same name from the TV series Twin Peaks . The song Overjoyed included on it became their first release in 2012 after being signed by EMI / Virgin . With the re-release of Flaws as a regular single and download, they reached number 21 in the UK charts in autumn 2012 . In February 2013, Bastille released their fourth single Pompeii , which was a huge hit. It landed at number 2 in the UK charts and also placed at number 6 in the German charts .

Her debut album Bad Blood reached number 1 in the UK charts a week after its release . The second album Wild World was released in September 2016 .

Members

• Daniel "Dan" Campbell Smith (born July 14, 1986 ) - vocals , studied English literature at the University of Leeds
• Kyle Jonathan Simmons (born February 5, 1988 ) - Keyboard , is used in the band as an "all-rounder" because he masters many different musical instruments. He was the last to join the band after frontman Smith invited him to a mutual friend's party. Although Simmons also attended the University of Leeds , he and Dan Smith only met later through mutual friends
• William "Will" Farquarson (born September 22, 1983 ) - bass
• Christopher "Woody" Wood (born July 6, 1985 ) - drums and background vocals , previously worked as a drum teacher, among other things
• Charlie Barnes - tour member - keyboard , electric guitar , percussion , backing vocal

Others

Of the Night , released in 2013, is a mashup of Corona's The Rhythm of the Night and Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap! .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Bad Blood / All This Bad Blood	DE23 platinum (52 weeks)DE	AT31 platinum (28 weeks)AT	CH15 (37 weeks) CH	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (127 weeks)UK	US11 platinum (86 weeks)US	First published: March 4, 2013
2016	Wild World	DE6 (6 weeks) DE	AT5 (3 weeks) AT	CH5 (5 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (24 weeks)UK	US4 (7 weeks) US	First published: September 9, 2016
2019	Doom Days	DE9 (3 weeks) DE	AT10 (2 weeks) AT	CH8 (4 weeks) CH	UK4th silver (9 weeks)UK	US5 (2 weeks) US	First published: June 14, 2019

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Haunt	-	-	-	-	US104 (2 weeks) US	First published: May 28, 2013

More EPs

• 2011: Laura Palmer (first published November 14, 2011)
• 2012: iTunes Festival: London 2012 (first published September 11, 2012)
• 2013: iTunes Festival: London 2013 (first published September 27, 2013)
• 2014: Live in Mexico City 2014 (first published in 2014)
• 2014: Oblivion (First published: 2014)
• 2017: Spotify Live (Initial release: 2017)
• 2017: Apple Music Festival: London 2016 (First released May 26, 2017)

Mix tapes

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	VS. (Other People's Heartache, Pt. III)	-	-	-	UK45 (2 weeks) UK	US87 (1 week) US	First published: December 5, 2014

More mix tapes

• 2012: Other People's Heartache (first published February 2012)
• 2012: Other People's Heartache, Pt. 2 (first published December 2012)
• 2018: Other People's Heartache, Pt. 4 (first published December 7, 2018)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2012	Flaws Bad Blood	-	-	-	UK21st silver (19 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: October 19, 2012
2013	Pompeii Bad Blood	DE6th × 3 Triple gold (41 weeks)DE	AT3 (30 weeks) AT	CH5 gold (28 weeks)CH	UK2 × 4 Quadruple platinum (103 weeks)UK	US5 × 6 Six-fold platinum (53 weeks)US	First published: February 22, 2013
	Laura Palmer Bad Blood	-	-	-	UK42 silver (10 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 3, 2013
	Things We Lost in the Fire Bad Blood	DE18th gold (32 weeks)DE	AT18 (19 weeks) AT	CH53 (8 weeks) CH	UK28 gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: August 12, 2013
	Of the Night All This Bad Blood	DE10 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT15 (17 weeks) AT	CH19 (17 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (20 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 18, 2013
2014	Bad Blood Bad Blood	-	-	-	UK90 silver (1 week)UK	US95 gold (1 week)US	First published: February 20, 2014
	Oblivion Bad Blood	-	-	-	UK82 silver (1 week)UK	-	First published: September 5, 2014
2016	Good Grief Wild World	DE46 gold (16 weeks)DE	AT33 (20 weeks) AT	-	UK13 platinum (23 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 16, 2016
	Send Them Off! Wild World	-	-	-	UK76 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 2, 2016
2018	Quarter Past Midnight Doom Days	-	-	-	UK65 silver (1 week)UK	-	First published: May 9, 2018
	Happier	DE9 platinum (38 weeks)DE	AT5 gold (37 weeks)AT	CH10 (44 weeks) CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (44 weeks)UK	US2 × 6 Six-fold platinum (52 weeks)US	Initial Publication: August 17, 2018 Sales: 15,000,000; with marshmello
2019	Doom Days Doom Days	-	-	-	UK65 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 25, 2019
	Joy Doom Days	-	-	-	UK46 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 2, 2019
	Can't Fight This Feeling single track	-	-	-	UK39 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 19, 2019 feat. London Contemporary Orchestra
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	Bad News Oblivion	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 5, 2014
	Pompeii / Waiting All Night (LIVE)	-	-	-	UK21 (3 weeks) UK	-	First release: February 19, 2014 with Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre
2016	Fake It Wild World	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK	-	First published: July 27, 2016
2017	World Gone Mad Bright (OST)	-	-	CH78 (1 week) CH	UK66 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 10, 2017

More singles

• 2012: Overjoyed
• 2014: Torn Apart (feat.Grades)
• 2016: Blame
• 2017: Glory
• 2018: Grip (with SeeB )
• 2019: Those Nights
• 2019: Another Place (with Alessia Cara )
• 2019: Admit Defeat
• 2020: What You Gonna Do ??? (feat. Graham Coxon )

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	I Know You The Time Is Now	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	CH65 (1 week) CH	UK5 platinum (20 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 24th, 2017 Craig David feat. Bastille

Further guest contributions

• 2013: No One's Here to Sleep ( Naughty Boy feat.Bastille)
• 2014: Do They Know It's Christmas? (as part of Band Aid 30 )
• 2017: Bridge over Troubled Water (as part of Artists for Grenfell)

Awards for music sales

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Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	11 × platinum11	805,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	115,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	100,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	1,550,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	platinum1	200,000	snepmusique.com
Ireland (IRMA)	-	gold1	-	7,500	irishcharts.ie
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × gold4th	6 × platinum6th	350,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	9 × platinum9	760,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	-	2 × platinum2	120,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	3 × platinum3	75,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	30,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	platinum1	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	-	2 × platinum2	20,000	Individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	8 × platinum8th	360,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	13 × platinum13	14,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	9 × silver9	3 × gold3	12 × platinum12	8,860,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	9 × silver9	24 × gold24	79 × platinum79

swell

1. ↑ Bonedo Podcast - Interview with Bastille .
2. ↑ Bastille and Eric Prydz join Virgin Records ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EMI, December 1, 2011  
3. ↑ https://genius.com/albums/Bastille/Wild-world
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
5. ↑ @marshmellomusic: Post on Instagram

Web links

Commons : Bastille  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Homepage (English)
• Bastille at Allmusic (English)