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on from last time.” The band dominated the alternative music scene with tracks Flaws, Oblivion and Laura Palmer racking up millions of hits on Spotify, but it’s safe to say their sound has certainly developed. “The first album we tried to make really upbeat, it didn’t have any guitar work at all, but with Wild World we have a tonnes of guitar; we’ve even got a crazy superhero themed track with horns in. I guess we’ve just learned to have fun with it, that’s important.” It’s fair to say that Bastille came back with
a bang. The first official single from Wild World, Good Grief is a far cry from the hard hitting Laura Palmer and Bad Blood, it’s a new sound that Bastille haven’t showcased before, and we love it. The video, which features Dan’s severed head, follows in the steps of the band’s innocative music videos. “The guys who made it are collective directors called Nysu, from Spain and they just had these mad ideas. Dan hates being in videos and singing, so he made an off-hand comment saying ‘I’ll do it if I get
to be a severed head in the video,’ and they just said ‘Ok’, so it kind of backfired on him. He ended up filming the video in a green screen suit lying down,” jokes Woody. Earlier this year the band announced their biggest world tour to date, and have already played numerous festivals, including their incredible set at Glastonbury and a slot on the Virgin Media Stage at V Festival. “We treat festivals differently to our own headline shows because you’ve got a percentage of the crowd who are there to see you, and the rest may just be passers by. You have to try and work out a way to make your set interesting and win people over.” But what it all boils down to is their Wild Wild World Tour, which kicks off in Bournemouth on October 28th and heads to the Barclaycard Arena on Tuesday November 8. The last time the band were in the city, they played the Birmingham Library, now known as the O2 Institute, a tiny space in comparison to Barclaycard Arena, which holds more than 15,000 people. “We’re just trying to figure things out for production now,” says Woody. “We’re not going to go the Muse route and have a massive production on stage, but we’re trying to figure out exactly what we’re going to do. We’re two albums in now; on the first tour we were just playing pretty much every song we had and now we can start to mix things up and start to create different sets. But we’re definitely going to step up the production and try make each show really memorable.”
BASTILLE LIVE IN BIRMINGHAM AT BARCLAYCARD ARENA 8 NOVEMBER AFTER YOU | JOJO MOYES | FOYLES £7.99 The sequel to the New York Times biggest selling novel, Me Before You, we rejoin Lou Clark, who finds herself struggling to cope with many unanswered questions. Why doesn’t her apartment feel like home after 18 months? Why is she working in an airport? And, most importantly, will she ever get over the love of her life? One thing that Lou does know is that things have to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?
TWIN ATLANTIC | GLA | SEPTEMBER 9 Following in the footsteps of Glaswegian band Biffy Clyro, alt-rock band Twin Atlantic took the country by storm with the release of their second album, Heart and Soul back in 2014. Best known for tracks Brothers & Sisters, Hold On and Crash Land, Twin Atlantic are back and due to release their third album, GLA. You can catch Twin Atlantic live in Birmingham’s O2 Institute on October 11.
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