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If technology advanced to the stage that dreams and thoughts could be examined, Bastille's relentlessly creative leader Dan Smith would make a fascinating test subject. “Sometimes it can be slightly like a pathology, having all these songs in your head all the time,” the Bastille frontman tells The FADER over Zoom.

Damon Albarn and Bastille are among the leading names who have been announced for the BRITs Week 2022 gig series.The London shows will take place around the staging of next year’s BRIT Awards, which will be held at The O2 in London on February 8.BRITs Week presented by Mastercard for War Child will kick off on February 1 with Anne-Marie performing at Lafayette, before Bastille play at Earth Theatre on February 2.Albarn will close the gig series – which will also feature the likes of Joy Crookes, Maisie Peters, Becky Hill, Mimi Webb and Craig David – with a show at the Troxy in London on February 20.Further shows for BRITS Week 2022 are set to be announced next month – you can see the current line-up below.Proceeds from the shows will go

Bastille and Enter Shikari set to perform.The Revive Live campaign was launched last summer in a bid to help UK grassroots venues survive post-coronavirus.

Bastille have announced a string of tour dates across the UK, as well as two European dates, in support of their recently announced fourth album.The band revealed details of new record ‘Give Me The Future’ last week (October 19), set to arrive on February 4, 2022 and described as “a tribute to humanity in a tech age” that “reflects on the strangeness of living through times that can feel like science fiction.”Speaking about the forthcoming tour dates in a new statement, Bastille singer Dan Smith said: “We’re all massively excited to head out on tour with this new album that we love.“After everything that’s happened over the last couple of years, we’re buzzing to play for everyone at these brilliant venues and can’t wait to have some fun

Bastille have announced the release of a brand new album called ‘Give Me The Future’ – listen to band’s latest single ‘No Bad Days’ below.The band’s fourth studio album, which is set to arrive on February 4, 2022, is “a tribute to humanity in a tech age and reflects on the strangeness of living through times that can feel like science fiction.”Exploring both the opportunities of new technology and the dark side of lives lived online, the idea for the album – which includes a spoken word track featuring Riz Ahmed – was conceived pre-pandemic but took on a new life during lockdown, according to frontman Dan Smith.“Working on these songs in such an apocalyptic period, with everyone stuck at home, glued to screens, fed into the feeling that

Bastille have shared a new track called ‘Thelma + Louise’ – you can listen to it below.The song was premiered by Yungblud as the Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1’s ‘Future Sounds’ show tonight (August 18).Frontman Dan Smith explained that he penned “the bones of” the new single over Zoom during lockdown along with two other tracks, with all three set to appear on Bastille’s next album.He went on to speak of the inspiration from the “classic” 1991 film of the same name.

Latitude festival will be able to get their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine at a medical bus parked on site.Those who are yet to receive their second dose of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine will be able to drop in for a jab provided they have waited eight weeks since their first.The bus in the Village area is open until Sunday (July 25).

Latitude Festival, the UK’s first major festival to be held following ‘freedom day’.The 35,000-capacity event, set to be headlined by Bastille, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wolf Alice and The Chemical Brothers, had already been given the green light before the lifting of COVID restrictions as festival organiser Melvin Benn announced in June it was part of the government’s Event Research Programme (ERP).In order to gain entry to the festival, which runs until Sunday (July 25), ticketholders will be asked for proof of a negative lateral flow test taken within 48 hours of arrival at the festival, or proof of full vaccination with the second dose having been received at least 14 days prior to the first day of attending the festival. As a test event, it

Bastille have shared a new track called ‘Give Me The Future’ – you can listen to it below.Dan Smith and co.