{"id":11203,"date":"2012-09-17T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=11203"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:47:51","slug":"new-noise-bastille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/17\/new-noise-bastille\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE: Bastille"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh from a rapturously-received performance at Reading festival and looking ahead to a sold-out headline show at London\u2019s KOKO, Bastille\u2019s Dan Smith takes time out of his busy schedule to chat with Wonderland<\/em> about his love of David Lynch films, Regina Spektor idolatry, and getting over stage fright.<\/p>\n

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How did Bastille come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d been producing and writing some songs in my room for a couple of years, some that I wanted to put out. But I didn\u2019t want it to be as \u2018me\u2019. So I came up with the name Bastille, and was taking the songs to my friend and working them out to play live. In January of last year I made a video from clips that I cut together from a film by Terence Malick called Badlands, for a song of ours called Flaws<\/a>. Then in April, we started gigging, released Flaws as a single on an indie label. It\u2019s just been kind of\u2026 going from there, really.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve previously spoken of being somewhat of a \u2018reluctant musician\u2019 \u2013 is this still the case?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The side of music that I really enjoy is writing. It\u2019s where Bastille started. It\u2019s definitely where I feel most comfortable. Before Bastille\u2019s first gig – when I\u2019d been playing by myself – I\u2019d been sitting behind a piano, using a loop pedal. For me personally, it was quite a big deal, standing at the front of a stage and not being behind an instrument. But I guess we\u2019ve been really lucky \u2013 since we started out, our audience has grown and grown, so we\u2019ve always been fortunate enough to have at least some sort of a crowd who knew our songs \u2013 which has baffled me – but it\u2019s been amazing. It\u2019s got to the point now where, I really enjoy playing live and I never thought I would.<\/p>\n

If you could form a musical supergroup, who would it include?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would have SBTRKT doing the production. I would have Laura Marling on backing vocals. I would have Kanye do a guest verse\u2026 Jay-Z, the Watch the Throne guys together. God, I\u2019ve got no idea\u2026 I would have a choir of all the singers I love!<\/p>\n