Underground upcoming band playing bewitching electro-pop. Their song'Flaws' has become quite the Youtube hit, spawning loads of covers. Bastille began as an alternative identity for Dan Smith and as a vehicle for his numerous ideas. Dan went on to further the Bastille project as a four piece live band and sold out London's Barfly, 93 Feet East and Underbelly at the end of 2011. Why Bastille? You could say Dan chose it because it connotes revolution and change, but really
it's just because his birthday falls on Bastille Day and he wanted something neutral yet evocative enough to describe his rhythmically and melodically inventive pop music. And, as he says, "It's anonymous and it allows me the freedom to do whatever I want. " Oh, and because he didn't want to trade as Dan Smith: troubadour.