- Title: Bastille want new tour to be 'joyous celebration' of last 15 years
- Date: 28th March 2025
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) BASTILLE LEAD VOCALIST, DAN SMITH, ON TICKET TOUTS, SAYING: “Ticket touts, you know, will buy up, will buy up all the tickets, inflate the prices unfairly, and then they will also, like buy up all the space in search engines,so they’re will be, the first like ten things you'll see will be tick
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- Keywords: 2025 BASTILLE DAN SMITH FROM ALL SIDES KYLE SIMMONS MUSIC UK UK ARENA TOUR
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- Story Text: British band Bastille say they want their first UK arena tour in three years to be a "joyous celebration" of their 15 years together.
The foursome, made up of Dan Smith, Kyle Simmons, Will Farquarson and Chris "Woody" Wood, will perform nine shows as part of their "From All Sides - Songs from The First 15 Years" tour, which will kick off in Plymouth on November 6.
There will be stops in Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and Brighton before wrapping up at London's O2 arena on November 18.
On the list are fan favourite songs, deep cuts, music from their mixtapes as well as unplugged moments, Smith and Simmons said told Reuters in an interview on Friday (March 28), adding the shows would be a nod to the group's different phases so far.
"This tour is like our opportunity to kind of bottle the euphoria of one of our festivals sets and show everything we've done... We just want it to be... like a really joyous celebration of everything that we've done," Smith said.
"Nothing's off the cards. It's really interesting to try and build the set,” Simmons added.
First formed in 2010, Bastille shot to global fame with their 2013 hit "Pompeii". They have scored three UK no.1 studio albums, starting with their debut "Bad Blood", and sold more than 13 million records. They are one of the world's most streamed bands, with 2 billion video views.
"From All Sides", for which tickets went sale on Friday, comes after the group took a break from touring last year.
"It's just nice to be able to have the chance, because we took the foot off the gas after sort of 13 years, to be like, ‘Let's have a... a bit of a look back and a bit of a celebration'," Simmons said.
“We're seeing this tour as a bit of a restart... We want to come back playing the songs... brilliantly and reframing them," Smith added.
Bastille will give a tour donation to charity Youth Music's Rescue the Roots campaign to help raise funds for grassroots youth music projects in Britain. According to the charity, 41% of grassroots youth music projects are at risk of closure, a rise of 17% compared to 2024.
"We feel so lucky to get to do this as our job and we have done... for such a long time now. But... it's very tough for new young musicians sort of starting out," Smith said.
Earlier this week, Smith lent his support to the launch of O2's "Stamp It Tout", an information hub aiming to help fans buy concert tickets without being ripped off by touts.
"It's frustrating, but it doesn't need to exist. So that's sort of why we’re talking about it," he said. "We've been encouraging people to sort of to lend their voices to that."
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