You may have heard of essiebutton.com 's series on her channel called; Brand Focus? Well, I have had a bit of a brainwave and though instead of Brand Focus, Band Focus! That's right, I have decided, if you guys like it, to do a mini series of focusing on different bands to write about and share with you guys! I will share with you my favourites and recommend some good songs. So what is first on Band Focus? BASTILLE!
Okay, so you have probably all heard of the British band called Bastille, and many of you probably consider yourself a fan. But I bet if I ask you to name three songs you will say a mixture of these things:
- Pompeii, Things we lost in the fire, Bad Blood.
- Pompeii.
- They have more than three songs?
Am I right? I kind of hope that I am not because I absolutely adore this band so much. Seriously, it is an obsession. So basically, Bastille began in 2010 when Woody- drums, posted a flyer through Dan's- lead singer door advertising drum lessons. They soon joined forces and decided to begin a band because Dan had already written quite a few songs on his own- you can find them along with some solo covers on Youtube! They soon found Kyle and Will and Bastille was born. Bastille is called Bastille because Dan's birthday is on Bastille Day (14th July). Early in their music careers they released two free downloadable albums full of fantastic covers, collaborations and original tracks, these included Requiem for Blue Jeans, Walking to Oblivion and my personal favourite/slight obsession, No Angels featuring Ella Eyre. This was a cover of TLC's No Scrubs. Other People's Heartache was unfortunately taken down however I am certain you can still access most of the songs on Bastille's original (not Vevo) Youtube account.
On the 27th of April 2012, their first official single was released; Overjoyed! This confirmed their recent record deal with Virgin. However the video was released in the November of 2011. Bad Blood was Bastille's second single and first official video on their Vevo channel, however Overjoyed and some previous videos were uploaded on their own Youtube channel - BASTILLEvideos. Later on in the year they released the third single from their upcoming album- Bad Blood, called Flaws. They had previously released it for a limited time only but it was re-released. The success of the track got them on the Official Top 40! In the February of 2013, the biggie, POMPEII was to be released, this got to number 2 in the charts.
On the 4th of March 2014- BAD BLOOD, their debut album was released. Later on in the year Laura Palmer and Things We Lost in the Fire were released as EP's. On the 9th of October Of the Night was released, it is a mashup of old schools hits: Rhythm is a Dancer and Rhythm of the Night. Personally I love this track!
The Tracklist for Bad Blood is:
- Pompeii
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- Bad Blood
- Overjoyed
- These Streets
- Weight of Living pt 2
- Icarus
- Oblivion
- Flaws
- Daniel in the Den
- Laura Palmer
- Get Home
- (Bonus Track, on my download it was Weight of Living pt 1)
Now, this got me super excited because on the 25th of November 2013, Bastille released All This Bad Blood, an addition to Bad Blood. The first disk is the same as Bad Blood and the second disk is split into two parts
- Part 1 - All This Bad Blood - songs from released EP's
- Part 2 - Other People's Heartache- songs from Other People's Heartache
- Poet
- The Silence
- Haunt (Demo)
- Weight Of Living Part 1
- Sleepsong
- Durban Skies
- Laughter Lines
- Previously on Other People's Heartache
- Of The Night
- The Draw
- What Would You Do
- Skulls
- Tuning Out
After the success of both albums and all six, I have lost count, EP's, they were nominated for 4 Brit Awards! Best British Breakthrough Act, British Act, British Single of the Year with Pompeii and British Album of the Year with Bad Blood. They won Best British Breakthrough Act! I was so pleased and I used all of my e-mail addresses to vote for them! They have also picked up awards for Best Cover Woodie at the MTVU Woodie Awards with their BBC Live Lounge cover of We Can't Stop- Miley Cyrus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZi7CXE2ac&index=27&list=RD2cuR_Vi6vas
The Band have been touring America recently and are hopefully working on Album Number 2 or is it 3? Maybe 2 and 1/2 haha! Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed this because I adore this band and I am going to do a little list of my favourite 5 Bastille songs (even though I love them all!)
- No Angels
- Walking to Oblivion
- Sleepsong
- Oblivion
- Laughter Lines
Thanks for reading
X
(When I read this through, it kind of seems like an essay on Bastille haha! But I enjoy their music so yeah aha!x)
No comments:
Post a Comment