EMBARKING ON NORTH AMERICAN ARENA TOUR WITH DURAN DURAN THIS SUMMER
Recorded in front of an intimate crowd at Porchester Hall in London back in 2021, the release features Bastille performing 15 stripped-back tracks, including fan favorites “Pompeii” and “Happier,” as well as classic covers, as part of this global music special. The album shines a light on the creative versatility of the band, making for a truly stunning listen.
Included is the beautiful song “Hope For The Future,” which was played live for the first time at the concert, a song which features on the soundtrack for the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced From Devil’s Breath, a documentary about climate change.
Other highlights include covers of two iconic classics, including Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” in a poignant nod to their legendary Unplugged session. Originally aired on MTV internationally to over 180 countries, fans have been requesting the release since the original performance premiered over a year ago, so this marks a unique opportunity for those who missed out on the night to fully immerse themselves on this exclusive limited edition Record Store Day vinyl release.
Dan Smith says, “We’re so excited to finally release our MTV Unplugged show in full and on vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day. It was a privilege to work with some insanely talented musicians to put together these really different, special arrangements of a cross-section of our tunes. We added two new covers of songs that we love as a way of paying homage to the classic MTV Unplugged sessions we grew up on. All of us are massively proud of this record and the vinyl package we’ve put together for Record Store Day, which brilliantly supports the independent record stores that are so important to us massive fans of music, and to all of us who are lucky enough to work in music.”
Bastille: MTV Unplugged will be available in all independent record shops as part of the annual Record Store Day celebrations on April 22nd, 2023. Full tracklisting below.
Next month, Bastille will kick off their summer 2023 tour dates and join Duran Duran on their North American arena tour—see the full list of upcoming tour dates below.
In 2022, Bastille released their fourth album, the #1, critically acclaimed record Give Me The Future. Called “their best album” by both Rolling Stone and Clash and “the most expansive, yet cohesive record Bastille have put their name to” by NME, Give Me The Future explores a futuristic wonderland free from restrictions. Brimming with literary, cinematic, and cultural references to films like Thelma & Louise, the artist Keith Haring, and musicians like Phil Collins and The Police, the album is filled with danceable dreamscapes, providing an escapist universe where you can travel back and forward in time to be anyone, do anything, and embrace a new wave of technology, which enables us to get lost inside our imagination.
1. survivin’
2. Quarter Past Midnight
3. Blame
4. Daniel In The Den
5. Bad Decisions
6. Come As You Are (Nirvana Cover)
7. Give Me The Future
8. Laughter Lines
9. Fake It
10. Good Grief
11. No Bad Days
12. Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack Cover)
13. Hope For The Future
14. Happier
15. Pompeii
UPCOMING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
5/24 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
5/26 Napa, CA Bottle Rock Festival
5/28 San Jose, CA SAP Center*
5/31 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena*
6/1 Portland, OR Moda Center*
6/3 Salt Lake City, UT Vivint Arena*
6/6 Austin, TX Moody Center*
6/7 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center*
6/9 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
6/10 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center*
6/11 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
6/13 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena*
6/14 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
6/15 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena*
6/17 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena*
6/18 Sunrise, FL FLA Live Arena*
8/22 Chula Vista, CA The North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*
8/24 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center*
8/26 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena*
8/28 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
8/29 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
8/31 Saint Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair*
9/1 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion*
9/3 Canandaigua, NY CMAC Performing Arts Center*
9/6 Boston, MA TD Garden*
9/7 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center*
9/9 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena*
9/10 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center*
9/12 Norfolk, VA The Norva
9/13 Washington, DC Capital One Arena*
9/14 Louisville, KY Bourbon & Beyond 2023
9/16 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena*
9/17 Grand Rapids, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe
9/19 Toronto, CAN Scotiabank Arena*
9/21 Washington, DC The Atlantis
9/22 New York, NY Forest Hills Stadium*
*supporting Duran Duran
ABOUT BASTILLE:
The four-piece has been experimenting and augmenting the Bastille sound since the release of their last album Doom Days in 2019, the conclusion of an unofficial trilogy. Last year, they released the Goosebumps EP, featuring Graham Coxon on “WHAT YOU GONNA DO???” and producer Kenny Beats on the title track, as they continued to pen songs that seek to understand and offer escape from the modern human condition. Doom Days received huge critical acclaim and charted in the Top 5 in both the U.K. and U.S., the only U.K. band to have achieved this chart landmark alongside The Beatles and Queen in 2019. The record found the band at their most lyrically provocative, most accomplished, and most vital and charts the course of one night in search of distraction from the surrounding apocalypse (sound familiar?). During the course of 2019, the four-piece continued to cement their reputation as one of the world’s most captivating live bands, having played an extensive two month-long sold-out U.S. and U.K. tour. At the beginning of 2020, Bastille received their sixth Brit nomination and their second nomination for British Group. In January 2021, Bastille was the subject of ReOrchestrated, a documentary film that provided a revelatory and bracingly honest new look into the band’s journey so far, framed through their ReOrchestrated shows and diving into themes of motivation, anxiety, and imposter syndrome. With over 11 million records sold, 6 U.K. Top 40 singles, and 1.5 billion video views, Bastille continues to be one of the world’s most streamed bands.
