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I'm a massive pessimist.
I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.
I think everyone has such varied taste in music.
Lip synching in a video is usually my idea of hell.
I know who buys our music: we have such a diverse fanbase.
The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream.
Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.
There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.
I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.
We love to visit Las Vegas. It is so much fun, so iconic; it is always a pleasure.
I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.
I listen to unhealthy amount of Kanye. The Fugees. Also, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'
I'm massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it's always great when he decides to release music.
It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.
There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.
Mark Crew, the only producer we've ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.
'Saturday Night Live' was 100% the most surreal TV we've ever done. Leonardo DiCaprio was on the same show.
We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.
I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.
There are so many different points to 'Wild World,' and it sounds quite different to what people would expect from us.
I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.
Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.
Our favourite album that we always listen to in the car is '2001' by Dr. Dre, which is just the ultimate album of all time.
It would be wicked to do a mad '90s tune and make it a duet with Rihanna. I love her new album 'Anti.' I'm into quite dark R&B.
There's a part of me that wants to let all the different moments of 'Wild World' to have their moment and be released properly.
I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all about, really.
'Fire Walk With Me' was so divisive because the tone was so different than the TV series. But now television is almost more of a free medium than cinema.
The first turning point, when I stopped doing things by myself and the Bastille project began, was the inclusion of more electronic music into the sound.
The Backstreet Boys posted a cover of our single 'Good Grief.' It was so cool, and they reached out to us, saying, 'When you're in town, come to the show.'
One of the best things about being in a band is that we're so lucky to be able to travel the world. It takes us to all these cities that we've never seen before.
When we started making mixtapes, we were just ripping stuff off YouTube and DVDs, naively thinking that because we were putting it up for free, it was gonna be fine.
IHeartRadio was a mind-blowing experience. We're just this little band in England, and we played in between Alicia Keys and Nicki Minaj. It was incredible and surreal.
To be honest, I'm always really interested when people say they can relate to our songs. On the first album, that wasn't something I'd ever anticipated or thought about.
The mixtapes, and a lot of our music, it comes from a place of fandom and appreciation and of respect and of nodding toward stuff that we feel really affectionate towards.
I'm into really terrible, trashy American horror films. I think the 'Final Destination' 'sinquology', to phrase it, is brilliant! It's un-toppable in terms of how incredible it is.
There are moments, when you're playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I'm very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.
In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using the music to make it uplifting, so it's not completely hopeless.
After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has always been a kind of hobby that I get on with because I really love it.
I generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We use a lot of visuals on stage, so I kind of hope people are watching those and not looking at me.
Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.
I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?
I guess the way people release music and the way people listen to it has changed and is changing constantly. We wanna get the music out as quickly as possible. We're sitting on a lot of stuff and constantly making new stuff as well.
'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack.
I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I'm also a bit of loser, so wear a lot of film and band T-shirts. My friends say that I look like a cartoon character because I'm always wearing the same kind of stuff.
Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don't really listen to what the songs are about, so it's nice to sing a song like 'The Currents' and really mean it.
I think there's some people that absolutely love attention, and I'm not necessarily one of those people, but we're so, so lucky to be able to do this with our lives. There are certain aspects that maybe are not amazing, like having to represent us.
There's definitely a couple of people I'll play stuff to when it's nearly finished just to see what they think; Mark, our producer, his wife is Australian and just listens to the radio - she's awesome - and, I guess, is quite a casual music listener.
It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.
A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something. I think inspiration comes from anything and everything, and it's filtered through our brains, and it comes out sounding like our band.