Tag Archives: Dan Smith
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REVIEW: Bastille begs ‘Give Me The Future’ on new album
Bastille seems to have given up on everything; in the present at least. There’s no explanation needed. Instead, Dan Smith and company have started visualizing the future. Fractured lighting, trippy visuals and A.I. are just a few of the images conjured while listening to fourth album Give Me The Future.…
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REVIEW: Bastille enters the ‘Doom Days’ at the Greek
Bastille performs at Greek Theater in Berkeley on Oct. 11, 2019. Photos: Alessio Neri. About six years ago, Dan Smith of Bastille wrote a little song about looking for optimism in a disaster. Now, he and his bandmates are playing songs about simply surviving one. On the road in…
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Review, photos, video: In Warfield performance, Bastille refuses to settle
Bastille performs at then Warfield in San Francisco on April 10, 2014. Photos courtesy: Jon Ching. Four times since July 2013, England electronic pop quartet Bastille has passed through the Bay Area. And in that time, the band’s local fan base has grown exponentially. From a room of about 200 at…
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The 1975’s Matty Healy on the truth of three chords and hair battles with Bastille
Matty Healy of The 1975 and Dan Smith of Bastille. The mohawked frontman of Manchester’s The 1975 drops the phone just as our call is connected. “Oh, for f—‘s sake,” Matty Healy cringes, and I can tell I’m not his first interview of the morning. But just as quickly the…
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Roman Gokhman’s favorite concerts of 2013: 15 through 11
Bastille performs at then Warfield in San Francisco on April 10, 2014. Photos courtesy: Jon Ching. This is the third in a five-part series. Read how I’m scoring my list and find out about my “special consideration” acts in Part 1, HERE, and the runners-up in Part 2, HERE. 15. Bastille at…
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Photos & videos: Live 105 Not So Silent Night 2013 (Night 2)
Arcade Fire performs during Live 105 Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Dec. 7, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Photos and videos of Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Alt-J, Lorde, Bastille, NONONO, The Neighbourhood and The Colourist. Arcade Fire performs during Live 105 Not So Silent Night at Oracle…
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REVIEW: Bastille, Little Daylight, Nightmare and the Cat – Sept. 19
For their first show of its previous tour in the U.S., England’s much-hyped Bastille arrived in San Francisco with vocalist and band leader Dan Smith suffering with the flu. An in-store performance at Amoeba Records was canceled so Smith could save his voice for that night’s show at Popscene. It didn’t…
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Photos & videos: Bastille, Little Daylight at Popscene, 7/22
Bastille performs at Popscene on July 22, 2013. Photos: Roman Gokhman We’re reserving judgement about the performance because Dan Smith was obviously under the weather and unable to sing in his higher range. We will catch them again Sept. 19 at Great American Music Hall. Bastille performs at the Rickshaw…
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U.K. electro-pop band Bastille obsessed with history, film and Mexican food
Bastille, with Dan Smith second from right. Courtesy photo. It’s appropriate that the popularity of a band with a song about the fiery destruction of an ancient city began to blossom during a storm. Londoners Bastille were playing at a 500-capacity tent at the U.K.’s Isle of Wright about…
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Bastille’s Dan Smith on celebrating his birthday and disaster storytelling
Bastille, with Dan Smith second from right. Courtesy. Bastille has seemingly come out of nowhere in 2013, but band leader Dan Smith has been working on his project since 2010. Now the band has two Bay Area shows coming up. Monday, July 22 at Popscene and Sept. 19 at…