Dan this morning about tickets touts & stampittout.co.uk 📺🎟️
“I’ve been mates with Ralph since our first days at University in Leeds, and over the years we’ve made a lot of music together and been on loads of tours with him and the TKAK guys. I was so happy when they told me they’d be making one final album, and was really stoked when he asked me to write a song with him for it. We started “Spiralling” last year in my kitchen, and I bloody love where it’s ended up. Go have a listen, and I hope you lot love it too.”
"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. "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 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.
"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 the O2's "Stamp It Tout" information hub, which aims to aid fans to buy concert tickets without being ripped off by touts.
"It's frustrating, but it doesn't need to exist. So that's why we’re talking about it," he said. "We've been encouraging people to lend their voices to that."
📃📸 Reuters