Dan Smith

The idea of doing film and music together is an absolute dream. ”

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. ”

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. ”

When 'Flaws' went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we'd ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album. ”

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. ”

When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark. ”

We love to visit Las Vegas. It is so much fun, so iconic; it is always a pleasure. ”

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. ”

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. ”

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes. ”