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#29 Private Moment - Bastille reflect on their evolution as a band

Private Parts

Peter Cowley

Diaries, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Happy Monday! Welcome back to the podcast where nothing is off limits.


We're back with another Private Moment to kickstart your week. These are where we go back into our archives to find little snippets from previous episodes for you all to enjoy.


Today, we take a trip down memory lane to when Jamie and Alex sat down with Dan and Kyle from Bastille. During their conversation, they delved into how Bastille started as a band, from Dan's solo musical endeavour, to their debut gig at Isle of Wight festival to soundtracking a John Lewis Christmas ad.


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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to another episode of our private moments. It's been a lot of short and

0:07.0

sweet episodes where you round up all of our favourite guests and all of our favourite

0:10.3

moments and different things. And this is a little private moment for you. I hope you

0:13.9

enjoy it. How did it all begin then? So, Daniel, you had a solar career that...

0:19.6

I mean, career is very generous. That was very generous. Yeah, fast and loose of the words.

0:24.6

Yeah, I'd been writing these songs, what became sort of first few Bastille songs and stuff.

0:29.9

And I used to play like just me with a keyboard and a bunch of different instruments and a

0:33.8

loop pedal. And what a loop pedal requires is really good timing, which I don't have.

0:39.5

I remember you said, remember back to part one, we jumped the cue, this one's starting up,

0:43.4

had a loop pedal. It's really hard. It's so coordinated. It's not. I used to hate being

0:49.6

on stage so much that I'd have to drink like a bottle of wine before going off and playing.

0:53.0

And like, my timing is already bad enough as it is. And then having to sort of like be in

0:56.5

time of yourself and like hit this pedal was a fucking nightmare. Is it like a drum beat

1:00.4

almost? So you have to try and play? So it's like, there's two pedals and you hit one,

1:04.7

you record a loop and then it loops that background and you have to sort of time of yourself.

1:08.0

But that's because it was a while ago, like now they're ways it's used and they've got

1:11.9

a click and all that kind of stuff in the metronome. But at the time, it was just a little tiny

1:15.2

LED flashed with the beat. So basically, I was in that by myself and it was like, imagine

1:20.5

it's like one man band just clanked. It was just looking nice. I'm like, and now he's

1:27.8

pulled out. I'm a lot of good. Where does Bob go? He's come from. Yeah, it was ridiculous.

1:31.7

Weird that that didn't work out. Actually, isn't it? That's insane that you had that.

1:35.8

I mean, to probably make you blush, but that's talent. That is, that is. I mean, it would

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