Dan Smith of British pop band Bastille chats with music editor Roisin O’Connor for The Independent’s new music podcast series Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations.In the pilot episode, Smith talks about ...

Bastille frontman Dan Smith has expressed his frustration over ticket touting in the UK, as the pop band prepare to head out on their biggest tour since 2016. The From All Sides – Songs From the First ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. In the conversation about Bastille’s latest album, & (Ampersand), lead singer Dan ...

Bastille's Dan Smith has enlisted his mum to sing on the group's new album. The 38-year-old frontman asked his mother to contribute to the band's new tune 'Telegraph Road', which was inspired by a ...

In the manner of, say, Al Stewart, Smith pens a set of historical story-songs based around everyone from Oscar Wilde to singer-activist Paul Robeson to 19 th century female Chinese pirate Zheng Yi Sao ...