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Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

- Dan Smith
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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.

Most friendship groups will have someone who starts a new relationship, and you just don't see them for four months. And that's always kind of sad, almost like an inverted break up. I guess the ideal situation is that whoever the new partner is can be subsumed into the friendship group.

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

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think most people would. It's a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.

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

Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.

My songs used to be significantly more bizarre. I used to play a big electric piano and a loop pedal. I was really into Regina Spektor, and I liked her narrative lyrics that were quite off the wall. I used to layer things up and try and replicate what I'd been doing with my bedroom recordings.

The mixtapes, and a lot of our music, it comes from a place of fandom and appreciation and of respect and of nodding toward stuff that we feel really affectionate towards.

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Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.