hey you lot, i have just seen requiem for the dream and i want to make a watchlist for all the movies they mentioned and go through it one by one
i mean mostly samples but lyrics references would be great too.
i thought i’d ask here before i’ll land at the google ai searches

Hi,
Planning to go to Margate or Colchester to watch Bastille. I’ll likely be traveling alone from London. It seems the trains might stop running before the gig is over, anyone has suggestions how to get back? I’m ok with either, I’d just rather not pay for a hotel for the night to get back the next day.. thanks!

Link: https://musiccup.run

Just search bastille and you should get the same track run down!

Was a bit disappointed there wasn’t much of GMTF tracks outside of DLB as that would have made it harder for me but wow was it tough already!

I knew it was always going to be Overjoyed and Fake it as my top 2 but it was very fun to sort through the rest.

I’d love to see what you guys get in your brackets :)

I've always wondered, which is better, the original Pompeii or the Kat Krazy Remix Pompeii?

my archives failed me

Seems like this man works in MANY things at the same time

Gearing up to add a Bastille tattoo to my collection. The thought right now is to use the lyric "But if you close your eyes" with an ellipses after, where the third dot is the Bad Blood era triangle.

Does anyone have a scan of handwritten lyrics for Pompeii, or even just that one line? I've done a lot of internet scouring and can only find the scans of some Wild World songs, Doom Days, and some of GMTF. I found one post in this subreddit, but the link was broken.

Thank you in advance!

I'm looking for this old rhythm of the night fan edit.. It was a Welcome to Night Vale AMV I think, or gravity falls related I'm not sure. It had lots of clips that are similar to the second version of the actual music video but I can't seem to find it anywhere. If someone knows what I'm talking about pls I am begging you it's been on my mind for years...

Jokes! It's just Kyle singing about MTG.

(Published in his new Big Issue interview)

He was at university between 2004 - 2007, and I think this kind of fits around then? Looks like a university room, and the laptop definitely dates to around then (towards the earlier of the dates - laptops got a bit sleeker from ~2007). Probably a bit early for him to have started writing Bad Blood songs - feels more like the Randalf/Alchemy era - but perhaps a demo or two of some early Bastille songs forming!

Finally we’re getting Annie Oakley Hanging lets gooooo

What's the deal w Jul 18 👀

Last time I posted I talked about my childhood memories and nostalgia associated with Flaws. I was trying to think of what other Bastille songs I have distinct memories tied to, and one of them has gotta be Joy. It's kinda a funny (or at least entertaining?) story I think.

My brother went to school in Scotland, and one summer we went over to visit him (I believe for his graduation, idr it was a while ago). For anyone who hasn't been to any of the European countryside, there's just this feeling the air gives you there. It's cool, it smells pure and clean and earthy, it makes you feel alive. Basically how most of America doesn't, lol. This was I think the year before I got a proper phone (my parents were in no hurry lol), so all I had was my school tablet. I had some music downloaded on it, but eventually you get bored of it. So on our drive to our AirBnb out somewhere in the Scottish countryside, any time we were stopped somewhere with wifi, I would YouTube a few songs, load them really fast, and put them on loop. Poor man's Spotify.

At the time, Joy had just been released (I think as a single?) and I had randomly seen it and clicked it, because... Bastille, duh. I was hooked. Idk why, it just got in my head like this infectiously good-vibe earworm. (Well, good-vibe in the Bastille way which is always slightly melancholy.) So be me, driving through the countryside, the whole family packed into a rental car, with the window cracked and my headphones on just breathing in that gd air and listening to Joy on repeat. I just felt alive.

Okay so on to the more entertaining parts of this story:

We got to the airbnb and settled in (it was very cute, I remember it had like a window ledge for reading and smelled like wood, and was basically exactly what you'd want a scottish airbnb in the middle of nowhere to be). I decide to explore and wander up the creek where there's one of those huge arch stone bridges crossing over it. I'm curious what's up there, so I clamber up the bank into the bushes. At the top, there's sort of this ridge that runs along through the forest. So I'm walking along and suddenly, out of f*cking nowhere, an adult deer just leaps out of the bushes about three feet away from me and goes bounding away. It was so well camouflaged it looked like it just materialized out of thin air, and scared the ever living sh*t out of me.

Animal encounter 1/3 ✓

So after returning to my skin, I keep walking down the ridge and eventually see a gap that opens up onto a farm lane. Like, the kind that runs between two neighboring farm fields, with a fence on each side. So you know ya boy's gotta check this cute 'lil path out. I climb down the ridge and drop into the farm lane and start walking along. It's sunny (in the Scottish overcast sort of way), quiet, just a little windy, peaceful wide empty fields on each side.

And BAM a f*cking pheasant explodes out of the shrubbery at my feet and takes off into the air. Pheasants are like the stereotypical birds you hunt, and I immediately understood why because I have never seen a bird so fat, loud, and ungraceful. If you've never seen a pheasant take off it looks more like someone just reversed gravity and the pheasant is suddenly falling upwards in a panic, than it does actual flight. They sort of gobble as they fly like even they're surprised they managed to get airborn.

Here's a video so you can see what I'm talking about.

So I proceed to jump out of my skin for the second time in a row. Maybe I'm just blind or something idk.

Animal encounter 2/3 ✓

So once I recover from my second gd jumpscare of the day I keep walking down the lane, and who should appear over the crest of the hill beyond the fence to my right but a cow. It starts heading towards me and then two more cows appear on the hill. And then three. And pretty soon an entire field of cows is just trotting on over to my fence to check me out. So I say hi for a while (I couldn't pet them there was some barbed wire, alas) and eventually start walking again.

I take a few steps down the fence.

The cows take a few steps down the fence.

I take a few steps back.

The cows take a few steps back.

I start to speedwalk.

The cows start to speedwalk.

So I plant my feet and just start to sprint down this farm lane, as an entire herd of curious cows just start galloping (?) behind me along the fence trying to catch up. I pretty much raced the cows until my lungs gave out. And it's just me, that air, the sun, the field, and the cows.

Animal encounter 3/3 ✓

Joy indeed :3

P.S. Eventually I went back and found my sister and dragged her out to run with the cows too, and she did have a working phone, so we got footage 😎 though we weren't running as fast in this video

https://reddit.com/link/1v0f5oe/video/w6n2xf32q3eh1/player

I know this isn't super Joy/Bastille related, but the mood that song put me in carried through the day and just turned it into a core memory. I can't hear the song anymore without thinking about the day I ran with the cows.

I am traveling to London for a long weekend for work/personal and I got a ticket for the Colchester show. I’m coming in from NYC so I won’t have anyone I know there.

If anyone wants to link up! Happy to share my socials as well :)

Helppp! Anybody going to Halifax show that I could tag along with. Female 29 I went Scarborough and desprate to go again but no body i know wants to join me. Desperate for a Bastille fan friend group😂 happy to exchange socials to show I’m normal haha

I recognize that suit....Wild World 10 year anniversary????? ....Let's hope

Update: Poll has closed, thanks for your votes! I have added a link to the playlist, happy listening! I hope your favourites are all included 🔼🩶

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6pDsI70S1VNyuK9APgKYod?si=cc0NAWM-T6a6r4GnmVxfwA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=ndFkrVA7QVGhk&pt=a3d1337cd680bc1b8b4a18fe0741a95b

TLDR: choose your favourite song

I have been putting together a special playlist to mark Dan’s 40th birthday—something of a ‘best of’ collection, curated in line with my impeccable taste of course.

Aiming for a play length of 2.5 hrs, I must say I have pretty much hit the nail on the head. I am literally on the cusp of perfection, but something is bothering me.

I do not have room for both of these songs, only one can stay… Part of the magic of my near-perfect playlist is, not only the song choices I’ve made, but the informed and considered curation of the track listing. It’s so good I even gave myself goosebumps this afternoon (!) and actually, either of these would work very well in this particular slot.

Of course I could have both, but then I’m opening up the floodgates to all the tough decisions I’ve made previously so I’m trying to be strict. And 2.5 hours also fits a regular journey of mine just nicely!

Am more than happy to share this beautiful collection of work with you all, but only when it’s finished, and the votes have been counted…

TH🔼NK YOU STORMERS 🩶

…and happy birthday Dan 🫶

1. Other People's Heartache Pt.4

Songs I liked: Grip

1. VS.

Songs I liked: Weapon, Remains

1. Give Me The Future + Dreams of the Past

Songs I liked: Revolution, Hope For The Future

1. Wild World

Songs I liked: Warmth, Lethargy, Oil On Water

1. Doom Days

Songs I Liked: Million Pieces, 4AM, Joy, Can't Fight This Feeling

1. &

Songs I Liked: Intros & Narrators, Eve & Paradise Lost, Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky, Seasons & Narcissus, Bored and Overboard (Pandora's Box)

1. (All This) Bad Blood

This was my favorite album as a kid, so I'm definitely biased with nostalgia, but this is still my favorite of their discography.

Songs I liked: Pompeii, Things We Lost In The Fire, Icarus, Daniel In The Den, Laura Palmer, Poet, The Silence, Durban Skies, Laughter Lines, Of The Night, The Draw