Bastille have re-recorded a version of REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ is out now. The track features on the new John Lewis and Waitrose Christmas TV advert, ‘Excitable Edgar’ which launched last Thursday and has already accumulated over 8 million views on YouTube.
Arranged and produced by Mara Carlyle and co-produced by Hugh Brunt, the track features the London Contemporary Orchestra, with vocals recorded by Dan Smith at the legendary Capitol Studios in L.A.
REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin said, “We love Dan Smith’s version of our song and are pleased to have it star in this campaign, which now becomes the soundtrack to everybody’s Christmas preparations.”
Over the course of nearly a decade together, Bastille’s unique sound – that cinematic, melancholic pop that masks the bleak realities reflected in their lyrics – has connected with audiences across the globe like no other British band in recent memory.
Bastille’s current album, Doom Days has received huge critical acclaim and charted in the top 5 in both the UK and U.S, the only British band to have achieved this chart landmark alongside The Beatles and Queen in 2019. The record finds the band at their most lyrically provocative, most accomplished, and most vital and charts the course of one night in search of distraction from the surrounding apocalypse.
The band’s collaborative hit single with Marshmello, “Happier,” has spent a record-breaking 60 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic songs tally and is recognised as being the most successful dance record of the decade. The track has topped charts around the world, with cumulative streams exceeding 3.5 billion and is now certified 5x Platinum in the U.S. and has sold more than 15 million units in the rest of the world.
In 2011 South Londoner, Dan Smith, started Bastille alone in his bedroom, releasing 300 copies of Bastille’s debut single. Relentless gigging, genuine word of mouth, some smartly curated mixtapes meant that within a few years — and with Chris Wood (drums), Will Farquarson (guitar) and Kyle Simmons (keyboards) added to the line-up, Bastille became a global phenomenon. The band’s chart-conquering twice No.1 debut album ‘Bad Blood’, which featured the international hit, ‘Pompeii’ was the biggest-selling digital album of 2013.They became that year’s biggest-selling global breakthrough act, with over a billion Spotify streams earning them the British Breakthrough Act award at the 2014 Brits, along with two Grammy nominations.
The four-piece continue to cement their reputation as one of the world’s most captivating live bands having just completed an extensive two-month long U.S tour ahead of The Doom Days club tour dates in the UK later this month, dates as below.
UK Doom Days Club Tour
Friday 29 Nov 2019 – Coventry – Warwick Arts Centre SOLD OUT
Sat 30 Nov 2019 – Carlisle – The Sands Centre SOLD OUT
Sun 01 Dec 2019 – Aberdeen – Music Hall SOLD OUT
Tue 03 Dec 2019 – Bradford – St. George’s Hall SOLD OUT
Wed 04 Dec 2019 – Grimsby – Auditorium SOLD OUT
Thu 05 Dec 2019 – Llandudno – Venue Cymru Theatre SOLD OUT
Sat 07 Dec 2019 – Torquay – The Foundry SOLD OUT
Sun 08 Dec 2019 – Portsmouth – Pyramids Centre SOLD OUT
Mon 09 Dec 2019 – Margate – Winter Gardens SOLD OUT
