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Bastille may be one of the biggest success stories of this year in British music, but the band have admitted that they don't quite feel ready for stadium shows.
The band, who have played a series of high profile festival gigs over the summer and supported Muse on tour, have expressed their anxieties when it comes to playing bigger shows. Consisting of Dan Smith, Chris Wood, William Farquarson and Kyle Simmons, Bastille have achieved a No.1 album with Bad Blood, yet have admitted to the Sunday Times that their success was something they never truly aspired to.
''The support bill was us, Biffy Clyro and Dizzee Rascal. Every show was surreal. I didn't know what we were doing there,'' admitted Dan, talking about their Muse support slot at the Emirates Stadium.
William added: ''We were totally lost on stadium stages. We're not theatrical enough - at least not yet - to play somewhere that size. We'd made a backdrop of our album cover that we thought was enormous, but it looked like a postage stamp on stage.''
Watch Bastille perform live in the video below
Furthering this Dan also opened about the nerves that he suffers on stage, saying that he formed the band as he was originally to nervous to perform by himself. Allegedly the song 'Things We Lost In The Fire' recalls those emotions, looking back to Dan's first gig after Dan one a competition to perform at university.
''The gig was the prize," he said, "I sat behind a piano with one loop pedal and lots of instruments, concentrating really hard on what I was doing and trying to ignore the fact that there was an audience. And that was after a fair few drinks. I'm definitely not a natural performer.''
Below check out photos of bastille performing at Koko
