It's Bastille day, lets celebrate the birth of the French Republic with a tenuously linked look back in the archives at some of our interviews with British rock band, Bastille.

We first spoke to the London band back in February of 2013
“Yes, there has been a fair amount of drinking and partying,” nods Smith. “A couple of nights in particular. Targeting the days off and enjoying the nights before those has been a big theme of the tour. It’s been wicked.”

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We talked to them again in July ahead of their appearance in the Indipendence festival
“I never wanted to be in a band when I was younger,” he explains. “Obviously I’m happy and it’s crazy that it’s happened and we have this opportunity to do it as our jobs, but I wanted to write about films, I wanted to be a film journalist. I’d always just done music for fun, as a hobby, although it feels weird calling it that now!”
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Heres our review of their live show in The Academy, Dublin, back in 2013
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And a photo gallery of the night!

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And finally in honour of the French, here's the English band's latest video!