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Bastille Tours Behind Bad Blood
BASTILLE PERFORMS ON “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE” ON
SEPTEMBER 18 AND PLAYS ROCKEFELLER PLAZA CONCERT ON “TODAY” ON OCTOBER 6
Fall Tour Includes Two-Night Stand At NYC’s Radio City Music Hall (October 9 & 10) And Features Special Guests Grizfolk And Ella Eyre
Chart-Topping Hit “Pompeii” Certified Four Times Platinum
While New Single “Flaws” Climbs At Alternative Radio
BRIT-winning band Bastille will kick off its latest trip to the States with a pair of national television performances. The group will pay return visits to the outdoor stage of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on September 18 and “TODAY,” performing in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza as part of the “Toyota Concert Series” on October 6.
The band, which hascompleted three sold-out North American runs in the past year, will launch the “Bad Blood: The Last Stand Tour” on October 7 at Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, PA. Bastille’s October 9 show at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall quickly sold out, so a second show has been added on October 10. The October 15 concert at Air Canada Centre in Toronto is nearly sold out and additional tickets are being made available for this night due to high demand.Special guest Grizfolk will open on all October dates and Ella Eyre will support in November. Bastille will wrap up the outing on November 20 at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles in an evening that will feature opening sets from both Grizfolk and Ella Eyre. See below for itinerary.
Bastille has been touring non-stop in support of its debut album, Bad Blood, which entered the U.K. albums chart at No. 1 and has sold more than 900,000 units in the U.S. The band’s breakthrough hit “Pompeii” has now been certified four times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. It is certified Platinum (or multi-Platinum) in a total of seven countries, including the U.K., Australia, Canada and Italy. “Pompeii” is the most-streamed track of all time in the U.K. and one of the most-streamed tracks of 2014 on Spotify. The track has ruled at radio, topping Billboard’s Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Adult Alternative Songs charts and entering the Top 5 at the Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40 formats. The official video has more than 125 million views.
“Flaws,” the latest single from Bad Blood, is quickly climbing the Alternative radio charts, with early support from KROQ/Los Angeles, SiriusXM Alt Nation, WRFF/Philadelphia, KTCL/Denver, KITS/San Francisco and WKQX/Chicago, among others. The official “Flaws” video, which recently had its U.S. premiere on VEVO, can be seen here.
Bastille – “Bad Blood: The Last Stand Tour”
Date City/State/Province Venue
With Grizfolk supporting:
10/7 Philadelphia, PA Liacouras Center
10/9 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
10/10 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
10/11 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
10/13 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
10/14 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
10/15 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
10/17 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
10/18 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Theatre
10/19 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium
10/21 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
10/22 Akron, OH E.J. Thomas Hall
10/23 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre
10/24 Rochester, NY Main Street Armory
With Ella Eyre supporting:
11/6 Austin, TX Cedar Park Center
11/7 Houston, TX Reliant Arena
11/8 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
11/10 Broomfield, CO 1stBank Center
11/11 Orem, UT UCCU Center
11/13 Portland, OR Theatre of the Clouds
11/14 Vancouver, BC PNE Forum
11/15 Seattle, WA Key Arena
11/17 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/19 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
With Grizfolk and Ella Eyre supporting:
11/20 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Hall