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BΔSTILLE SETLIST Intro - Out of the Darkness Stay Awake? Interlude - Memory 1 Entering Innerverse Distorted Light Beam Things We Lost in the Fire Laura Palmer Interlude - Memory 2 Was It a Dream? Oblivion Those Nights Quarter Past Midnight Interlude (untitled) Back to the Future Interlude - Memory 3 Try Again Plug In… WHAT YOU GONNA DO??? survivin' Good Grief Promises Give Me the Future 4AM / Grip / Flaws No Bad Days Interlude - Insufficient Funds Happier (Marshmello / Bastille song) Of the Night Future Holds Pompeii Encore: Hope for the Future Shut Off the Lights BΔSTILLE Tour DatesMAY 31 THE FACTORY CHESTERFIELD, MO
JUN 1 THE SYLVEE MADISON, WI JUN 3 HISTORY TORONTO, CANADA JUN 4 DEL LAGO RESORT & CASINO WATERLOO, NY JUN 5 THE ANTHEM WASHINGTON, DC JUN 7 TERMINAL 5 NEW YORK, NY JUN 8 ROADRUNNER BOSTON, MA JUN 10 MASONIC TEMPLE THEATRE DETROIT, MI JUN 11 ROXIAN THEATRE MCKEES ROCKS, PA JUN 12 GARFIELD PARK INDIANAPOLIS, IN JUN 14 COLLEGE STREET MUSIC HALL NEW HAVEN, CT JUN 15 THE MET PHILADELPHIA, PA JUN 17 KEMBA LIVE! COLUMBUS, OH JUN 18 HOLLYWOOD CASINO AMPHITHEATRE TINLEY PARK, IL JUL 1 PANAMA OPEN AIR 2022 BONN, GERMANY JUL 30 INDIEPENDENCE FESTIVAL 2022 MITCHELSTOWN, IRELAND JUL 31 KENDAL CALLING 2022 PENRITH UK AUG 11 SZIGET FESTIVAL 2022 BUDAPEST III. KERÜLET, HUNGARY AUG 13 BOARDMASTERS 2022 NEWQUAY UK AUG 24 ZÜRICH OPENAIR 2022 GLATTBRUGG, SWITZERLAND AUG. 26 - 28 VICTORIOUS 2022 OLD PORTSMOUTH UK AUG 26 LEEDS FESTIVAL 2022 LEEDS UK AUG 28 READING FESTIVAL 2022 READING UK AUG 31 PIAZZA DUOMO PRATO, ITALY SEP 9 TOM BRASIL SAO PAULO, BRAZIL SEP 10 ROCK IN RIO RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL NOV 15 SALLE PLEYEL PARIS, FRANCE NOV 16 ROCKHAL ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE, LUXEMBOURG NOV 18 JAHRHUNDERTHALLE FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY NOV 19 PALLADIUM COLOGNE, GERMANY NOV 20 VERTI MUSIC HALL BERLIN, GERMANY NOV 22 TORWAR WARSZAWA, POLAND NOV 23 SMALL SPORTS HALL HLAVNÍ MĚSTO PRAHA, CZECHIA NOV 24 WIENER STADTHALLE VIENNA, AUSTRIA NOV 26 LORENZINI DISTRICT MILANO, ITALY NOV 27 HALLE 622 ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND NOV 29 PALAU SANT JORDI BARCELONA, SPAIN NOV 30 WIZINK CENTER MADRID, SPAIN JOSH FUDGE SETLIST
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“I’ve seen The Future and it will be, I’ve seen The Future and it works” – Prince
Some three decades later, we’re all still mostly optimistic about the future despite the strangeness of humanity in an increasingly tech-driven age, and that perspective was personified in an immersive performance from London’s BΔSTILLE at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, in support their fourth studio album Give Me The Future (on EMI Records).
The evening opened up with a well-received set from young Oklahoma indie pop singer-songwriter Josh Fudge, who replaced intended tour leg opener Sarah Jaffe, on relatively short notice. The red-headed nineteen-year-old caught attention with his 2021 album Fun Times and already has his new record (also future-oriented), Technicolor ready for release, playing several new tracks that the welcoming audience was among the first to hear live.
Though he plays many instruments (starting with piano at age four) Fudge stayed on his Fender bass, starting with 2021’s “When She’s Gone” which was stopped, and then re-started once the drummer was given his missing sticks. The crowd learned the chorus to 2021’s “Feel Like” quickly and sang along, and Fudge commented on the general niceness of everyone he’d met on this first trip to Kansas City.
His most recent synth-fueled single, “Hello” also has an 8-bit style music video to accompany it and is in itself, a nice introduction to his style of dreamy, blissful indie pop, and he finished his set with the open-ended question song “What if We Fall in Love?”
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Bastille lead singer Dan Smith started with a slightly different vision for their latest album, but as the pandemic lockdown progressed, he looked deeper into the differences between the real and the not-so-real, enhanced by technology and the potential foresight that it provides, to create the final concepts behind Give Me The Future.
The band had last played at the venue in November 2018 and how excited was Kansas City to have them back? - the merch line stretched down the long theater hallway and around the corner, all before the show had even started, and their ninety-five minute headlining set did not disappoint the eager fans.
Was it a concert or an audio/video presentation from Future, Inc.? The lines slightly blurred with the conceptual interludes between segments that featured spoken voiceover (including one from UK actor Riz Ahmed) and futuristic info-images from this “corporation” on-screen as Smith reclined on a center chaise to also take the experience in.
We “entered the innerverse” after the opening “Stay Awake?” for the new album’s first single, “Distorted Light Beam” that quickly had everyone clapping along and found Smith darting from stage side to side. The band then reached back to 2013 for “Things We Lost in the Fire” with Smith concerned about the future even a decade ago, singing “the future’s in our hands and we will never be the same again”.
Things quieted for 2013’s “Oblivion” and 2019’s “Those Nights’ but picked back up with “Quarter Past Midnight” from last album, Doom Days. The new album’s “Back to the Future” is possibly their funkiest song to date, and even allowed bassist/keyboardist Will Farquarson to step to center stage for some thumping riffs.
“This next song sounds really happy, but it’s incredibly depressing” Smith admitted, introducing the new “survivin’”, which seems to be a common thread to many of their songs, though it all definitely seems to work. And on the anthemic title track of the new album, Smith optimistically sings, “Give me the future, it’s golden and bright”.
As the set progressed, a virtual voice said we’d reached “insufficient funds” on our innerverse journey in Future Inc’s Futurescape Dream Engine, but luckily an “alternative form of payment was applied” and the set continued with the sing-a-long to massive radio hit with Marshmello, “Happier” and a hooded Smith traveling into the crowd to sing from several spots on the floor.
“Of the Night” smartly combines ‘90s elements of “Rhythm Is a Dancer” by Snap! and Corona’s “The Rhythm of the Night” for a proper mash-up hit that also makes the song their own. The main set’s finale ended with their first breakout single, “Pompeii”, starting quietly before the chanting vocal and drum beat kicked in with the audience singing every word
The future was even on the band’s mind as they contributed a song to the documentary From Devil’s Breath, a film about Portugal’s wildfire devastation and the efforts to reclaim and restore the forests and natural habitats, “Hope for the Future got me on my knees” Smith sang, to begin the two-song encore with some harmonic folk flair.
And with our musical journey to the innerverse nearly complete, it was time to “Shut Off the Lights” to end things with aplomb, because as the lyric goes, “we don’t need them to dance” and dance the crowd did, before we all “unplugged” from “Future Inc’s Futurescape Dream Engine”, but it’s a musical journey BΔSTILLE fans would gladly take again, into the Future.
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