Bastille announce new headline date at Scarborough Open Air Theatre

The four-piece, fronted by vocalist Dan Smith, alongside Kyle Simmons on keys, bass and guitarist Will Farquarson and drummer Chris ‘Woody’ Wood, has revealed it will be playing TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre on Saturday, July 11.

Joining Bastille as special guests for the show will be soul singer-songwriter Nectar Woode.

Tickets go on sale via scarboroughopenairtheatre.com and ticketmaster.co.uk at 10am Friday (Nov 28).

The announcement follows Bastille’s return to the stage earlier this month for their From All Sides tour after a two year hiatus from performing live.

Selling out arena shows in nine cities across the UK, alongside celebrating the band’s career to date, the expansive set carried a forward-looking energy bringing together over a decade of the band’s music with a clear sense of evolution, seamlessly threading in the sounds and ideas shaping their next chapter. The tour culminated with the release of the band’s first original new music in three years, new single SAVE MY SOUL - which was released last Friday.

With more than 13 million records sold, three UK No.1 albums, six UK Top 40 singles, more than two billion video views and more than seven billion Spotify streams, Bastille remain one of the world’s most streamed acts, and one of the most influential British bands of a generation.

Bastille’s distinctive sound and cinematic songwriting have connected with audiences across the globe like few other British bands in recent memory.

Their triple platinum, chart-topping, twice No.1 debut album Bad Blood – featuring the era-defining hit Pompeii – was the biggest-selling digital album of 2013 and made Bastille the year’s biggest global breakthrough act. The band won the British Breakthrough Act award at the 2014 BRIT Awards and received two GRAMMY Award nominations.

Further number one albums followed with Wild World (2016) and Give Me The Future (2022), and their 2018 Happier collaboration with Marshmello has been streamed more than seven billion times.

In 2023, the band celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Bad Blood with the release of Bad Blood X and a sold-out international run of shows and festivals.

That same year, they collaborated with multiple Academy and GRAMMY award-winning composer Hans Zimmer on Pompeii MMXXIII, a powerful rework of their breakthrough hit that closed BBC’s Planet Earth III.

Rising British-Ghanaian soul star Nectar Woode – likened to Nina Simone by Elton John earlier this year – will support in Scarborough.

Her music, described as a vivid tapestry of neo-soul, folk, jazz, gospel and raw, diaristic songwriting, has found her listeners across the world.

This month’s new single release, the soulful and reflective Stick Fight followed her third EP It’s Like I Never Left in the summer.

Julian Murray, of Scarborough OAT promoters Cuffe and Taylor, said: “Bastille have been such an influential band – their recent tour was an amazing celebration of 15 years together.

"It’s fantastic to be bringing their powerful and distinctive music back to Scarborough – after their brilliant headline show here in 2018.

"This will undoubtedly be a real highlight of the summer on the Yorkshire coast.”