Bastille Return To Cardiff Castle

Multi-platinum selling indie pop band Bastille is the latest headline artist heading to Cardiff next summer.

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 Depot Live at Cardiff Castle on Friday, July 10.

The show marks a triumphant return for the multi-award winning band who last headlined a sell-out night at the historic venue in 2023.

Joining Bastille as special guests for the show will be soulful singer-songwriter Arthur Hill and the mysterious emerging artist Carpetman.

Presale tickets are available at 10am Thursday via depotlive.co.uk/bastille  and all tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday via depotlive.co.uk and ticketmaster.co.uk  

The Cardiff 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. 

London-based Arthur Hill is known for soulful melodies, sharp lyricism and authentic storytelling. 

His debut single Tiny Room received more than 6million streams – in a rise driven in part by his social media presence, with 1.7million-plus followers on TikTok. That was followed by viral sensation Iced Coffee, a track which inspired more than three million video creations, and fan favourite Hey Arthur! which hit 160k streams in its first 24-hours after release.

His debut EP In The Middle Of Somewhere released earlier this year led to his debut UK headline tour – which sold out regional venues within five minutes. 

Carpetman is a young Ukrainian musician, known for performing under a signature carpet mask – whose boundary pushing music sits between house and blues, to create something truly unique. With almost 40million streams across Spotify and Apple Music, Carpetman is an emerging artist ready to captivate audiences.

Bastille join Bowling For Soup and Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Katy Perry, Garbage and Skunk Anansie, Two Door Cinema Club, Ethel Cain and the Blackbird Festival among the headline announcements for TK Maxx presents DEPOT Live at Cardiff Castle 2026 which is presented by promoters DEPOT Live and Cuffe and Taylor. 

DEPOT Live founder Nick Saunders said: “Bastille brought an incredible show here in 2023 so we are excited to welcome them back for what will be another memorable night.

“They are a hugely influential band and their music is so powerful and distinctive – it will sound exceptional once again and I cannot wait to hear it alongside the rising talents of Arthur Hill and Carpetman! Don’t miss out on what will be a very special show.”