Fame is getting in Dan’s hair

Media jibes about his looks are blunting the fun of success for Bastille’s singer, says Ed Power.

BASTILLE frontman Dan Smith’s hair is standing on end. This is no surprise. It’s his usual ‘spiked mullet’. What is unexpected is his agitation. He is upset.

“A journalist reviewed our album and made a comment about my haircut,” he says. “I mean, are you really, in a broadsheet newspaper, making a comment about my hair? In an album review? How is that relevant?”