Bastille frontman Dan Smith on how insomnia can lead to great things

In advance of his Indiependence appearance, Bastille frontman Dan Smith tells Don O’Mahony about the upside to insomnia, and his group’s focus on making music they like

As a musician, performer and interviewee, Dan Smith gives the air of someone with a voracious appetite for new experiences and ideas. If the end of the world were to happen tomorrow morning you know the Bastille linchpin would not waste a second of his time left on earth. In fact, he’s already given a pretty good account of that eventuality on the London indie pop outfit’s newly released third long player Doom Days, a concept album detailing a night of hedonism set against a possible apocalypse.