Bastille | TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre

The Scarborough 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. Nectar is currently touring with Joy Crookes, and will join Bastille and Matt Berninger at the Royal Albert Hall for Streets of London’s Starry Night Charity Concert, next month.

She has also supported the likes of Nao, Norah Jones, Leon Bridges and The Teskey Brothers, with her reputation as a live performer growing at pace, whether commanding an intimate stage or captivating festival audiences, Nectar’s shows brim with emotional precision and natural charisma.