I hadn’t heard of Bastille before I saw them on the iTunes Festival this year, but I’ve grown to like quite a few of their songs, particularly the anthemic Pompeii. I loved this recent video on Vevo of the band rocking up to a park with the barest of instruments and putting on an impromptu performance. Well, impromptu enough that you have plugs for your keyboard, anyway.

Things to love about this video:

• Three arms playing the piano
• The crowd being unable to get the “howmigonnabe an optimist” timing right as they mime along - it’s a weird phrasing, that
• Also, does anyone else hear it as “howmigonnabe an octopus about this”?
• Excellent appearance of a Ghostbusters t-shirt
• Proper lens flare, from the sun and everything
• Cheesy talky bit in the middle of the song, they’re so normal
• In the single edit, the way he says “close” in “close your eyes” is weird. He seems to have grown out of that now. Phew!
• Eh-ey-oh, ey-oh!