Two years after their Clockenflap debut, Bastille go from strength to strength

Bastille are ready to storm Hong Kong again, two years after our home-grown rock festival launched the indie-pop band to international success.

Clockenflap 2012 was the London-based rockers' first major festival appearance, and their debut gig outside Europe. Soon after, they shot to the top of the charts in Britain and the US before embarking on a sold-out tour of the States.

Now the four members of Bastille are coming back for more, with a new album in the wings and a new sound. "We had a wonderful time — it's such a beautiful place," says bass player Will Farquarson from Los Angeles.

Named after the French holiday Bastille Day (July 14) on account of it falling on frontman and founder Dan Smith's birthday, the band's career has gone stratospheric since their West Kowloon show two years ago.

Then, they were a little known band that had only recently been augmented by friends Kyle Simmons, Farquarson and Chris "Woody" Wood, after the one-time solo artist Smith decided he wanted to move from bedroom crooner.

Their emotionally charged pop anthems quickly won an audience that straddled the genre-fractured world of pop. A spate of hit singles followed, including the floor-filling , with its instantly memorable opening refrain "eh-eh-oh eh-oh" becoming the crowd chant of 2013's festivals and indie discos.