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over 300,000 views and struck a chord with youtube viewers from all over the world who posted cover versions of the track. ‘ Flaws’ was subsequently released as a single by the label Young and Lost and the band became a fi rm favourite with online bloggers proclaiming them as the creators of the perfect modern day pop song.


What Plans Do You Have for 2013? A lot is happening this coming year, it’s going to be really hectic. We have our debut album (Bad Blood) out in March and we are doing lots of touring. We are supporting Two Door Cinema Club pretty soon and then embarking on our own tour.


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hat comes to mind when you think of Australia? Is it, by any chance, sandy beaches and a deep azure ocean, cold


cans of lager, and barbeques? Perhaps you might add a volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica’s worth of weird and wonderful creatures (amongst which more than a few are poisonous enough to kill you), miles upon miles of unpeopled wilderness, and an almost maniacal love of sport.


There is, undoubtedly an element of truth to these common suppositions. Australia does boast two beaches known as the Eighty Mile Beach, and Ninety Mile Beach (and 10,683 other smaller beaches on its mainland alone), Australians – particularly students – do enjoy a drink on the weekend, and the warm weather does indeed lend itself to the outdoor preparation of food. But this by no means an entire portrait of the country. For one thing there is no mention of the country’s strength in higher education. Only the United States and United Kingdom have more institutions in the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings, and they are both have signifi cantly bigger populations, and, accordingly, far more universities. Every one of the Group of Eight, an alliance between Australia’s leading research universities – think of it as an Antipodean Ivy League – makes it into the top 100, and


in total, 25 of the country’s universities make the top 700 of the rankings. Australian universities are also known to be extremely keen on internationalization, to the extent that only coal, ore and tourism bring more money into the country.


The combination of a keen welcome, high- calibre universities, and a quality of life that hold its own with anywhere in the world has made Australia one of the world’s leading destinations for international students. In 2009, the last year for which OECD fi gures are available, 257,637 international students studied in Australia, again putting it only behind the US and UK. In terms of the percentage of students from overseas, no other country comes close to Australia’s fi gure of 21.5%.


You can be sure, therefore, to fi nd yourself in a cosmopolitan environment, in which you will almost certainly be able to seek out your compatriots if you begin to feel homesick. But, better still, why not immerse yourself in some Australian culture? There’s a lot more to it than the stereotypes, but at the end of the day, stereotypes which involve sunny beaches and a solid commitment to having a good time don’t really sound all that bad, do they?


Admissions/Entry/Visa requirements There is no federal or state level application system for international students applying to universities in Australia, so you will need to apply directly to the university, most probably online.


In order to study for an undergraduate degree (or a taught master’s degree) in Australia you will need a Higher Education Sector: Temporary Visa (Subclass 573).


The process for obtaining a student visa is as follows: • To be eligible you must be accepted onto a course which is registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions of Courses (CRICOS). You’ll need an online code, a copy of your confi rmation of enrolment, or an off er letter to serve as proof of this. You will be able to change course, but it must be to one of the same level, or else you will need to be apply for a new visa.


• Students who fall into assessment level 1 will simply need to attest that they have enough money, while students at all other levels will need to prove that they have at least enough money to cover the fi rst year of their stay.


• You may be required to take a medical and/or a radiological check-up to show that you are in good health, but you shouldn’t do this unless you are specifi cally advised that you must. If you are told to take a test then you must attend an appointment with a doctor who has been approved by the Australian immigration department.


• You are also obliged to purchase Overseas Student Health Cover – OSHC


• You will need to submit evidence of all the above along with application form 157A, four passport pictures and proof of your academic record. Applications must be made no more than 124 days (around four months) before your course starts. You may be asked to attend an interview at a local visa offi ce.


oud spoke to the uber talented singer/songwriter and producer Dan Smith; who created the band Bastille as


a vehicle for his diff erent musical worlds. Bastille are full of songs with danceable rhythms and beautiful soaring vocals encased in harmonies and bleeps.


Bastille started to build a wor


following online after Dan uploaded a makeshift D.I.Y video for the track ‘Flaws’ which pieced together footage from Terence Malick’s 1973 classic ‘Badlands’. It had


Bastille started to build a word of mouth following online after Dan uploaded a


which pieced together footage fr


As a Songwriter What Made You Want to Form a Band? I really wanted to play a lot of the songs I’d put together live, so I got together a few friends and formed Bastille. I’m a bit of a control freak as well so in a way I wanted to play these songs with my own band and not pass them to someone else. The guys in the band contribute a lot and I’m lucky enough to co-produce the tracks.


How Do You Go About Writing Songs? I’m not self-disciplined enough to sit in anI’m not self-disciplined enough to sit in an allocated time and write songs, its amazing how many songs are written in this way. I write when I feel inspired at inappropriate


times. I think it should be natural; forcing stuff through would be the worst for me.


Do You Strive for Chart Success? Not really, the charts honestly don’t really occur to me. I think to achieve chart success you can’t play down television exposure. Something like the X-Factor has 10 million viewers (at least) and that is gonna give you sales. The other way of getting your music heard by a wider-audience is through fi lms and soundtracks. There so many specialist radio stations and ways to fi nd out about music personally that breaking through to mainstream success is very hard. In the past you had something like Top of Pops, where getting on the show would mean the public knew about you. That doesn’t really happen now.


I do believe in writing songs though, that are accessible, with good hooks and lyrics are very important of course.


What Advice Would You Give a Teenager Who Wants to Make it in Music?


Keep on writing songs, listen to as much music as you can, fi gure out why songs work or don’t work. It can take a while to to get everything together. It took me 3 to 4 years to get together the songs I have now.


http://bastillebastille.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/bastilledan http://www.facebook.com/bastilleuk http://www.youtube.com/ BASTILLEvideos


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