Including London Koko - November 7, 2014

Debut album: The Balcony – September 15, 2014

 

Indie stars in waiting – Time Out

Like The Walkmen’s ‘The Rat’ realised as a full band - NME

Killer guitar skills and major charisma – Nylon

Just the kind of surging indie pop- think Mystery Jets meets the Kooks – that the Brits do so well - Noisey

Anything but anonymity beckons - Q Magazine

The unmistakeable whiff of a festival indie tent singalong - Daily Telegraph

Straight outta Llandudno comes this blast of insouciant, hormone-fuelled indie-rock - The Times

Armed with a repertoire of hectic, but undeniably catchy tunes, the band channel indie rock’s brightest moments of the last 20 years - Esquire Magazine

 

Catfish And The Bottlemen have announced a 15 date UK headline tour running from November 5 to December 13,  in addition to their largest show to date at London Koko on November 7. The tour, which is on sale now, will follow both the release of their highly anticipated debut album The Balcony through Communion/Island Records on September 15, 2014, and a frenetic festival season which sees the English lads from Llandudno playing over 30 dates including Reading & Leeds, Latitude and T In The Park, plus Ibiza/Mallorca Rocks alongside Jake Bugg.

A lean jolt of youthful energy- recorded with Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Peace) on production duties- The Balcony includes the singlesHomesick (Zane Lowe Next Hype, XFM Evening playlist), Rango (Radio 1 BBC Introducing Playlist, Zane Lowe’s 100 Hottest Tracks of The Year, XFM Daytime playlist), Pacifier (Radio 1 INMWT playlist, XFM daytime playlist), Kathleen (Radio 1 playlist, 6Music Playlist, XFM Daytime playlist) and Fallout (Radio 1 playlist, XFM Daytime playlist, Absolute playlist, & 6Music playlist). The album release sees the culmination of six years of tenacity and sheer bloody-mindedness from Van McCann (vocals/guitar), Billy Bibby (guitar), Benji Blakeaway (bass) and Bob Hall (drums). The turbo-charged last 18 months of this period has been spent very much in the public eye: signing to Communion/Island Records, earning Radio 1 playlist slots for their 3 most recent singles ‘Pacifier’, ‘Kathleen’ and ‘Fallout’ (with all 3 debuting as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record In The World) and headlining the BBC Introducing Stage at this year’s Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

 

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UK Live Dates:

   5 November CARDIFF The Globe

   6 November PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms

   7 November LONDON Koko

   8 November LEICESTER 02 Academy

   9 November LEEDS Cockpit

12 November EDINBURGH Caves

13 November ABERDEEN Tunnels

14 November GLASGOW Classic Grand

15 November NEWCASTLE 02 Academy

   3 December MANCHESTER 02 Academy

   4 December BRISTOL Thekla       

   5 December STOKE Sugarmill

   7 December BIRMINGHAM Institute

   8 December OXFORD 02 Academy

12 December NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms

13 December LIVERPOOL O2 Academy