After selling out massive shows in the UK, US, Australia and headlining Reading and Leeds for the second time, multi-Platinum-selling, arena filling and festival headlining giants Catfish and the Bottlemen today write history and confirm their place amongst the UK’s elite acts with the announcement of their biggest live shows yet – their first ever headline stadium concerts.
The band will take over Cardiff Principality Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for two landmark performances on the 1st and 3rd August 2025. The news marks the next step in Catfish and the Bottlemen’s meteoric rise, following their epic return to the stage this summer, which has seen them sell out Liverpool’s 32,000 capacity Sefton Park and two nights at Cardiff Castle, before making their second headline Reading and Leeds Festival performance this weekend, and extensive dates across the US and Australia.
A special fan presale will begin at 10am BST on Wednesday 21st August. Fans can sign up at catfishandthebottlemen.com for access. Tickets are on general sale from Friday, 23rd August at 10am BST.
Catfish and the Bottlemen’s stadium-filling sonic outlook has cemented their place amongst Britain’s most successful bands of the 21st Century. Signing to Island Records in 2014 after years of relentless touring, their debut LP The Balcony surged into the UK Top 10 and helped them scoop British Breakthrough Act at the BRITs before scoring their landmark #1 album with The Ride. Since then they’ve amassed over one billion streams, two million album sales and are closing in on 10 million single sales. On stage Van McCann possesses unique magnetic energy, and is considered one of modern rock’s great live frontmen and songwriters, having played to over 2 million people.
The band have recently announced a special 10 year anniversary reissue of The Balcony. Released on 13th September, the album will be available on limited edition CD, Cassette and LP formats with inverted white artwork and six bonus tracks. Fans can also access a limited edition 7” box set featuring the full album plus ‘Hourglass’ (Ewan McGregor version) and rare song ‘ASA’, available on a 7” again for the first time since the original pressing 10 years ago.
10 years on from the release of their classic debut, with the anthemic new single ‘Showtime’ out now, an epic live summer underway, and groundbreaking stadium shows on the horizon, Van McCann is back where he’s meant to be: headlining festivals, working on new music, and beginning a bold new era for Catfish and the Bottlemen.
Catfish and the Bottlemen UK & IRE Live dates
23rd Aug 2024 – Leeds Festival (Headlining)
24th Aug 2024 – Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh (sold out)
25th Aug 2024 – Reading Festival (Headlining)
31st Aug 2024 – RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin (last tickets)
1st Aug 2025 – Cardiff Principality Stadium
3rd Aug 2025 – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
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