Catfish and the Bottlemen have teased their first new music in 5 years by posting a six-second snippet on their social media channels.
This primary taster options Van McCann singing the strains, “Again to the graft once more, simply bought my voice for a protracted weekend”, over a chugging guitar line. The clip performs over a slow-motion black-and-white video of McCann strolling down a hall.
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It comes lower than every week after the band seemed to be teasing a tour announcement once they posted {a photograph} of a sheet of paper studying “5:00pm, DOORS, 6:00pm, SHOWTIME”. On the identical time, these signed as much as the band’s mailing record acquired an e-mail merely studying “Thursday February 22”.
The band haven’t performed a present collectively since 2021, following their headline slots at Studying & Leeds and a pair of outside gigs at Singleton Park in Swansea and Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington. By that point, rumours of them splitting up had already been swirling.
They’ve already been booked to headline Studying and Leeds this yr, the place they are going to be acting on the Friday at Leeds and the Sunday at Studying. Liam Gallagher can also be headlining the competition that day, whereas the remainder of the headline slots are taken up by Blink-182, Gerry Cinnamon, Fred Once more.. and Lana Del Rey.
The reside exhibits Catfish and the Bottlemen are set to announce shall be their first because the departure of guitarist Johnny “Bondy” Bond.
In 2022, Bond confirmed he had left the band the yr earlier than, alleging that adjustments within the line-up and the uncertainty in regards to the band’s future had stemmed from “behaviour always re-occurring that I discovered to be insupportable”.
“To place it merely, I really feel that each the skilled and private relationships had develop into totally dysfunctional,” he added in his assertion.
Bondy went on to elucidate that he performed 4 summer season exhibits with the band final yr as a session musician “as there was no one else prepared to take action”.
“I’ve had no contact or affiliation of any kind with the remaining band members since then (Neighbourhood Competition ’21),” he wrote. He added that he “assumed” the group would have knowledgeable followers about his departure in addition to drummer Bob Corridor’s, however that “so far as I’m conscious this has not occurred but”.
Catfish and the Bottlemen’s final album was 2019’s ‘The Stability‘.