Catfish & the Bottlemen’s second album The Ride, mostly produced in LA by Dave Sardy is a collection of bold and riffing pop songs that verge on the anthemic.

“I feel like the last album was the support band, or even the soundcheck and this one’s the headliner,” says charismatic frontman Van McCann.

Having won the inaugural BBC Introducing award for best new band of 2014 and recently the BRIT Award for British Breakthrough Act in 2016, Catfish and The Bottlemen are now the UK’s freshest and most exciting live act. They recently sold out their April UK Underplay Tour in a record 4 minutes And this July’s Manchester’s 8,000 capacity Castlefield Bowl open in 6 minutes of going on sale!

Catfish And The Bottlemen are: Van McCann (vocals/guitar), Johnny Bond (guitar), Benji Blakeaway (bass) and Bob Hall (drums).

2016 Headlines

• Winner of the BRITS 2016 British Breakthrough Act.
• April UK Underplay tour sold out in a record 4 minutes.
• New single Soundcheck has had a great support from Radio so far: currently on A list rotation on Radio 1, Radio 2 Record Of The Week, Daytime Playlist on Radio X, B List at 6Music and Absolute.
• Soundcheck has sold over 21,000 UK so far.

The Balcony Headlines

• 220,000 UK Sales
• 38 Weeks in the top 40
• 65 Weeks in the top 100
• UK Top 10 Album
• 8 RADIO 1 Playlists
• Streaming: Over 70 million streams of The Balcony on Spotify.