Van McCann, Catfish & The Bottlemen (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Catfish & The Bottlemen have pulled out of a tour of Australia and Japan.
“It is with huge regret that, due to illness in the band and crew, Catfish and the Bottlemen will not be playing their planned shows this week in Australia and Japan; including Splendour in the Grass and Fuji Rocks festivals,” a statement posted to Facebook reads.
“The band are obviously absolutely devastated not to be making the trip and hope fans will understand.”
The tour had been due to start on July 22nd in Melbourne and, as the statement suggests, would have included additional festival appearances.
The Welsh band have been busy all year promoting their debut album ‘The Balcony‘, and visited the South By Southwest festival in March when we sat down with frontman Van McCann.
“Because we’ve been together for eight years we’ve been through every up and every down of anything any band could be involved in, down to coaxing our van to the next station because it’s run out of petrol on the motorway,” he told us.
“We felt like we were fifteen again on that stage, like we had something to prove. It was exciting to be in a band that can still do that. It’s like being with a girl for ages but still fancying her like the day you met her.”
