Catfish & The Bottlemen will play 2018 outdoor shows in Newcastle and Cardiff

Catfish & The Bottlemen will play outdoor shows in Cardiff and Newcastle next year.

The band’s first live plans for 2018 will take them to Spillers Wharf in Newcastle on Friday, May 25th, and the Cardiff Castle on Sunday, July 29th. A general sale of tickets starts on December 15th at 10am (GMT), limited to four per person in Cardiff and six in Newcastle.

These shows will continue the band’s rise to up the UK live ladder since their second studio album The Ride went to number one upon its release last year:

“Sardy’s polished production brings the pounding basslines of Benjamin Blakeway to the fore on The Strokes influenced ‘Soundcheck’, where garage-rock assaults are offset by arena filling solo bursts and a reflecting bridge section, with the chorus cries of, “I wanted everything at once, until you blew me out my mind, and now I don’t need nothing”, chiming with a general sense of battling priorities between work and play,” our review reads.

“There is a continuation of the crescendo-laden-verse-to-amped-chorus theme until the perceived follow up to the popular acoustic interlude of ‘Hourglass’ on the debut arrives with a similarly introspective tale of tour romance on ‘Glasgow’.”