Van McCann with Live4ever at SXSW (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Catfish & The Bottlemen have shared some more details of their new album and a spring UK arena tour.
The UK arena dates are a part of a European tour which has been arranged to open in Galway on April 28th. The album is due out just before then, on the 26th, and will be called The Balance. It was recorded over the course of a year at Grouse Lodge in Moate, Ireland and The Chapel in Lincolnshire, all mixed by Craig Silvey. “We loved living in the same place,” frontman Van McCann reflects.
“We were staying there the whole time, so we were waking up around each other and working until we needed to go to bed. Jacknife was always up. He was the first up and the last awake.”
“It’s good when you’re completely engulfed in recording in a place like that, living together, because every day and all day it was about the songs. We had fun too; they were the funniest album sessions we’ve done.”
Tour dates:
April
28 – Galway, Leisureland
30 – Dublin, The Olympia Theatre
May
2 – Brighton, Centre
4 – Coventry, Ericsson Indoor Arena
5 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
7 – Sheffield, FlyDSA Arena
8 – Manchester, Arena
13 – Madrid, La Riviera
14 – Barcelona, Razzmatazz
16 – Milan, Alcatraz
18 – Berlin, Huxleys Neue Welt
20 – Amsterdam, Melkweg