Catfish and the Bottlemen

Catfish And The Bottlemen have just been confirmed to headline the BBC Introducing Stage at this year’s Radio 1 Big Weekend on May 24th 2014.

The festival headline slot sits amidst Catfish And The Bottlemen’s 17 date UK headlining tour, sandwiched between a slot at Manchester’s Dot To Dot Festival and a show at Newcastle’s Cluny venue.

Catfish And The Bottlemen have huge plans this summer and you can take a look at the full list of UK shows/festivals that the band has planned between now and the end of August below:

9 May LEICESTER The Scholar Bar (Academy)
10 May BIRMINGHAM Institute, Temple
11 May OXFORD Academy 2
18 May GUILDFORD Boileroom
19 May SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
20 May LONDON Dingwalls SOLD OUT
21 May CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
23 May MANCHESTER Dot To Dot Festival
24 May GLASGOW Radio 1 Big Weekend (BBC Introducing Stage Headline)
26 May NEWCASTLE Cluny
27 May MIDDLESBOROUGH Westgarth
28 May WREXHAM Central Station
29 May DERBY The Victoria Inn
30 May YORK Duchess
5 July GLOUCESTERSHIRE Barn on The Farm
11 July LIVERPOOL X&Y Festival
12 July ABERSOCH Wakestock Festival
15 July MAGALUF Mallorca Rocks (supporting Jake Bugg)
16 July SAN ANTONIO Ibiza Rocks (supporting Jake Bugg)
18 July OXFORDSHIRE Truck Festival
19 July SOUTHWOLD Latitude Festival
20 July NORTH DEVON Somersault Festival
25 July SURREY Redfest
26 July NORTH YORKSHIRE Deer Shed Festival
27 July SHEFFIELD Tramlines Festival
1 August KENDAL Kendal Calling
2 August DERBYSHIRE Y Not Festival
9 August LEICESTERSHIRE Strawberry Fields Festival
22 August READING Reading & Leeds Festival
23 August LEEDS Reading & Leeds Festival
30 August BINGLEY Bingley Music Live

Official video for the Catfish and the Bottlemen single ‘Kathleen‘, out now as a digital download and officially due for release on vinyl on April 14th 2014 via Communion/Island Records. The track has already scooped Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record In The World and been Radio 1’s Track of the Day, and comes fresh off the back of the band’s appearance in January on the bill of Radio 1’s Future Festival. ‘Kathleen‘ was recorded in collaboration with Jim Abbiss, the man behind Arctic Monkeys’ début studio album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not‘.