Catfish and the Bottlemen confirm additional dates for UK and Ireland summer tour

Catfish and the Bottlemen has confirmed additional dates for their UK and Ireland summer tour.

The Van McCann-led group will perform at Heaton Park in Manchester on June 13, 2025, to kick off their tour. New stop-offs in Belfast and Dublin have since been added, following the cancellation of their gigs their due to illness in August 2024. New dates in Belfast, Dublin, and Glasgow were announced, with The Wombats and The Fratellis set to support Catfish and the Bottlemen at their show in Glasgow. A full list of tour dates can be found below.

• June 13 – Heaton Park, Manchester
• June 16 – Fairview Park, Dublin
• July 9 – Glasgow Green, Glasgow (with special guests The Wombats and The Fratellis)
• August 1 – Principality Stadium, Cardiff
• August 3 – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London

Tickets for the newly announced show dates go on general sale today, and are available here. New show announcements come over a year after the band debuted new song, Showtime. The song was performed in the band’s Leeds Festival set but has not been followed up with any new material.

Second single Suntitled featured on the FC25 soundtrack, though has not received a release as of yet outside of the game.

Catfish and the Bottlemen’s return to the stage has been staggered by illness and tour cancellations. Their lead song, Showtime, did not fare well either. In a review from Cult Following, the band’s studio return was dubbed a song that sounds “big but are not themselves huge turns of form.

“Showtime may mark the return of Catfish and the Bottlemen but it deviates very little from what you already know and hear. Indie rock has moved on well beyond the likes of Catfish and the Bottlemen. Just hear something from Sam Fender, Courting or The Last Dinner Party to see how the genre has been broken down, rebuilt and influenced by the 1980s pop narrative.”

Follow-up track Suntitled, which is yet to release on streaming services, fared no better. In a review of the track, Cult Following called it a “messy song which reflects the collapse of the return.”