Catfish and the Bottlemen post clip of first new music in five years

nme.com:

Back to the graft again, just sold my voice for a long weekend”, over a chugging guitar line. The clip plays over a slow-motion black-and-white video of McCann walking down a corridor.

Check it out below: A post shared by Catfish and the Bottlemen (@catfishandthebottlemen)It comes less than a week after the band appeared to be teasing a tour announcement when they posted a photograph of a sheet of paper reading “5:00pm, DOORS, 6:00pm, SHOWTIME”.

At the same time, those signed up to the band’s mailing list received an email simply reading “Thursday February 22”. The band have not played a show together since 2021, following their headline slots at Reading & Leeds and a pair of outdoor gigs at Singleton Park in Swansea and Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington.

By that time, rumours of them splitting up had already been swirling. They have already been booked to headline Reading and Leeds this year, where they will be performing on the Friday at Leeds and the Sunday at Reading.