It looks like Catfish & The Bottlemen are teasing a tour announcement

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Catfish & the Bottlemen appear to be teasing a tour announcement.The band tweeted a black-and-white image of a sheet of paper reading ‘5:00pm, DOORS, 6:00pm, SHOWTIME’, suggesting more live shows are on the way.Meanwhile, fans who had signed up to their mailing list received an email simply reading “Thursday February 22”, indicating that is the day they will have more information about the band’s plans.https://t.co/th8WujxtGy pic.twitter.com/uhzDQE4wGF— Catfish&theBottlemen (@thebottlemen) February 12, 2024The 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.

Liam Gallagher is also headlining the festival that day, while the rest of the headline slots are taken up by Blink-182, Gerry Cinnamon, Fred Again..

and Lana Del Rey.The live shows Catfish and the Bottlemen are set to announce will be their first since the departure of guitarist Johnny “Bondy” Bond.In 2022, Bond confirmed he had left the band the year before, alleging that changes in the line-up and the uncertainty about the band’s future had stemmed from “behaviour constantly re-occurring that I found to be intolerable”.“To put it simply, I feel that both the professional and personal relationships had become entirely dysfunctional,” he added in his statement.Bondy went on to explain that he played four summer shows with the band last year as a session musician “as there was nobody else ready to do.