Catfish & The Bottlemen headlined Leeds Festival last night (August 23). Here’s everything they played.
The band are headlining Reading and Leeds festival for the second time, and will play Reading’s main stage tomorrow (Sunday August 25) at 8:10pm.
In one of the weekend’s most highly-anticipated performances, frontman Van McCann delighted fans with a setlist jam-packed with hits spanning their three albums. The Welsh band kicked off their set with ‘Longshot’, followed by ‘Kathleen’ and ‘Soundcheck’.
They later played ‘Twice’, Homesick’ and ‘Outside’, before leading fans in a high-energy singalong of ‘7’, taken from their 2016 album ‘The Ride‘. Most of the tracks played came from their 2014 debut ‘Balcony‘, including set-closer ‘Cocoon’
Check out the setlist, and footage of their performance, below.
Catfish & The Bottlemen’s Leeds Festival 2024 setlist was:
‘Longshot’
‘Kathleen’
‘Soundcheck’
‘Pacifier’
‘Twice’
‘Fallout’
‘Conversation’
‘Homesick’
‘2all’
‘Rango’
‘Outside’
‘Fluctuate’
‘7’
‘Cocoon’
catfish and the bottlemen singing cocoon at leeds today
i am so emotional pic.twitter.com/jSQij92lkq— maja | seeing joost!!!.€:):) ⚽️🕊️ (@waveyfingdavey) August 23, 2024
catb at leeds festival!!! pic.twitter.com/CjkjVMePe0
— catfish and the bottlemen files (@catbfiles) August 23, 2024
Catfish & The Bottlemen announced their return with their comeback single ‘Showtime‘, which the band previously teased by posting a six-second snippet of the track on their social media channels back in February. The band also released a pre-order of ‘Showtime’ on a white 7″ vinyl pressing along with new merchandise.
Last month, the band shared the bonus track ‘ASA’ from their upcoming 10th anniversary reissue of ‘The Balcony’. The track was originally released as the B-side to ‘Rango’ in 2013.
The Welsh band are preparing to commemorate a decade since their seminal debut album was released. The reissue is set to drop September 16 – pre-order yours here.
Along with ‘ASA’, ‘The Balcony’ and its 10th-anniversary reissue is set to feature Ewan McGregor’s cover of ‘Hourglass’, ‘Rango’ (single version) and three other bonus tracks.
Additionally, there will be a limited-edition 7″ singles box set on offer, with only 2,000 copies available to purchase.
They also announced their first-ever stadium tour, set to kick off in August 2025. Tickets are on sale now and you can get yours here.
Reading & Leeds Festivals 2024 kicked off yesterday (August 23) at their usual sites of Richfield Avenue (Reading) and Bramham Park (Leeds) – see here for how you can follow along at home on BBC iPlayer and elsewhere if you were not able to secure a ticket.
The festival boasts Fred Again.., Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Blink-182 and Gerry Cinnamon as its six headliners this year.
Raye, Spiritbox, Fontaines D.C., Reneé Rapp, Pendulum, Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, Nia Archives, Two Door Cinema Club, Neck Deep, The Wombats, Rachel Chinouriri, Hak Baker, The Last Dinner Party and more are also expected to play.
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