Catfish And The Bottlemen

Here Are 13 Facts You Need To Know About Catfish And The Bottlemen

From being named after an Australian busker to getting kicked out of school for rehearsing too much, here are 13 facts you need to know about Catfish and the Bottlemen...

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 15:49

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You know when you're gone I struggle at night
Dreams of you fucking me all the time
And I know you're tied up
And I know your phone's fucked
I'm craving your calls like a soldier's wife

I wanna bring you home myself
Bring you home myself

Come back, move in, mess my place
Chest infect me, waste my days
'Cause I know you love to drive my up the wall
I know you love to drive me up the wall

I wanna bring you home myself
Bring you home myself

And I'm so impatient when you're not mine
I just want to catch up on all the lost times
And I'll say I'm sorry if I sound sordid
'Cause all I really ever want is you

Offer my hand and I'll take your name
Share my shower, kiss my frame
'Cause I wanna carry all of your children
And I wanna call 'em stupid shit

Writer(s): Dale Norton, Ryan Mccann Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com

Catfish and the Bottlemen are primed for a massive 2017. They’re jetting off on a lengthy world tour, (you can check them next at the Isle Of Wight festival over 8-11 June), and the group told BBC Newsbeat that they’re ready to go make their third record later this year, too.

So, if you’re not yet familiar with the indie rockers, now’s your chance to brush up.

From being named after an Australian busker to getting kicked out of school for rehearsing too much, here are 13 facts you need to know about Catfish and the Bottlemen...

13 Facts You Need To Know About Catfish And The Bottlemen

The band’s name comes from an Australian busker called Catfish The Bottleman, who “used to sit there with a washing line of bottles of different volumes of water.”

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Ryan ‘Van’ McCann, the band’s frontman, was named after the singer Van Morrison, because his dad is a big fan.

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McCann was a test-tube baby, and references this in the band’s song, ‘Fallout’: “I was a test-tube baby / That’s why nobody gets me”.

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McCann and past member Billy Bibby started out by playing in Bibby’s parent’s home, a Bed & Breakfast. Van’s parents also ran a bed and breakfast.

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As childhood friends from Llandudno in Wales, the band got kicked out of school for being “completely focused on the band”. Apparently they just couldn’t stop rehearsing.

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And, as it turns out, the group take rehearsing very seriously indeed. “If anyone is late,” McCann said, “they have to stand outside in the rain.”

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Of their old teachers, the band said, "It's nice those teachers who were like, 'You're never going to make anything of yourself' are now driving to work with us on [the radio]."

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Catfish & The Bottlemen are huge Arctic Monkeys fans, and started out by trying to copy them, "I think we started by ripping them off and, when we got good, tried not to any more," said McCann.

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Ewan McGregor’s daughter, Clara, took the photo used on the sleeve for ‘Hourglass’, one of the band’s singles. McGregor became fairly close to the band afterwards.

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When McCann was 16, he handed a demo tape of his music to Serge, the guitarist from Kasabian. Serge turned him down. We wonder what the pair would say to each other now…

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Catfish & The Bottlemen are signed to Communion Records, which is owned and run by Mumford & Sons’ keyboard player, Ben Lovett.

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The band have two albums out, 2014’s The Balcony and 2016’s The Ride.

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Van McCann once suggested (with his tongue placed firmly in his cheek) that he only got into music so that he could buy his mum a jacuzzi: “Why wouldn’t you want to get on the radio and buy a jacuzzi for your mum?”

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