We went to see Catfish and the Bottlemen at their sold out Sheffield date at The Plug last week.
The band played their highly anticipated debut album in full, the set list as follows:
Rango
Pacifier
Sidewinder
Fallout
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Business
Kathleen
Homesick
Hourglass
Cocoon
Tyrants
The support band, Honeyblood, preceded the main act, a band who many people would describe as too good to be a support band and those people would be right, the two piece girl band mesmerised the crowd and put on a show that was far from a drag, like many support acts can be. Not much later, it was time for the main event. Van McCann commandeered the stage as soon as he stepped onto it, greeted by a huge wall of sound from the Sheffield crowd. There was a surprisingly small amount of speaking by the front man, just a few song introductions and an anecdote of the band fondly remembering a gig they’d played in Sheffield the year before in a much smaller venue, firmly proving how far the band has come in such a short space of time. The venue, although larger than the one the band were talking about wasn’t huge and had the stage and the audience so close it gave an incredibly close, intimate feel.
The band made no mistakes and if they did they were undetectable, it was everything you could want from a gig and you couldn’t leave it for people exclaiming just how incredible it was. I could not fault them at all.
RIFFED’s rating: 10/10
Posted by Millie Johnson.
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