Catfish and the Bottlemen to headline Belsonic

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 4th Apr 2025
Last updated 4th Apr 2025

Multi-Platinum-selling, arena filling and festival headlining giants Catfish and the Bottlemen have just announced a headline show in Belfast this summer.

📍 Belsonic, Ormeau Park

📆 Sunday 15th June 2025

Catfish and the Bottlemen’s arena-filling sonic outlook has cemented their place amongst Britain's most successful bands of the 21st Century.

Signing to Island Records in 2014 after years of relentless touring, their debut LP The Balcony surged into the UK Top 10 and helped them scoop British Breakthrough Act at the BRITs before scoring their landmark #1 album with The Ride.

Since then they’ve amassed over one billion streams, two million album sales and are closing in on 10 million single sales. On stage Van McCann possesses unique magnetic energy, and is considered one of modern rock’s great live frontmen. In the five years since releasing their debut album, they’d sold over half a million tickets, and have played to over 2 million people.

How to get tickets:

Tickets on sale Friday 11th April at 10am via www.ticketmaster.ie

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Since then they've amassed over one billion streams, two million album sales and are closing in on 10 million single sales.

On stage Van McCann possesses unique magnetic energy, and is considered one of modern rock's great live frontmen. In the five years since releasing their debut album, they'd sold over half a million tickets, and have played to over 2 million people.

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