Catfish and the Bottlemen perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 23, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. OAKLAND — Led by frontman Van McCann’s moves and inexhaustible hyperactivity, Catfish and the Bottlemen performed with stunning stage presence at their Fox Theater show Saturday. Catfish and the Bottlemen perform at the…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Compared to its neighbor across the Bay, Oakland still gets a bad rep and not too many breaks. San Francisco is getting its basketball team, Las Vegas its football team, and many of its accomplishments are buried under the problems. Still, Oakland, and the…

Green Day performs at Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Dec. 11, 2016 The East Bay’s favorite punk rockers, Green Day, today announced they were expanding their summer tour in support of their Revolution Radio album to stadiums, including an Aug. 5 show at the…

SAN FRANCISCO — Catfish and the Bottlemen found a formula for mainstream success, at least in the United Kingdom. Their hard-charging, uptempo anthems have attracted the fans of Oasis, Kaiser Chiefs and other Brit pop bands, and the band fits neatly into that genre. It’s been a while since a…

Not all musicians are artists. In fact, Van McCann, the singer and principal songwriter for U.K. garage rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen, does not see himself as one. Bowie, Gaga, McCartney: Those are artists. And McCann? “I’m the frontman of this band, the singer of Catfish,” McCann said…

Catfish and the Bottlemen. Courtesy photo. Growing up in coastal Wales, a 90-minute drive from Liverpool, Van McCann fell in love with Britpop and garage rock, the kind that was coming from the U.K. in the form of Oasis, the Arctic Monkeys, the Stereophonics, the Kooks and the Fratellis.…