![]() ![]() To celebrate the couple travelled extensively around Australia with their two-year son, whose “first experience of live music was at Sydney harbour watching a busker called Catfish the Bottleman playing his drum kit”. It didn’t work until the last round and Van is the result – a test tube “miracle” baby. However, McCann’s parents refused to give up, working two jobs in order to afford IVF. So where does the band’s daft name, which unhelpfully recalls Hootie & the Blowfish, come from? Well, Van’s mother was run over as a child and was informed she couldn’t have children. All my money goes on fags and tea… and helicopters,” he quips. “Whenever I get money I buy my parents a meal. ![]() “No, I don’t like money, I don’t like what it does to people,” he says. I bet they were at their kids’ bedside put 101 Dalmatians on for them, went to the gig and they came back from the gig before the credits came on. ![]() “I went to see Beyoncé and Jay Z in New York and straight after the gig two helicopters turned up and collected them. “People are afraid of saying they want to sell out, but for me that’s what it’s all about, getting on ketchup adverts and all that,” he claims. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Redferns via Getty Images) ![]()
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