Reverend And The Makers Return!

Reverend and The Makers have been pretty quiet since their second album, A French Kiss In The Chaos, was released back in 2009. However Jon McClure A.K.A the Reverend recently posted this on the band's Facebook page which can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/ReverendAndTheMakers . Sounds like album 3 should drop in the next few months all being well. The band are doing a couple of gigs next week as warm-up shows before they support Noel Gallagher on some of his UK dates; I've put all the details at the bottom. Chances are some new songs will be aired so I'll post videos on here when they surface. Anyway this is what The Rev had to say:

"Afternoon.

So we've been away for a minute. Well more than a minute.

Truth be said I fancied a bit of time out the bear-pit for half an hour to get myself a bit of a holiday, and well, calm the fuck down n enjoy myself a bit.

Not that I sat completely on my arse for the best part of two years.

Errrr ..... (I’ve kind of forgot what your supposed to talk about in a post even tho I decided to write one!!!)… I’ve been a few mad places in Asia, Africa and South America which was unbelievable. I bought some daft instruments while I was away too - none of which I can play but they look r8 good in my house.

I did a bit more with Afrika Express. If you don’t know what it is then check it out at www.africaexpress.co.uk - it’s a thing Damon Albarn set up and its fuckin’ amazing.

I did a little gig with Mick Jones from The Clash at The Leadmill and I got up and sang ‘Bankrobber’ with him, which was a proper buzz.

Mostly though, I had a soundsystem with my mates Jimmy Welsh and Matic Mouth which was mega. We threw house parties and warehouse parties, and generally got daft doing parties for nish, until we got a bit too daft and the police started turning up to every do we had.

So, we knocked that on the head and I decided I might fancy getting back to the day job... I just kind of fell into writing this album by accident and the next thing was it was nearly finished. I’m bang into it - which you'll all expect me to say. But I enjoyed making it more than any album I’ve made so far. It’s all up and mainly bangers, so we had a right old laugh in the process. Special thanks go to Ed the Pilot and Jimmy and his Onkens.

The album is being produced by a combination of Jason Cox and James Dring (Gorrrilaz, Good the Bad & the Queen) and Youth (The Verve, U2) and for what its worth there's no politics on the album. Why not? Well as much as I’m into all that and I still believe much the same, I’ve said it now and it quickly becomes boring if you labour the point too much. In truth I sort of bored myself with it. I’ve took down the Che Guevara poster for this album, you may or may not be glad to know.

So we have some new band members who have joined as well. Ryan Jenkinson on drums who used to play with a band I used to be into called This Girl. On bass we have borrowed Joe Carnall from the Book Club. Check them out they are ace (www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Carnall-The-Book-Club). Joe was the singer in Milburn, who were the band that kinda kicked off the Sheffield thing a few years ago, so I’m made up to have them both play with us.

The album’s out this summer and will be preceded by a tour supporting Noel Gallagher on his arena dates around the UK. Not even gonna lie, we are well looking forward to it, and hope we'll see you there - and if not I hope you might catch us on our own headline tour later in the year. We’ll give you details of that soon.

Nice one, ta for reading, and good to be back.

The Rev x

PS. Reverend & The Makers have signed a new worldwide record deal with Cooking Vinyl home of The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, etc. The first single will be available for FREE download from this very Facebook page the week before the Noel Gallagher tour starts, then expect another one around early April, followed by the album (more details to follow). "

GIGS

Friday 10th Feb - S7ven, Coventry

Saturday 11th Feb - FAC251, Manchester (FREE GIG!)

Sunday 12th Feb - Fibbers, York

Monday Feb 13th - Manchester MEN Arena (Supporting Noel Gallagher) 

Tuesday Feb 14th - Aberdeen P&J Arena (Supporting Noel Gallagher) 

Sunday Feb 19th - Sheffield Motorpoint Arena (Supporting Noel Gallagher) 

Friday Feb 24th - Glasgow SECC (Supporting Noel Gallagher) 

Sunday Feb 26th - London O2 Arena (Supporting Noel Gallagher) 

Thursday 1st March - Birmingham NIA (Supporting Noel Gallagher)