Secret Sounds presents
REVEREND AND THE MAKERS (UK)
with special guests
John Curtin Hotel (Carlton, VIC)
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 7:30 pm
One of Britain’s most iconic bands, Reverend and the Makers, has today announced a one-off intimate show in Melbourne this April The show will feature the full band, marking the first time they’ve performed in Australia in nearly two decades. The Sheffield indie ensemble, led by frontman Jon McClure, are also gearing up for the release of new music following the success of the 2023 Top 10 album Heatwave In The Cold North.
Never resting on their laurels and constantly striving to challenge perceptions of the band, Reverend and the Makers have become one of the enduring and great survivors of the British music scene. With a career spanning two decades Jon McClure and his collective of musicians burst onto the scene with their Top 5 Charting album, ‘The State Of Things’. The album spawned the UK Top 10 single, ‘Heavyweight Champion Of The World’. The five albums since have seen the band move through several incarnations, sounds, and lineups, and experience all the highs, and most of the lows, that the music industry has to offer.
Each of the albums has reached the Top 20 of the UK album charts, an impressive unbroken run of six albums. These albums have seen them cut across the creative spectrum, ranging from collective efforts to the frontman’s singular visions. Instead, The Makers is more a sobriquet, a statement of intent, a commitment and a guiding principle that has seen McClure consistently strive to build, innovate, and grow musically and artistically. The Reverend’s story is one of the great survival stories of the music industry as charisma, talent, defiance, and sheer willpower sees the band start a new chapter reenergized and raring to go. With a point to prove, with Heatwave In The Cold North, Reverend and the Makers set about the task in hand armed to the teeth with an arsenal of their biggest, best, and most accessible and ambitious songs to date.
Never resting on their laurels and constantly striving to challenge perceptions of the band, Reverend and the Makers have become one of the enduring and great survivors of the British music scene. With a career spanning two decades Jon McClure and his collective of musicians burst onto the scene with their Top 5 Charting album, ‘The State Of Things’. The album spawned the UK Top 10 single, ‘Heavyweight Champion Of The World’. The five albums since have seen the band move through several incarnations, sounds, and lineups, and experience all the highs, and most of the lows, that the music industry has to offer.
Each of the albums has reached the Top 20 of the UK album charts, an impressive unbroken run of six albums. These albums have seen them cut across the creative spectrum, ranging from collective efforts to the frontman’s singular visions. Instead, The Makers is more a sobriquet, a statement of intent, a commitment and a guiding principle that has seen McClure consistently strive to build, innovate, and grow musically and artistically. The Reverend’s story is one of the great survival stories of the music industry as charisma, talent, defiance, and sheer willpower sees the band start a new chapter reenergized and raring to go. With a point to prove, with Heatwave In The Cold North, Reverend and the Makers set about the task in hand armed to the teeth with an arsenal of their biggest, best, and most accessible and ambitious songs to date.
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