Reverend & The Makers Announce Autumn Tour

Love Music News are pleased to announce that Reverend & The Makers will be touring in October 2012.

Here at Love Music News there is nothing more exciting than announcing artists tour/new  from our home towns. Reverend & The Makers are an indie pop band based in ‘The Steel City’ of Sheffield.  Front man Jon McClure nicknamed ‘The Reverend’ brought several musicians together to create ‘The Makers’ in 2005, and were signed to Wall of Sound Records after sharing a light with founder Mark Jones in a London Club.

Since then Reverend & The Makers have supported  fellow Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys and American alternative rock band Red Hot Chilli Peppers as well as playing at Glastonbury Festival, Carling Weekend, T in the Park,  and T4 on the beach, as well as producing ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World’ on download only, and touring the UK. Unfortunately the band hit bad times when their drummer Richy Westley left to start his own band and the front man Jon McClure decided he was going to leave the band.

However the band are now solid and ready to perform again, and have  announced an extensive headline tour of the UK in October following the quick sell out of their dates in May. These shows will be in support of the band’s third album, entitled ‘@reverend_makers’, scheduled for release on 18^th June 2012. It is also the first commercial album to be named after an artist’s Twitter tag.

They will also be supporting Red Hot Chili Peppers at Knebworth Park and Sunderland’s Stadium Of Light this summer – details below.

Frontman Jon McClure said “Made up to play live again with the Makers! Been way too long. And after we’ve been on tour with Noel we should be super on it! Dancefloor goodness! See ya there x”

The band are currently supporting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds on their UK arena dates.

 The dates are as follows:

Red Hot Chlli Peppers Support Dates

23^rd June – Knebworth Park

24^th June – Stadium Of Light, Sunderland

 

Festival Dates

2^nd June – Playfest, Pontefract

30^th June – Greenzone Festival, Loughborough

4^th August – Y-Not Festival, Derbyshire

18^th August – V Festival, Chelmsford

19^th August – Summer Sundae, Leicester

19^th August – V Festival, Stafford

 

October Headline Tour

11th October – Newcastle, O2 Academy

12th October – Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms

13th October – Liverpool, O2 Academy 2

14^th October – Manchester, HMV Ritz

17th October – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

18th October – Leeds, Stylus

19th October – Norwich, Open

20^th October – Sheffield, O2 Academy

21st October – Birmingham, O2 Academy

23rd October – Brighton, Concorde 2

24th October – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

25th October – Bristol, O2 Academy

26th October –  London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire