New album ‘Mirrors’, UK tour announced by Reverend & The Makers


Reverend & The Makers live in Manchester (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Reverend & The Makers live in Liverpool (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




Reverend & The Makers will release ‘Mirrors‘, their fifth studio album, on October 9th. Check out ‘Black Widow‘, the first song to be revealed, below.

The album has already drawn praise from Noel Gallagher and Carl Barat of The Libertines after recording sessions at Sheffield’s 2 Fly Studios and the Geejam Studios in Jamaica. It was produced by Dave Sanderson, with the additional assistance of Youth and Alan Smyth.

“So I’m listening to ‘Mirrors’ for the first time and I’m about 15 minutes in when it dawns on me that this is like something that sounds like nothing I’ve heard since the great concept albums of the 60s,” Gallagher says of the record. “It’s at that point that I may have shit in my smoking jacket (in fact I think I did actually shit in my Fez)! Shit title though eh?”

“You can always rely on the Reverend for a volley of lyrical grenades, but ‘Mirrors’ is a magnum opus,” Barat believes.

“He’s a seasoned melodic master too. Just what we needed from Reverend & The Makers.”

An expanded CD/DVD edition of the album will come complete with a film courtesy of director Roger Sargent, featuring footage shot in Jamaica to accompany each track, while the release of a collection of frontman Jon McClure‘s lyrics and poetry, illustrated by Horace Panter of The Specials, will coincide with the record.

Reverend & The Makers tour the UK throughout November and into early December, the dates are:

NOVEMBER
Manchester, Ritz (13)
Sheffield, Academy (14)
Wolverhampton, Wulfurn (16)
Portsmouth, Wedgwood Rooms (17)
London, Koko (18)
Leeds, Stylus (20)
Liverpool, Academy 1 (21)
Glasgow, King Tuts (22)
Newcastle, Riverside (25)
Bristol, Bierkeller (26)
Lowestoft, Aquarium (27)

DECEMBER
Nottingham, Rock City (3)


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