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Heavyweight Champion of the World - 28th May |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
 Reverend And The Makers announce details of UK Tour and debut single - ‘Heavyweight Champion Of The World’
Released 28th May on Wall Of Sound
Download available 8th May
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A strapping, intense 25-year-old, over the past couple of years Jon ‘Reverend’ McClure has established himself as the don of the Sheffield music scene. Before he’d even signed a record deal he was selling-out thousand-plus capacity venues in his home city, curating his night Reverend Soundsystem and collaborating, inspiring and conspiring with the Steel City’s key guitar-slinging players.
And now? He’s ready to unleash his debut single. A spiralling electro-funk anthem, ‘Heavyweight Champion Of The World’ is the definitive eleventh commandment: ‘Thou shalt not be like everybody else’.
“I used to work at a Norwich Union call centre making loads of calls to people who didn’t want to hear my voice and it was soul destroying,” remembers McClure. “I’d see all these people who were like ‘well I earn £15,000 a year and me and my boyfriend are saving for our own house.’ And you’re like ‘fucking hell, man, you’ve gone haven’t ya?’ There’s a light in people’s eyes – and you’d see it slowly draining out of them”.
The single and forthcoming album will be released on Wall Of Sound.
Reverend And The Makers full tour dates :
May
7th Wakefield Escobar
8th Leeds Faversham
10th Nottingham Junktion 7
11th Liverpool Evol @ Korova
13th Sunderland Independent
14th Birmingham Barfly
16th Bristol Louisiana
18th London Fabric
19th Brighton Great Escape
24th Middlesborough Empire
25th Stockton KU Bar
26th Leicester Sumo
27th Sheffield Leadmill
29th Hull Lamp
30th Manchester Roadhouse
31st Newcastle Digital
June
1st Barnsley Cherry Bomb Disco
2nd London Frog
For further information please visit the band’s website www.iamreverend.com or myspace www.myspace.com/reverendmusic.
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