Reverend & The Makers' Jon McClure talks new music ahead of headlining Rock N Roll Circus 2025.
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00:00What can they expect from this year's Rock and Roll Circus, the Reverend Dion, on August 30th and what message do you have for them?
00:07Well, it's going to be an event that's going to be, anybody who's ever seen us knows we bring a big party.
00:12It's going to be a big sing-along party. Friends, family, we're going to make you sing, dance.
00:18Bit emotional, going to have a tribute to my dad, there's going to be Steve Zashurbin, there's going to be a John McClure senior bar.
00:24And I'd really like to meet your mate Paul Sampson and have my photo took with him, maybe you could meet my brother Chris.
00:30That's going to be an interesting one to set up.
00:32It'd be nice, wouldn't it, because obviously everybody tells us we look alike, so it'd be nice to meet them.
00:36My mum's going to be there and just friends, family, Sheffield community, hopefully we can fill that tent and just give Sheffield a good old party.
00:44And I think for 50 quid, you're not going to get a better party this summer.
00:47In terms of new music, can we expect any new music in the midst from Reverend and the Magus?
00:51There's a new album recorded, obviously we had a little Christmas hit, we've got a five-inch chart.
00:56We were very pleased we'd out-raised a bunch of money for the Samaritans at Christmas.
01:00And then that's going to be on a new album that I've recorded here in Sheffield.
01:04Obviously, I don't want to do it like Noel, it's the best album since definitely maybe,
01:08but it's the best thing I've ever done, it's class.
01:11And I've played Steve a couple of tunes, he's heard of them.
01:14Brilliant, great catcher.
01:15So there's a level of intimacy by focusing on the city and focusing on growing your base here,
01:21taking part in rock and roll circuses you've done.
01:24And you said you've recorded a new album as well, so it's some of the best you've done.
01:28Yeah.
01:29There's an intimacy that comes with that one.
01:31Do you still see aspirations for new career heights?
01:34Or do you see it as I'm comfortable where I am and I don't want to grow any bigger?
01:38What do you want to see in the next 20 years?
01:39No, I feel like, dead ambitious.
01:40I've just toured in Australia, played my first ever gig in Australia.
01:44The gig were full, they were all bouncing around.
01:47I've been blasting for the first time in 12 years this year.
01:53Going back to Mexico, we had a bunch of fans loving us in Mexico last year when we played over there.
01:59And I feel like we've had a good run with radio, we've had seven in a row on radio too.
02:04So I feel that dead ambitious, the Sheffield thing is interesting because this is a soul record.
02:10I was going to go to America or somewhere and I got up phone to Richard Alley and he was like,
02:15listen, your mojo's in your own city.
02:17And he were trying to explain to me that you can make great music here and then take it round the world.
02:23And I think them days where you had to go to like Capitán to London and be like,
02:26oh, can you sign me to record label, mister?
02:29They're gone now.
02:30You can live here and be very successful as Richard Alley and bring me the horizon and then people prove.
02:36I think you can use Sheffield as your springboard to the rest of the world.
02:40And I think this city is amazing.
02:41You've only to look at tramlines, aren't you?
02:43And what Rayton has done in part in Rotherham last year.
02:47I think this city is great, but equally like that don't mean you have to be in Chile in any way.
02:51You can take it all over, can't you?
02:53Yeah, there's a bunch of singles that are going to come out.
02:56I think it's going to surprise people because, A, because my collaborators are a bit random.
03:00And that's going to shock a few people, but also just music's not what people are expecting.
03:05And I've found like, I've worked out the code, like what to do.
03:11And I also, I got diagnosed with ADHD a bit back and like, since I've known I had that, I like, or just stopped doing that because that's that in it.
03:20I never, it's a bit, it's not a sob story.
03:23It's a good thing.
03:24It's a positive because I've worked out what to do with tunes and like to a point where I don't think I'll ever write a shit in again.
03:29And if I'd have known that at 21, like I said, it would have been a different story.
03:33But yeah, there's going to be like a single in August and then another one later on in the year and then maybe album's going to come.
03:40It's a bit delayed this album, like not like Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy, 14 years are delayed, but it's been a minute like messing around with it because of me dad being poorly and why have you?
03:51But it's going to, I think it's going to knock people's socks off.
03:53I do, I think I'm dead like encouraged and happy and positive about it.
03:57So yeah, good vibes mate.