Reverend & The Makers release their eagerly anticipated fifth album, Mirrors, through Cooking Vinyl, on Friday 9th October. The first song to be taken from the album, Black Widow, is available from midnight tonight upon preordering Mirrors: http://po.st/RevMakers
Mirrors was recorded at 2 Fly Studios Sheffield and Geejam Studios in Jamaica and was produced by Dave Sanderson with additional production by Youth and Alan Smyth and mixed by Youth. It will be available on CD, Limited edition CD & DVD, 12” Vinyl and digital download. The album can be pre-ordered from the bands website: http://po.st/RevMakers and iTunes: http://po.st/MirriTunes
The special CD & DVD version of Mirrors is available with a film by acclaimed director Roger Sargent, filmed in Jamaica to accompany each song on the album. All formats of the album also include an exclusive twenty-three minute dub version of Mirrors (Overproof Dub by Youth) and bonus radio versions of three of the album tracks.
Reverend & The Makers have also announced a twelve-date UK tour for November and December. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 7th August. The full dates are:
NOVEMBER
FRI 13th Manchester Ritz http://po.st/RevGigsNT
SAT 14th Sheffield O2 Academy http://po.st/RevGigsNT & www.ticketweb.co.uk
MON 16th Wolverhampton Wulfurn http://po.st/RevGigsNT
TUE 17th Portsmouth Wedgwood Rooms http://po.st/RevWR
Wed 18th London Koko http://po.st/RevGigsNT
FRI 20th Leeds
SAT 21st Liverpool O2 Academy http://po.st/RevGigsNT & www.ticketweb.co.uk
SUN 22nd Glasgow King Tuts http://po.st/RevGigsScot
WED 25th Newcastle Riverside http://po.st/RevGigsNT
THU 26th Bristol
FRI 27th Lowestoft Aquarium http://po.st/RevSTicks
DECEMBER
THU 3rd Nottingham Rock City http://po.st/RevAltTick
To coincide with the release of Mirrors singer Jon McClure releases a book of his lyrics and poetry, illustrated by Horace Panter from the Specials, The Lyrics and Poetry of Jon McClure with Illustrations by Horace Panter.
The book features every lyric from Reverened & The Makers as well as poems including Jon McClure’s collaboration with John Cooper Clark. An exclusive sample of the book is available from the bands webstore when you preorder Mirrors: http://po.st/MirrorsPM
Jon McClure adds “Ed (guitarist and fellow songwriter) and I became resolute to make a record that we loved. Why not indulge the overwhelming urge to not play games anymore and set about making some art we are actually proud of rather than the release tour festivals repeat cycle we’d been on since forever. And so we took the files we’d been diligently recording off to Jamaica and spruced them up a bit whilst making a film. The result is the best thing we’ve ever done in my opinion. The reaction when I play it to people is like nothing I’ve seen before, except maybe the first album.”