REV ARMY! We are hugely excited to welcome South Yorkshire’s own Reverend & The Makers to the AMF Main Stage in 2024! Anyone who knows anything about festivals will tell you – if Rev’s on your lineup you’re doing something right. We couldn’t be happier to have him on and we know he will get the crowd bouncing with a massive set filled start to finish with anthemic bangers.
Reverend & The Makers Bio
Never resting on their laurels and constantly striving to challenge perceptions of the band, Reverend and the Makers have become one of the enduring and great survivors of the British music scene.
With a career spanning two decades, Jon McClure and his collective of musicians burst onto the scene with their Top 5 charting debut album, ‘The State of Things’. The album spawned the UK top 10 single “Heavyweight Champion of the World”. The five albums since have seen the band move through several incarnations, sounds, and line-ups, experiencing all the highs, and most of the lows, that the music industry has to offer. Each album has reached the Top 20 of the UK album charts, an impressive unbroken run of six albums.
These albums have seen them cut across a creative spectrum, ranging from collective efforts to the frontman’s singular visions. Instead, The Makers is more a sobriquet, a statement of intent, a commitment, and a guiding principle that has seen McClure consistently strive to build, innovate, and grow musically and artistically. The Reverend’s story is one of the great survival stories of the music industry, as charisma, talent, defiance, and sheer willpower see the band start a new chapter, reenergized and raring to go.
With a point to prove, with ‘Heatwave In The Cold North’, Reverend And The Makers set about the task in hand armed to the teeth with an arsenal of their biggest, best, and most accessible and ambitious songs to date.
Andy is a Co-Founder of Askern Music Festival. Experienced in the events industry, there’s no one better for organising huge bands and artists to play in AMF – Doncaster’s biggest party!
