Reverend & The Makers have shared footage of an Oasis cover they performed alongside Milburn and Arctic Monkeys in 2004.
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“From the vaults,” they wrote on X/Twitter today (January 5) alongside the grainy clip that sees the Sheffield artists take on the Gallagher brothers’ ‘D’ You Know What I Mean?’ for Chris McClure’s “18th birthday in the local boozer”.
Chris, the brother of Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure, was featured smoking on the iconic cover of the Artic Monkey’s debut, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’. Back in 2021, following the album’s 15th anniversary, he shared: “What a record. Met some great people since… literally through having my photo taken. Pleasure to be associated with it.”
Check out the clip below.
From the vaults
Rev, @arcticmonkeys and @milburnmusic doing @oasis for our @chrismcclure86 18th birthday in the local boozer 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Bj3FMs1W9y
— Reverend&TheMakers (@Reverend_Makers) January 5, 2025
More recently, Jon McClure opened up to NME about his relationship with Alex Turner. McClure and Turner met back in 2001 while on a bus, where McClure had asked Turner if he wanted to join his band. The two would be members of Judan Suki alongside Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders.
Their breakout hit ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor‘ references their friendship, with the lyric “Dancing to electropop like a robot from 1984” referring to McClure’s band 1984.
The ‘You Again’ singer has since reflected on their friendship, his ADHD diagnosis and the group’s new festive single ‘Late Night Phone Call’.
“I understand myself better,” McClure told us of his ADHD diagnosis. “When I was 24, I thought I knew everything and I’d gob off to NME about everything. I knew fuck all. Looking back, to when I was kicking off at people, I was probably quite poorly for most of my career.
He added that he wasn’t doing well mentally and said with the addition of drugs alongside “my best mate [Alex Turner] being in the biggest band in the world and feeling jealous of him, it was a bad mix.”
“Now I understand myself, ADHD is like a special power I’ve not known how to harness before,” he continued. “I’ve got four unfinished novels, which are all class as ideas, but I’ve not known how to finish them until now. I storyboarded the ‘Late Night Phone Call’ video, I’m Day Fever’s CEO. With everything before, I’d think I’d better get someone else to finish something.
