The Maccabees have confirmed their comeback for 2025.
The band – formed of Orlando Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White, Rupert Jarvis, Sam Doyle, Robert Dylan Thomas, Elliott Andrews and Will White – parted ways in 2016, after 12 years together.
However, earlier this week they sent fans into a frenzy after posting on their social media channels for the first time in seven years, revealing a brand new logo.
They also shared a link on Instagram Stories where fans could sign up for upcoming news updates.
Now, the indie band have confirmed their comeback, and are hinting that they may be embarking on a tour in 2025.
2025. https://t.co/nBTi6sfIPL pic.twitter.com/40OAmoHcfw
— The Maccabees (@themaccabees) October 25, 2024
Taking to social media this morning (October 25), the band shared a new clip with fans. It shows a compilation of archived footage from their early days, all the way up until their split. As the music playing over the top begins to reach its climax, the video cuts to the new band logo and reads “28/10/2024” – indicating an announcement will be arriving on Monday.
Similarly, on their official YouTube channel, the band shared a clip of them performing the 2010 song ‘No Kind Words’ live to an energetic crowd. “This was the last time,” they wrote in the caption.
News of reunion tour dates are expected to be shared imminently.
The Maccabees shared four studio albums, ‘Colour It In’ (2007), ‘Wall Of Arms’ (2009), ‘Given To The Wild’ (2012) and ‘Marks To Prove It’ (2015), and each made its way into the Official Top 40 albums charts.
They shared news of their split in August 2016, confirming that it was an amicable decision between the members.
While there was some talk of possible farewell tour dates from the members, nothing materialised, and Felix White and Hugo White came together again in August 2023 under the musical project, 86TVs.
After sharing details of their self-titled debut album earlier this year, the band recently returned with the single ‘Someone Else’s Dream’ and announced their biggest UK and European tour to date.
As for Orlando Weeks, the musician shared his debut solo record, ‘A Quickening‘ back in 2020, and went on to confirm the follow-up record, ‘Hop Up’.
Earlier this year, he dropped his simmering single ‘Dig’ featuring Wet Leg‘s Rhian Teasdale – a single from another solo LP called ‘Loja’.
News of the Maccabee’s reformation comes after Felix White spoke to NME about the prospects of a reunion this summer.
When asked if he had plans to celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of the last Maccabees album, White responded: “I haven’t spoken to anyone about it. Sometimes someone from Fiction, the label that put our records out, says, ‘This is an anniversary for that’. But no one’s got in touch with me about [the 10th anniversary].”
Recalling how there have been a number of huge indie anniversary tours in the works recently, he added: “I like the classic album tours that people do – I’m really into that. So it’s a weird one with The Maccabees, yeah. We’re not doing any of that. We’re sort of just doing our own lives, which feels pretty good. Where we left it at Ally Pally… it’d be so difficult to replicate.”
