SHEFFIELD indie stars Reverend and the Makers are back with a new album and are close to selling out their latest gig in the South next week.

The Yorkshire band, fronted by ‘Reverend’ Jon McClure, will play a headline set at the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth on Tuesday.

The band’s latest nationwide tour supports their new album, Mirrors, which was released in October and has received universal acclaim for its originality.

There are sychedelic melodies and harmonies on songs like My Mirrors and the group’s latest single, Mr Glass Half Empty, together with some terrific mod beats on Stuck on You.

Full-on rock and roll dominates another song, Blue, which will set things off at the front when played at gigs. There is even touches of Nineties Manchester on Black Widow and The Trip.

Meanwhile, Something to Remember lasts only 90 seconds, but in that time captures an epic orchestral mood that could carry on for three times as long.

While its back to regular indie for The Trip and The Gun, frontman McClure, wife Laura and band mates Ed Cosens, Joe Carnall and Ryan Jenkinson have included Spanish baroque and castanets on tune El Cabrera.

Noel Gallagher, who the band have supported many times during and after Oasis, has said Mirrors “sounds like nothing I’ve heard since the great concept albums of the 1960s.”

Reverend has been busy promoting all over the country with a series of last minute and often chaotic house gigs with locations suggested by core ‘Revarmy’ fans on Twitter.

If you couldn’t get them round to yours, the band have been hosting entertaining live-streamed shows on Facebook from Revs’ garage, including guest sessions by fellow Sheffield bands like The Sherlocks.

Even with all these new sounds, there will still be time for some older hits at The Wedgewood Rooms.

Reverend and the Makers first single, Heavyweight Champion of the World, reached number 8 in 2007, while all of their last four albums, including their debut, The State of Things, have been top twenty hits.

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