Reverend And The Makers' Jon McClure to quit music?

Aug 19, 2008

Reverend And The Makers frontman Jon McClure has claimed he will quit the music industry in January 2009.

McClure told BBC Radio Ulster's Across the Line that he was disappointed with the music industry: "I played a festival recently - I put up a peace sign and got the crowd to put up a peace sign. It was written in the music press that my asking people to put up a peace sign was a crassism."

"Now if it's a crassism to ask people to put up a peace sign at a time when we're at war in two countries, we're shafted. And therefore I'm going to retire from the music industry in January because I'm disgusted by it. I don't want nothing to do with it no more."

"I'm going to retire from the music industry because it's run by rich white men who are very conservative and have been around too long. They don't wanna hear anybody with anything truly rebellious to say and that's why British indie music has stalled for the last ten years."

Entirely coincidentally, and naturally of such unquestionable quality (and in no way derivative baggy tripe) that there would be no need to use the same press he hates to desperately drum up a modicum of interest, Reverend and the Makers release their second album...actually, if he hates the industry and the press that much, he wouldn't want us to tell you anything about it.

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