Reverend & The Makers land UFO single and reveal close encounters dates with Old Social Clubs Tour
Chart stars Reverend & The Makers today landed new single UFO and close encounters gigs to tour ‘intimate venues’ - which will see them beam down near you!
The Old Social Clubs Tour is described as a seven-date ‘underplay tour’ in November and December - including a homecoming at Sheffield’s Crookes Social Club, on December 5.
The indie stars will also play Carlisle, Dunfermline, Harrogate, Hull, Cambridge and London - ful venue details below.
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Brand-new single UFO, is the third track lifted from their forthcoming eighth studio album, Is This How Happiness Feels?, set for release on April 24, 2026, via Distiller Records.
Mixing brass-laced grooves with Jon McClure’s wry lyrical musings on our obsession with alien life, UFO marks another bold step for the band.
A groovy, sceptic’s rumination on our fixation with alien life, featuring out-of-this-world trumpets from Laura McClure, UFO is the third single to be unveiled from the five-piece.
It comes hot on the heels of their triumphant 20th anniversary homecoming spectacle hat saw 30,000 fans pack Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl for their biggest headline gig to date at Rock N Roll Circus.
Speaking about new single frontman Jon McClure says: “I used to think UFO types were barmy. But maybe they’re not. Nobody knows, do they really? “
The new track follows wo oher tracks, also both also taken from the forthcoming album, Late Night Phone Call and the irresistible summer anthem Haircut, which featured a duet with Jon and actress Vicky McClure.
The two pals, who co-founded Day Disco, were interviewed and performed together on BBC’s The One Show. Jon McClure was also a sofa guest on BBC Breakfast, which saw Haircut soar to no.1 position on iTunes.
Reverend & The Makers seventh studio album, Heatwave In The Cold North, hit number six on the Official Charts in 2023, giving the band a remarkable unbroken streak of seven Top 20 albums to their name. This marked their first Top 10 album since their 2007 debut, 'The State of Things,' which reached No. 5, and also delivered their biggest single in over a decade.
Old Social Clubs Tour 2025 :
26th Nov Carlisle, The Brickyard
27th Nov Dunfermline, British Legion
28th Nov Harrogate, Bilton WMC
1st Dec Hull, The Welly
3rd Dec Cambridge, MASH
5th Dec Sheffield, Crookes Social Club
9th Dec London, Moth Club