Reverend and the Makers to quit
20 August 2008
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Reverend and the Makers frontman John McClure says he is quitting music.The 'Heavyweight Champion of the World' singer says he is so disillusioned with the attitudes of the press and music industry that the band's next album will be their last.He told BBC Radio Ulster: "I played a festival recently and 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 anying to do with it any 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."The Yorkshireman claims he was forced into the music industry and has vowed to please himself with next album 'A French Kiss In The Chaos'.He added: "I got herded into that pop game by the management I had at the time. Now I'm gonna go to Venezuela and go on President Hugo Chavez's TV show and I'm gonna go to Lebanon."I would never have been allowed to do that before, I would never have been allowed to say anything of a political nature because it didn't square with their idea of what a pop artist is.
"But in reality, you only get two albums anyway before the industry replaces you, so on this album I might as well do what I want to do and go out telling the truth."
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