Reverend & The Makers set for Roadmender return following release of new album Is This How Happiness Feels?

The band will be back at the Roadmender on Monday, November 23, with their eighth album due out next month.

The record was produced by Danny Lafrombé and frontman Jon McClure and is the follow up to their previous Top 10 album Heatwave In The Cold North.

The Sheffield five piece’s eagerly awaited new album has been described as their most musically accomplished yet, merging vintage, sparkling, life-affirming soul with contemporary lyrical storytelling.

McClure said: “This album has been a labour of love owing to personal reasons but has emerged as a joyous triumph.

“It’s easily the best thing we’ve ever done and will surprise a few people too.”

The album features previously released singles ‘Late Night Phone Call’, ‘Haircut’ featuring Vicky McClure, ‘UFO’ and ‘Twenty-Seven Past Midnight’.

McClure is joined in the band by guitarist Thomas Dibb, keyboard player and singer Laura McClure, bassist Antonia Pooles and drummer Adam Crofts.

It will follow the Top 10 success of 2023’s Heatwave In The Cold North which hit number six on the Official Charts in 2023, giving the band an 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 number five and also delivered their biggest single in over a decade.

The new 13-track record has been described as McClure at his most vulnerable and musically ambitious.

Last August, Reverend & The Makers marked two decades together with their most ambitious headline show yet - a massive homecoming set for 30,000 fans at Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus.

Tickets for their winter tour go on sale at 10am on Friday, April 24, via https://lnk.to/RATM2026

Reverend & The Makers will play the following dates:

Nov 11 Birmingham O2 Institute

Nov 13 Glasgow SWG3 TV Studio

Nov 14 Newcastle Northumbria University SU

Nov 16 Leeds Beckett SU

Nov 17 Cardiff Tramshed

Nov 19 London Electric Ballroom

Nov 20 Brighton Chalk

Nov 21 Oxford O2 Academy

Nov 23 Northampton Roadmender

Nov 24 Norwich Waterfront

Nov 26 Nottingham Rock City

Nov 27 Manchester Academy

Nov 28 Bristol Electric