Reverend And The Makers Newcastle And Sunderland

I saw Reverend And The Makers at The Roundhouse at The Crisis Charity gig at Camden Roundhouse in December 2008. I thought they were their energy and enthusiasm dragged me in - on the back of that gig I bought their debut album which I have enjoyed.

A photo pass for the appearance at HMV had been arranged but I also thought it would be good to document the guerrilla gigs in Sunderland and Newcastle.

They played the first gig outside The Bridges shopping centre in Sunderland - this was announced that morning by Jon McLure on Twitter

Later in the afternoon they moved up to Newcastle and played a half hour set on the main shopping street ( Northumberland Street) before continuing to the gig across the road at the official gig in HMV record store.

It was reminiscent of Joe Strummer and Paul Simonen from The Clash busking in Newcastle back in May 1985.

My photographs of the busking were picked up and used on the front page of The Sunderland Echo and also by the NME - hallelujah

DW