Reverend McClure: 'I'm quitting music'

Reverend And The Makers frontman Jon McClure has said he will quit music after his second album.

The Sheffield singer, whose hits include 'Heavyweight Champion Of The World' and 'Open Your Window', claimed that he is "disgusted" by the music industry.

Speaking about recent criticism of his group in NME, McClure told the BBC: "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."

He continued: "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."

McClure's band's second album A French Kiss In The Chaos will be released in 2009.