(Wednesday August 20, 2008 01:02 PM)
Reverend And The Makers frontman John McClure claims he will quit the music industry after his band's next album.The Sheffield act will release second full-length "The French Kiss in the Chaos" sometime in 2009, but McClure has apparently grown tired of the "rich men" ruling the commercial roost."I don't want anything to do with this industry, it absolutely stinks," he told BBC 6 Music."I feel like a sore thumb in a piranha pool in this industry. I don't like the way it's all run by rich men in their 50s who went to private school. It's not something I want to be part of."McClure, who plans to "retire and become a pedal taxi driver", also aimed a barb the way of other guitar bands, implying that artistic progression was being compromised in favour of bankable repetition."You get these bands who have a few hits, say like the Pigeon Detectives, who come out with another album trying to do the same thing again."I'm going to make a record that's truly artistic, which is the Reverend And The Makers album, that's artistically interesting, then I'm going to retire and become a pedal taxi driver."It (the music industry) makes me tired and it makes me feel ill and I don't want anything more to do with it."
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