The Maccabees have recalled the time when Adele supported them at a pre-COVID show in London.It was members Hugo and Felix White who remembered the moment during a new interview on Radio X.
The conversation took place as the band confirmed the news of their comeback this week, and announced that they’d be taking to the stage in the capital’s Victoria Park on August 24 for their first gig together in eight years.The performance will coincide with the 10th anniversary of their fourth and final album, ‘Marks To Prove It’.Now, in the new interview, the two members have recalled how the idea to reform arose, as well as details of a secret show they played together just before the COVID pandemic.Talking on the radio show, they explained that the one-off gig was performed for close friends and family while at Hugo White’s wedding. “It was probably four years after we split up.
It was definitely [at the point where we thought] we weren’t going to do anything ever again,” Hugo said.“We felt we had to do that in order to move on.
At my wedding, we had a line-up of people that were going to play. We had hired out a pub and had the stage set up, and it was one of those things where I thought we should end the night with The Maccabees.”He added: “Asking Orlando [Weeks] was the big one and I was like ‘I don’t think he’s going to do that, even for my wedding’.
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