Chris Macclure: Last News

Arctic Monkeys fans are only just realising who the man on the front cover of their iconic first album is.

Arctic Monkeys fans marking the 19th anniversary of the band’s debut album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, have been left baffled by what the cover star is doing now.Chris McClure, whose face was featured smoking on the iconic cover of their 2006 debut album, was recently the subject of resurfaced footage of an Oasis cover Reverend & The Makers performed alongside Milburn and Arctic Monkeys in 2004.As fans marked the band’s latest anniversary last week (January 23), eagle eyed fans discovered Chris, who is also the brother of Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure, was the man behind a spoof TikTok Sunday League football account.The account sees McClure portray the comedy character Steve Bracknall, an exaggerated version of an amateur football manager in the fake Sunday League team, Royal Oak FC.It’s more than football. It’s about belonging to something bigger.

Reverend & The Makers have shared footage of an Oasis cover they performed alongside Milburn and Arctic Monkeys in 2004.“From the vaults,” they wrote on X/Twitter today (January 5) alongside the grainy clip that sees the Sheffield artists take on the Gallagher brothers’ ‘D’ You Know What I Mean?’ for Chris McClure’s “18th birthday in the local boozer”.Chris, the brother of Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure, was featured smoking on the iconic cover of the Artic Monkey’s debut, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’. Back in 2021, following the album’s 15th anniversary, he shared: “What a record.

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The Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas has admitted in a new social media post that he “always wanted to be in the Arctic Monkeys”.The frontman took to Instagram this morning (October 10) to share a photo of himself recreating the cover art of the Sheffield band’s debut album, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’.Released in 2006, the album’s iconic cover image features a black and white photo of Chris McClure – brother of Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure – smoking a cigarette.Casablancas’ recreation of the famous artwork sees a similar close-up shot of him smoking, while the title tag in the left corner has been replaced with The Strokes’ logo.“lolll – i always wanted to be in the Arctic Monkeys,” the singer captioned his post.