How Adele became The Maccabees' wedding singer...
30 October 2024, 12:14 | Updated: 2 May 2025, 19:08
The Maccabees' Hugo White recalled how the band enlisted mates Adele, Jamie T, Florence Welch and more to perform at his lockdown wedding.
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Last year saw The Maccabees announced their plans to reunite for a headline show at All Points East 2025 - and it emerged that guitarist Hugo White's wedding was a catalyst for the band reconnecting.
But did you know that the event also saw singer-songwriter and overall global phenomenon Adele act as their support?
The Marks To Prove it rocker's wedding took place at a Battersea pub in 2020, where he enlisted some friends and fellow musicians to perform special sets, ending the line-up with a performance from The Maccabees themselves.
One such friend was Adele, who they revealed not only acted as a wedding singer by performing her Rolling In The Deep hit with them, but also acted as a warm-up for the band before they took to the stage themselves!
"My wedding, we had a line-up of people that were gonna play and we hired out a pub and had the stage set up and stuff," he told Radio X's Toby Tarrant as he covered The Chris Moyles Show.
His brother and fellow Maccabees guitarist Felix explained: "It started with The Beatles [covers band], then it was Jack Peñate, then us and Jamie T, then us and Florence Welch... and then us and Adele."
He went on: "And because it was Hugo doing the billing... Supporting The Maccabees was Adele, So we went on after Adele. Have that!"
Frontman Orlando Weeks said of the incredible event in a press release: “I didn’t go because it was The Maccabees playing together again, but because it was a beautiful gesture to be invited and to contribute to the spirit of the day. What I wanted, band aside, was to find a way to be in each other’s lives in some way."
Watch our full chat with Hugo and Felix White here:
The Maccabees are headlining All Points East 2025!
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The Maccabees - who will play All Points East on 24th August with the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Dry Cleaning and The Cribs on the bill - have described the event as "too magical to pass up".
"In a way, All Points East has sort of become that for the indie generation, because Reading and Leeds has changed a little bit, so you always look at the line-up," said Felix.
"So, that was the one that, like, when it got offered to us, it was like, ‘Argh! We can’t not do that!’ It just feels too great, too magical. So that’s where we are.”
The band have since announced the details of a 2025 UK an Ireland tour, which will see them play two nights at Dublin Academy, make a stop at Glasgow Barrowlands and play two consecutive gigs at Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse.
Speaking of the dates Felix said: “We can’t wait to be The Maccabees again! These shows will be really magical, playing the songs that form such a part of our collective lives, in the UK & Ireland in the lead up to All Points East Festival. It’s something we genuinely didn’t think would happen again and are really determined to make special now that it is. We’ll see you there.”
Visit themaccabees.co.uk for their full live dates and to buy remaining tickets.
The Maccabees' 2025 UK & Ireland dates:
- 17th August: Dublin Academy
- 18th August: Dublin Academy - NEW DATE ADDED
- 20th August: Glasgow Barrowlands
- 21st August: Manchester O2 Vic Warehouse
- 22nd August: Manchester O2 Vic Warehouse - NEW DATE ADDED
- 24th August: All Points East, London
