Arctic Monkeys followers marking the nineteenth anniversary of the band’s debut album ‘No matter Folks Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, have been left baffled by what the duvet star is doing now.
Chris McClure, whose face was featured smoking on the long-lasting cowl of their 2006 debut album, was lately the topic of resurfaced footage of an Oasis cowl Reverend & The Makers carried out alongside Milburn and Arctic Monkeys in 2004.
As followers marked the band’s newest anniversary final week (January 23), eagle eyed followers found Chris, who can be the brother of Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure, was the person behind a spoof TikTok Sunday League soccer account.
The account sees McClure painting the comedy character Steve Bracknall, an exaggerated model of an novice soccer supervisor within the pretend Sunday League workforce, Royal Oak FC.
@stevebracknall It’s greater than soccer. It’s about belonging to one thing greater. Steven Bracknall #bracknall #stevebracknall #fyp #sundayleague #soccer
@stevebracknall Targets have been a difficulty. In the event you don’t shoot ya don’t rating. Steve #bracknall #stevebracknall #fyp #soccer
“Simply discovered this bloke is that Sunday league TikTok supervisor Steve Bracknall lol,” one fan wrote.
One other, who acquired his album covers combined up, added: “Everybody solely simply discovering out Steve Bracknall is the bloke on the AM album ought to be placed on fraud watch.”
A 3rd stated: “I really can’t imagine that it’s @SteveBracknall on the entrance of one of many best albums of all time.”
Simply discovered this bloke is that Sunday league TikTok supervisor Steve Bracknall lol https://t.co/rg6ukoO2Mt
— Sean (@SeanDOlfc) January 19, 2025
Everybody solely simply discovering out Steve Bracknall is the bloke on the AM album ought to be placed on fraud watch
— Cole ▯ (@swfccom) January 19, 2025
I really can’t imagine that it’s @SteveBracknall on the entrance of one of many best albums of all time #arcticmonkeys #stevebracknall pic.twitter.com/OrasMH46ih
— Midge (@djmidge1) January 20, 2025
McClure himself lately took to social media to verify the character is certainly him including: “2024 has been most intense 12 months of my life. Lack of my dad being essentially the most tough. Bringing a child up. Leaving my job. Having a enterprise that simply exploded throughout the nation. All of the whereas pretending to be the assistant supervisor of a Sunday league soccer membership.”
2024 has been most intense 12 months of my life
Lack of my dad being essentially the most tough
Bringing a child up
Leaving my job
Having a enterprise that simply exploded throughout the nationAll of the whereas pretending to be the assistant supervisor of a Sunday league soccer membership 😂
Love you dad
— Chris McClure (@chrismcclure86) December 31, 2024
To shoot the long-lasting album cowl, the band gave pal McClure £70 for an evening out in Liverpool, and took the shot within the early hours on the metropolis’s Korova bar.
“[It was] simply me sat on a stool. They gave me extra whisky and I threw up half approach via. Every little thing was blurry,” he beforehand recalled.
“I used to be happy however I don’t suppose I grasped how large it was going to be. It was solely on the day the album was launched, in January 2006, I believed, ‘Shit, what have I let myself in for?’”
On the fifteenth anniversary of the album in 2021, McClure mirrored on having his picture used because the art work and shared a color picture from the unique shoot.
He added: “What a document. Met some nice folks since… actually via having my picture taken. Pleasure to be related to it.”
Extra lately, Jon McClure opened as much as NME about his relationship with Alex Turner. McClure and Turner met again in 2001 whereas on a bus, the place McClure had requested Turner if he wished to affix his band. The 2 can be members of Judan Suki alongside Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders.
Their breakout hit ‘I Wager You Look Good On The Dancefloor‘ references their friendship, with the lyric “Dancing to electropop like a robotic from 1984” referring to McClure’s band 1984.