The Maccabees were joined by Jamie T during their All Points East headline show. Check out the footage below.
The indie band topped the bill at Victoria Park last night (August 24), after first announcing the gig in October 2024 and ending their eight-year hiatus. The huge gig also coincided with the 10th anniversary of their fourth and final album, ‘Marks To Prove It’, which was released back in 2015.
To celebrate, they brought out Jamie T for a surprise performance of the LP’s title track – marking the first time they’ve played it with him since their 2017 “final” gig at Alexandra Palace.
Two years prior to that, Jamie T also joined them during their Glastonbury 2015 set to perform the track.
He also stuck around to play his 2009 hit ‘Sticks ‘N’ Stones’ with the newly reformed band. Ahead of this gig, he brought out The Maccabees‘ guitarist Hugo White to perform the song during his huge 2023 Finsbury Park show, and before that, at Glastonbury 2022. White also produced Jamie’s T 2022 album ‘The Theory of Whatever’.
Check out the moment below.
So so good to have The Maccabees back what a band! What a surprise to have Jamie T and stick “n” stones! What a moment! pic.twitter.com/NvF73lfi7o
— Steven George (@steven_george) August 24, 2025
In the run-up to their All Points East gig, Felix White and co. also reunited for a huge show at this year’s edition of Glastonbury and, before that, played their first gig back on June 20 at London’s The Dome for a charity gig in aid of MS Society.
While at their South London practice space, the band told NME that it felt like “no time has passed” in their eight-year hiatus. “It’s so strange,” Felix told us in January. “In the chunk [of time] from the last show, you could conceive of The Maccabees as a different existence, but as soon as we started playing, it was as if we hadn’t stopped.”
When asked about the possibility of new music then, he added: “The plan is to do [All Points East] and see how much we love it.” Sam Doyle then chimed in, jokingly saying that they were reluctant to look too far ahead as they “might hate each other by August.”
More recently, Felix said that announcing the band’s return “almost felt embarrassing” after their “definitive” break-up, and confirmed that they are “not writing anything at the moment”.
While at Glastonbury, the band spoke to NME again about playing their first show back together earlier this year. “There was a lot of feeling in that room. It surprised me, actually, because I was finding that on stage, in a split second, I was euphoric and then I was actually crying at Tufnell Park Dome and then feeling other things,” Felix said.
“You felt all this feeling inside your body that the action of playing the music brings out in us, and it was all happening in there and just felt amazing.
At their Glasto set, The Maccabees were joined by Florence Welch, who provided guest vocals on ‘Love You Better’ before performing Florence + The Machine‘s ‘Dog Days Are Over’. NME gave the performance a full five stars and praised the slot as “their most euphoric show to date”.
The band currently have no future performances lined up, but did recently say that they are “tempted” by the idea of recording new music together.
