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By Paul Glynn
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image captionJon McClure s band Reverend and the Makers have had six UK top 20 albums
Reverend and the Makers Jon McClure has offered to play private online gigs for fans who are genuinely on their own on Christmas Day.
The Sheffield singer s Twitter gesture followed Saturday s news that tighter coronavirus restrictions were to come into force over the festive period.
McClure has been contacting fans directly throughout this year already.
He told the BBC he wants to do his bit to keep spirits up during the pandemic-reduced festivities. When I ve seen people are struggling on social media or whatever, I ll just message them and say, ere are, get your mates on this Zoom or Facetime call and I ll just play them a couple of songs, explained McClure.