I can see why they'd appeal in northern Germany and the older industrialised parts, I mean they do sound like some ranty Dutch post-punk thing at times.
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Friday, 28 February 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
Saw them last year with no idea what to expect. Enjoyed it fine, bought the album expecting to play it only a couple of times and couldn't stop listening to it. Found the guy at the back (who touched the laptop a grand total of TWICE) to be the focus of attention as basically ge just nodded his head and swigged from his can, smiling sometimes when it got to a bit he remembered he liked.
Pitman and The Fall are I guess the touchstones, but I've been describing them to other people as if The Streets were a bitter middle aged bloke from the North who grew up with post punk.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, 28 February 2014 11:40 (ten years ago) link
I also love how inept that bit of drum programming is on Urine Mate.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, 28 February 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, they do credit early Streets as an influence - Wu-Tang too, and it was Jason who got me into Roc Marciano - but they claim not to have heard much Fall or John Cooper Clarke, despite the constant comparisons.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 February 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
i absolutely hear Streets in their, just more radge
― I never did nothing to no curry (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 February 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
'Double Diamond' is the major Skinner-y one iirc. don't specifically get that vibe from much else of theirs
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Friday, 28 February 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
his flow has rhythmic similarities to Skinner sometimes i think, but that and the use of everyday phrases/observations that rarely make it into pop music are the only notable connections
― I never did nothing to no curry (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 February 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah I can see the Streets thing
this was one of the first things I noticed and I love it as well
― sleeve, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Earl Brutus anyone?
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Friday, 28 February 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
No thanks, I've just eaten.
― Tim, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
Pitman and The Fall are I guess the touchstones, but I've been describing them to other people as if The Streets were a bitter middle aged bloke from the North who grew up with post punk.― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, February 28, 2014 6:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, February 28, 2014 6:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My first thought was Craig Finn.
― how's life, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I can see that actually.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S),
yup.
plus ... kid acne ..
― mark e, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
In the Grampsy household we have given them a Grampsy Award: British lyricists currently active.
― Grampsy, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
kinda like a tuff guy john cooper clark fronting mclusky
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
oops i'm like the 10th person to say JCC
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
i'm kinda into this
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 February 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Their most recent single is on Matador! (As part of their subscription singles club). It's great.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 2 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
Earl Brutus is absolutely spot the fuck on.A thought already shared in my humdrum world
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Sunday, 2 March 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah - the other (recent) thing it conjures is that Scroobious Pip tune that kind of crossed over a few years ago.
re: Craig Finn, he actually did a bunch of electronic tracks as "The Brokerdealer" after Lifter Puller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5KRlII5Io
― Walter Galt, Monday, 3 March 2014 10:57 (ten years ago) link
New video: Tied Up In Nottz, from the forthcoming album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=CFFWF1DnZKM
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 13:27 (ten years ago) link
big up nobby's nuts
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
In the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/06/eagulls-girl-band-evil-blizzard-sleaford-mods-bring-the-noise
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Evil Blizzard are great too.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
haha was just reading that article....Girl Band are quite good actually. their new single is terrific. and theyre from Dublin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxe3NZKYL0
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
before I read the actual article can I just say that I hate shit like
For years, British guitar bands have been styling themselves to be as smooth, bland and likable as possible. But finally a new wave of new rage is starting to shake things up
so fucking much. you could have written the exact same thing at any given time in the last ~15 years and it would be equally valid
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
"A lot of people thought I was on drugs," Mitchell sniffles.
lol it's funny because someone who takes drugs might sniffle as a result of their habit. the seed has been planted in my mind!
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
p impressive to name three S Mods titles one after the other and get them ALL wrong
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
calling yourself Girl Band is possibly the single fastest way to earn my hatred. nonetheless I'm gonna give this 1x listen
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
got a new dn from the comments so it's not all bad
― trying to emulate Kirk Cobain with a shrill, shouting voice (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
oh for fucking out loud this is just fucking absolute trash, hateful. michael b what the hell
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure this is a quote from the Johnny Kidd & the Pirates press release.
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
it's almost like Mclusky didn't do this 100x better ten years ago
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
anyway. sleaford mods are a bit different, thankfully
how is sleaford mods a "guitar band"?
― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
I mean it's all just window dressing really but idk would it be that bad or click-evaporating to say something to the effect of, 'here are some fairly new noisy non-mnstrm UK bands who have records out about now who we thought we'd share with you'? what is the actual purpose of this historically false oppositional thing
― trying to emulate Kirk Cobain with a shrill, shouting voice (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
good question! xp
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Tied Up In Nottz is great, in fact :)
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Homesick.
― emil.y, Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
ftr I think articles like this in papers like this are basically good, lame conceits notwithstanding, and accepts why these bands have to be Trojan horse'd in while the bulk of space is given over to music people actually want to read about
― trying to emulate Kirk Cobain with a shrill, shouting voice (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
what am I missing with Girl Band that is not completely loathsome btw
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Is 'guitar band' just in the standfirst? It looks like a lazy sub's work.
Anyway, thank you this thread, Sleaford Mods are my favourite new band, last two albums over and over, &
yes they push my E Mids buttons.
otoh I was being enthusiastic about them the other night but my fiancee on hearing them said 'They sound exactly like every other band you like. Are they the Fall?' maybe this marriage is a mistake.
― woof, Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
if you're just listening to the records bass guitar is a fairly prominent ingredient of like every SM song. granted it sort of makes a mockery of the idea of 'guitar band' but I can live with that tbh
― trying to emulate Kirk Cobain with a shrill, shouting voice (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Punk fucking rock from a pair of farmers who've gotta be in their 40s
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:08 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...
Nah it's about living in England - you probably wouldn't understand if you don'tA more clued up, yank friend of mine loved it , saying he hadn't heard something 'so UK' for a long while
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:21 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this seems exactly to appeal to foreigners who buy into the aggresively parochial / prole art threat wing of uk eighties nineties indie
would usually expect to hate anything described as 'punk fucking rock' but even so, this isn't good
there is an aesthetics of resistance here though exemplified by the person in the trackies with the can of spesh or supermarket vodka lingering in the background, the sort of performative grottiness and debased nihilism that limns its way through most of the other culture heroes namechecked itt, though not as tryhard-commonplace as this lot
shouty bloke reminds me a bit of mid 00s fall copyists prinzhorn dance school who i will sort of rep for
this seems to be getting warm notices due to the bleeding out of the whitebread male provincial fucked off sensibility in current uk pop
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
surprised at the hate, imago. there's something fall-esque about them that i thought you would approve of.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Nah, it's all far, far, far too tightly-controlled and formulaic - it's yer typical disco-indie with a slightly noisier hook. A sheep in wolf's clothing. Fall comparison faintly ridiculous (to these ears at any rate)
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
Girl Band is possibly the single fastest way to earn my hatred
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh for fucking out loud this is just fucking absolute trash, hateful.
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
the problem with 'fall-esque' is that if it isn't a shorthand for the early dragnet-hex clackety fall sound it's usually referring to the least interesting aspects of the fall, none of the copyists get or reinvisage the unhomely or obssesive qualities*, they merely facsimilie the threat but more in the to-women-and-children sense than the vindictive intelligence
thinking of uhm... k-punk's writing on MES here
― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah The Fall is all about shambling, liminal reception of horror - sheer horror, the horror of experience - MES in perpetual fear, yet somehow able to cackle about it, sublimate his fear into our fear through demonic, unsteady incantation - through a sort of displacement process that can only be obtained through fractures in art
there are no fractures in this music I hear
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
Sleaford Mods are not even remotely in the same ballpark as The Fall, as I say - they're like, if anything, a stripped-down, roided-up My Computer :D
― You cannot interrupt his tea stirring because it is his holy trick (imago), Thursday, 6 March 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
The "I'm thick" defense.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
I notice the first reply to the original tweet is Leeroy from the Prodigy saying, "Your not wrong". LOL.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2241539/sleaford-mods-end-show-early-after-palestinian-scarf-thrown-onstage-dont-be-asking-me-to-pick-sides/news/
“Don’t be asking me to pick sides for something I ain’t got any real idea about, at a gig,” they wrote. “I’m a singer. My job is music. The only real thing I know about War is that I’m sick and tired of premature death like we all are. Of the murder of anyone, under whatever fucking belief grid.”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:49 (five months ago) link
Sleaford Melts
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 November 2023 19:11 (five months ago) link
Local politics only! pic.twitter.com/xrAJELIOQg— General Erection (@ErectionGeneral) November 4, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 4 November 2023 20:00 (five months ago) link
Seeing them in Manchester tomorrow. On the plus side if they cut the show short I'll be able to catch the train home instead of uber.
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 12:08 (four months ago) link
Take along a Palestinian flag to make sure.
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 12:36 (four months ago) link
Bob Vylan has been calling out pseudo-left bands like Sleaford Mods and Idles on their current tour. I'd missed the previous revive so didn't know which bands they were talking about at the gig (they had called them both out by name at a previous gig, but the one I went to they said they didn't want it to become a this band vs that band beef so didn't name anyone specifically)
I miss that guy on Twitter who kept winding up Sleaford Mods by congratulating them for their MBE tbh
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 12:44 (four months ago) link
I wonder where Benefits land on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THuZ2tTn9yY-
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 12:50 (four months ago) link
Assumed the revive was for their Pet Shop Boys endorsed version of ‘West End Girls’. Not one of their finer moments.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 13:54 (four months ago) link
oh yeah, it's terrible
― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:06 (four months ago) link
I'm just going to write a Sleaford Mods song to demonstrate how easy it is to get an MBE these days
Income Support
Piss
Giro
Wanker
Bastard
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 14:16 (four months ago) link