Sleaford Mods

Luke Haines is an avant garde singer-songwriter.

Luke Haines is always having a laugh

luke haines is one of those rare and wonderful englishmen
luke haines is a fly in the ointment of mainstream music
luke haines is not quite the archetypal angry young man
luke haines is one of the best songwriters in the world today
luke haines is the leader of the autuers
luke haines is at the
luke haines is allegedly the grumpy
luke haines is
luke haines is a british genius
luke haines is fully aware of the fact that the seventies weren't all about bellbottoms
luke haines is back with absinthe
luke haines is an evil pop genius
luke haines is the most underrated talent in pop music today
luke haines is utter genius
luke haines is one of those shape
luke haines is the most underestimated songwriter of our time
luke haines is the auteur behind this particular group's brand of artrock
luke haines is a cynical bastard and one helluva songwriter
luke haines is a genius
luke haines is better known for his "other" band
luke haines is the main man in the splendidly creative auteurs
luke haines is camping in a different pasture altogether
luke haines is a very observant
luke haines is the loner kid in the big classroom of rock stars
luke haines is correct
luke haines is a fantastic example of what
luke haines is what can be seen as a typical british artist as i donґt think you will find music that is more british than his as there is the typical sarcasm
luke haines is strange and i know that martin rossiter hates him
luke haines is terug

lol

his twitter feed is pretty funny

he got really riled up when some journalist said he was cursing him with black magic

he went on for hours making fun of the guy for saying that

just downloaded Divide & Exit the new Sleaford Mods from amazon...this is pretty killer so far!

really loving this

OK you sold me

these dudes have won me over, sorry for questioning ur judgment upthread england

Would pay top dollar to have them yell at me in a small room. Top notch.

gnarly coke dead faces
death death death
nine to a cubicle

btw who is Norbert Colin?

protagonist of rarely-seen strip in 'Viz' comic

Norbert Colon

The meanest man ever to exist, he makes Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Steptoe, Rigby and Arkwright all look like reckless spendthrifts. Once sawed his own feet off in order to buy a pair of boots, and turned down a cheap holiday in the South Atlantic cutting kelp (2p and all the plankton you can eat!) because spending money wasn’t included.

NB I didn't quite understand the reference in the actual lyric

google reckons that an irl Norbert Colon lives in New Jersey

http://www.whitepages.com/name/Norbert-J-Colon/Parlin-NJ/4fhm7pf

Thanks to a chance shuffle on the car mp3 player, I have finally worked out where that drum beat on Urine Mate comes from - it's Careering by PiL.

The more I think about it, Wobble/Levene-era PiL seems like a better model than anything else for Fearney's backing tracks.

Yeah there is a bit of a PIL sound to them. Im loving the album.

'Fearny' is surely the best programmer out there? Reminds me of a some of 4 Hero's more complex grooves. With a huge dose of UK Subs thrown in the mix.

'Liveable Shit' is hilarious - nailing Shoreditch scenesters and GG fucking Allin name droppers within 10 seconds

"Liveable Shit" is where the record really kicks in, that and "Under The Plastic" are the immediate standouts for me. I love how there are no breaks at all between the songs.

I wish these guys had their lyrics up somewhere.

....

baah.

damn spelling corrector.

.....

naah!

(never mind)

crab eyes
and other lonely little DJs
with no fuckin life

sat around the blokes house
he liked me cos i made some informed comment about the early history of his fucking country
big mirror
lumps of drugs
his own private lift

The dinosaurs are stuck, no way to get down
The meteor sinks its teeth in the ground
I'm not bothered, I never was
Here's a crap caravan on Tiswas

"wanked in your toilet, you fucking tit rifle" pops in my head several times a day at this point

I don't speed date
I buy speed
From single mothers who smoke in front of their kids
And keep their biscuits in the fridge
And their gear under the biscuit tin lid

drove through sleaford the other day. i'd imagined it was a nottingham suburb but it's way out in the flat south lincolnshire corn fields next to thatcher's hometown grantham. weird bit of the country next to the wash & not a lot going on

like the bits of the album when it sounds like they're having fun w/ the listener a lot more than when it drifts into Right On social commentary

http://thequietus.com/articles/16048-sleaford-mods-interview

nice interview/film from The Quietus

i don't want white teeth and big tits
i want yellow fingers and missed mortgage payments
i'm in the zoo
hangover
and someone just thought i was liam gallagher
I'M NOT HAPPY

^the way he says i'm not happy always cracks me up, love it

Annnnd Mr. Williamson now has a column in Vice:

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/sleaford-mods-jason-williamson-column-dayjob-914

Work. Worse than Liam Gallagher's tweets.

<3

his writing-style, subject-matter, tone and life situation remind me very strongly of our dear own xelab, which is a compliment to both

saw them last night, fun as hell. was stood next to a guy I vaguely know who yelled along to every word from every song about the grey drudgery of gainful employment. his own job literally involves ruining/endangering the lives of asylum seekers by organising dawn raids on their houses and deporting them back to whichever regime they fled. makes u think

jeez... i guess whatever morally dubious line of work you pursue, you probably still go home thinking that yr boss is a cock

The system dehumanizes everyone, even the cops

whilst all of those points are reasonable, i still prefer to think of it as "some people might as well be informally executed because it's the only way they'll learn"

US release coming on Ipecac (i think) late Fall.

Uh. Weird label.

notwithstanding ppl's opinions on Mike Patton and/or his taste in music it seems like he just releases anything he enjoys so fair play imo

someone told me that Matador bailed on signing them and regretted it after the fact

Yeah I mean, anyone putting them out's fine. I hope they do an annotated booklet with detailed explanation of cultural references for us Americans, though.

'ey, ya bleedoh, you got a right cob on' = 'You're in a rather foul mood, you silly man', in East Midlands speak, iirc.

Was thinking more along the lines of "Cameron's hairdresser got an MBE," which I had to Google.

isn't that some kinda medal, like they gave to John Lennon?

glad I will be able to buy this on vinyl without paying $28 for the Harbinger Sound import

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ztxVh2gPQ&

ok when he takes a swig from the mug

SM tweeted it tbfttl

were i williamson i'd be fucken tickled to be parodied tbh

Sleaford Mods: 'Most days I'd only have enough money for a Mars bar and a can of Special Brew'
They may be the gobbiest band in the UK – just ask Miles Kane – but there's a political fury behind their angry missives

John Harris
John Harris
The Guardian, Thursday 17 July 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/17/raging-against-the-machine-rise-sleaford-mods/print

sleaford mods yall

That tells you all you need to know about the twat John Harris

If anyone wants to see them tonight (London, 100 club) I've got a spare ticket.

someone told me that Matador bailed on signing them and regretted it after the fact

Matador put out a 7" as part of their singles club, though

Looks like the domestic (USA) release has been removed from the schedule now.