Sleaford Mods

Seaford Mods

seems to be a local tribute act to everyone round our way now

ha! whoops.

loool

Woof and Jim, will mail when I get home in a couple of hours.

Nottingham's getting a lot of them at the moment: they supported The Pop Group earlier this week, and they're supporting The Specials very soon (the latter also nationally).

Aldo - got your email but you may need to send another with your email in - I think I can only reply to the ilx robot.

Going tonight to the 100 Club. So skint I dare not go for the supports for fear I'll spend money at the bar.

Resent!

^the Sleaford Mods manifesto

worry about not having enough money to get drunk at a show, 1) definitely been there and 2) also a very Sleaford Mods concern

bring a flask!

I would shank a kitten to see Sleaford Mods and the Pop Group

"i can't believe you had kids" is the greatest insult outside of a Half Man Half Biscuit record.

The other day, after a particularly shit day, I was on the bus home listening to the Tiswas EP. I tweeted that it was a very Sleaford Mods kind of journey home. They tweeted back. A minute after I got off the bus, I was hit by a car. Not hurt, but the only way it could have been more Sleaford Modsesque would have been if I'd spilt a can of beer when hit by the car.

Or if you'd been hit by a crap caravan.

Looking like a fun weekend down here in Bristol - Simple Things festival tomorrow with Mogwai / Harvey / Zomby / SOPHIE etc then I've just found out that Sleaford Mods are playing the Exchange on Sunday. Perfect way to spend a hungover Sunday eve tbh.

just a headsup, Bristol date is sold out I believe

The release is now back ON the schedule again for the USA.
Coming out 11/24 through Ipecac.

Ah bollocks you're right. Cheers for the heads up Mencap xp

nyc show 11/29 yall

no one? gonna be a good time man except for the $7 beers

they were fucking great in Utrecht last week. Maybe the highlight of the festival.

killed in BK - whole show is up in HD on Youtube. Williamson took a pint on the dome for no reason at all

does anyone know about this stuff on youtube that appears to be off something called The Originator? must be an early release, because they are using more samples that I'm sure weren't cleared, like Creedence here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_U3iz6yxU

The Originator is the third album and maybe the first one that shows what we think of as 'current' SM all the way through, although still two albums before Fearney turns up.

That track is on Re-Tweeted, which is basically the highlights of the first four albums plus a track from Wank that didn't make it onto Austerity Dogs.

track 4 on the new album by The Prodigy
'Ibiza' feat. Sleaford Mods

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hahahahaha that's so perfect

ooh, a fucking pharoah in a fucking pyramid album

Recorded a track ("Ibiza") with the Prodigy

― willem, donderdag 23 oktober 2014 16:57 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooh

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/06/sleaford-mods-jason-williamson-rails-against-the-music-industry

i think these guys are gonna blow the fuck up in 1977

https://twitter.com/sleafordmods/status/572922870952812544

i gather from this thread these guys have been around a while but the two or three songs i've heard basically sound like mclusky who weren't exactly without obvious precedent themselves so these guys writing to the guardian to say it's all just shitty rehashes of quality from yesteryear sure takes BALLS imo

Prefer these to the godawful Mclusky to be honest. Can do without the extra-musical gobshite espousings of either.

first paragraph

Rock star posing does my head in. Mate, you are not sexy, you are not Brad Pitt, stop it. Comical rock stardom, classroom posing, is a redundant gimmick, a yesteryear stage prop.

last paragraph

It’s got to be raw. No excuses. Not now.

do love that the first bit of "related content" at the bottom of the page is about noel gallagher

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, February 28, 2014

I hear early Streets plus Fall & John Cooper Clarke

total rock critic rock. rock crits love them wordy bastards. people don't get excited by that hold steady guy anymore. need something new.

Sleaford Mods are an English minimalist electronic post-punk/hip hop duo

If rock critics like wordy bastards how come the Kate Tempest album got completely ignored?

can anyone link to some "hip-hop" from these guys? unless "vocals reminiscent of The Streets" equals hip-hop now? And is there anything "electronic" about them other than the fact that the post-punk rhythm section stuff comes out of a laptop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7KPN2onL30

cuz like, in practice, this just feels like McLusky minus guitar to me. Which in and of itself isn't awful, but does make the author's POP MUSIC HAS ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE article a bit ironic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehcDX3XqDs

ok this is a little more "hip-hop"

don't get me wrong, i love wordy british bastards too. these guys are fun. they feel of the moment. fad-like? do people still listen to old Streets albums? or even their old Lifter Puller records? i still listen to my half man half biscuit records.

admittedly that article might have been the worst possible way to be introduced to a musical act - the music itself is inoffensive so i'm sorry if i'm bumming out people who were just digging a post-mclusky pet shop boys irrespective of his LET'S GET RAW blather

it's tradition. for british musicians to slag off the fake rubbish. it's their job.

He's specifically aiming at career NME bands isn't he? His 'raw' demand is because there's so much polished middle class non-DIY male posturing sheng dominating their covers and advertising.

did you read the whole piece?

Samey Winehouses singing forgettable songs in videos shot in poor areas. The willing and eager, the would-be stars, have no interest in their own experiences, of anything, so they go for the loot and the useless awards and hide behind shiny plastic walls made by fashion houses. DJs are so safe they ought to be holding seminars on fucking traffic awareness when crossing the road.

Dollar sound like Led Zeppelin when placed alongside Scouting For Girls or Echosmith, the Dixie Chicken outlets of New Pop, the Dyson, that colourful aerodynamic piece of shit, the attainable domestic gimmick.

Ah fair enough. He's saying what'll get them press exposure isn't he? Get the Gallagher fans into them. Which seeing as their initial fanbase/label support was way more leftfield was probably a wise move.