Sleaford Mods

Also, do be a twat!

Their songs would make a pretty good late night sketch show, lots of good visual character stuff with the deadpan humour

They recently released four 7" singles on four different labels, more or less simultaneously - newly collected together here: http://sleafordmods.bandcamp.com/album/singles-collection

Curiously, they play a lot of gigs in continental Europe - there's even a 12-date tour of Germany/Switzerland in May - so something about their regionalism must translate.

― mike t-diva, Friday, February 28, 2014 10:41 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it's curious isn't it. maybe a kind of bitter thirtysomething crypto-noisedude version of French teenagers who worship The Libertines idk

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.

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.

I also love how inept that bit of drum programming is on Urine Mate.

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.

i absolutely hear Streets in their, just more radge

'Double Diamond' is the major Skinner-y one iirc. don't specifically get that vibe from much else of theirs

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

yeah I can see the Streets thing

I also love how inept that bit of drum programming is on Urine Mate.

this was one of the first things I noticed and I love it as well

Earl Brutus anyone?

No thanks, I've just eaten.

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

My first thought was Craig Finn.

I can see that actually.

Earl Brutus anyone?

― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S),

yup.

plus ... kid acne ..

In the Grampsy household we have given them a Grampsy Award: British lyricists currently active.

kinda like a tuff guy john cooper clark fronting mclusky

oops i'm like the 10th person to say JCC

i'm kinda into this

Their most recent single is on Matador! (As part of their subscription singles club). It's great.

Earl Brutus is absolutely spot the fuck on.
A thought already shared in my humdrum world

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

New video: Tied Up In Nottz, from the forthcoming album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=CFFWF1DnZKM

big up nobby's nuts

In the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/06/eagulls-girl-band-evil-blizzard-sleaford-mods-bring-the-noise

Evil Blizzard are great too.

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

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

"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!

p impressive to name three S Mods titles one after the other and get them ALL wrong

calling yourself Girl Band is possibly the single fastest way to earn my hatred. nonetheless I'm gonna give this 1x listen

got a new dn from the comments so it's not all bad

oh for fucking out loud this is just fucking absolute trash, hateful. michael b what the hell

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

Pretty sure this is a quote from the Johnny Kidd & the Pirates press release.

it's almost like Mclusky didn't do this 100x better ten years ago

anyway. sleaford mods are a bit different, thankfully

how is sleaford mods a "guitar band"?

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

good question! xp

Tied Up In Nottz is great, in fact :)

Homesick.

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

what am I missing with Girl Band that is not completely loathsome btw

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, &

Homesick.

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.

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

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't
A 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

surprised at the hate, imago. there's something fall-esque about them that i thought you would approve of.

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)

that is some Gregg Turkington in movie buff mode shit right there

i have no idea who matt forde is but that list is incredible

the ghostbuster inclusion and then selecting a truck stop johnny cash comp called "itchy feet" killed me

he's an exemplar of everything is wretched about UK comedy and politics, fucking hideous guy

Ok, guess we're all done with these twats now

How to destroy any notion of being some brave political band speaking truth to power in 10 seconds. https://t.co/yZ1RwTFeMk pic.twitter.com/Y3ulM4ZfKG

— C (@Obsayxx) November 4, 2023

The "I'm thick" defense.

I notice the first reply to the original tweet is Leeroy from the Prodigy saying, "Your not wrong". LOL.

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.”

Sleaford Melts

Local politics only! pic.twitter.com/xrAJELIOQg

— General Erection (@ErectionGeneral) November 4, 2023

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.

Take along a Palestinian flag to make sure.

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

I wonder where Benefits land on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THuZ2tTn9yY-

Assumed the revive was for their Pet Shop Boys endorsed version of ‘West End Girls’. Not one of their finer moments.

oh yeah, it's terrible

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