Sleaford Mods

"So, Mr. Williamson, what have you done in order to find gainful employment since your last signing-on date?"

"FUCK ALL. I sat around the house wanking."

Love these guys.

yeah theyre amazing

right down the righteous gonzo line between prophets and nobheads imo but until we fall out i am loving this

"if you like feedback go and work for the council"

I know it's maybe pointless but can somebody highlight what they find good about this?

They've been all over my FB feed for months but when I dip into it and I hear some horrible guy mithering about hard guys on his estate or similar.

Actually, never mind, I'm listening again and it's obviously not for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-JClH7DZ0

^ i love this one

I listened to these cunts for three weeks straight.
Travelled to see them in Nottingham recently . It was a sell out.
Capacity 80.
Love the way the musician just stands there with a shit eating grin , waving his e - cig, whilst Williamson spits out the rage

Job seeker, can of strongbow
im a mess
Desperately clutching onto a leaflet on depression
given to me by the NHS

and some of it's hilarious.

Punk fucking rock from a pair of farmers who've gotta be in their 40s

wait so is this a middle aged art thing or not? i dont understand the english

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

so like the streets, or all the urchins singing in oliver?

my wife doesn't understand the dialogue in withnail & i, is that a similar thing

stop being a twat

I get prime-period Fall vibes off of this? very intrigued but it is largely incomprehensible, not that that's an issue for me

the guy really knows how to swear, I respect that, and I also love the silent bob type drinking beside him who I assume presses the buttons

yeah it is very Fall-esque - the ranting, the lurching basslines....

A cockney John Cooper Clarke backed by Steve Hanley? It's great

I have described these guys as a cross between John Cooper Clarke and MC Pitman, hahaha. Doesn't really capture what's good about them, though.

Love the way the musician just stands there with a shit eating grin

assuming the gig I saw the other day was representative, all dude does onstage is press play on the backing tracks. this made me like it all the more

^^^^

wow these guys have six albums!

john cooper clarke maybe, cockney definitely not! xps to dr x

Doing 30 in a 40
Playing solo Johnny Marr
Who gives a fuck about yesterdays heroes
Who seem to think that they are still today's heroes
Its not a pyramid
You're not a fucking Pharaoh

i was gonna do a "he's no MC Pitman" quibble earlier lol

The three tracks I've heard off the next album have no swearing. Fucking sell outs!

(I adore them. Especially live - seen them many times.)

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 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's between this and Kunt & The Gang tbh

Just felt like this thread needed some DJ Smile to show what a thin margin it is between prophet/nobhead. Not dissing S'ford Mods like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7WdvzITaLk

had forgotten about "kick the little face/in the place", rhyming is a harsh master

what is a "jampandy"?

I am too frightened to click the link. Is this some Hedluv + Passman type shenanigans?

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.

I listened to these guys last year when they were reviewed in the wire, then forgot about them. Enjoyable enough. Lol they would have 6 albums wouldn't they

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)

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

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

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

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

xpost to nakh - yeah, that's part of it, but put in a way i'm gnawing slightly awkwardly at. (tho 'least interesting aspects of The Fall' is a curiously interesting set).

really like sleaford mods - p much since i heard them cos of the EOY list have just have ''old on 'old on' in my head since christmas. nv otm right down the righteous gonzo line between prophets and nobheads imo but until we fall out i am loving this

thank you thread people.

i have kept forgetting.

but cos of this thread reminder, i have now dug out my earl brutus singles and albums collection.

happy daze.

tried a few more sleaford tracks in downgraded 240p youtube trebly laptop speaker glory and i would probably have rated some of this when i was younger

Earl Brutus the pomo deconstructed Europeanised somewhat perversely grandiose counterpart to this sort of social comms rock yeah mebbe

I think "vindictive intelligence" is a very astute description of the The Fall. For as much as some people "tell it like it is" they are still no better than Terry & The Idiots.

I like these guys. I don't think they sound much like anyone and the lyrics are cracking.

"I hate northern soul/it's just like motown but on the dole"

see i would have liked that more before something like a....suspension of disbelief broke, same as i don't quite love afrikan boy's exquisite 'when i went to lidl' as much i used to, not claiming that i am any wiser a decade later or that it is any worse but politically the identification seems more fictive and untenable, my idiot bourgie teenage friends aren't going to shoplift in lidl any more, i'm not really any closer in spirit to norths lincs than sevastopol and the militantly reductive inverse-twee arte povera production and appellation sleaford protégée namechecks sort of surrender claims to sublimity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kBcm-ls8Y

south lincs...

clean bandit for ponces

isurrender claims to sublimity

the surrender of the claims to sublimity is part of the point/appeal tho, no? it's the 'prophetic' part of NV's earlier formula - the surly peasant, automatically suspicious of money, authority and those who like to be sold things, unseduceable must exclude art and the sublime as part of that suspicion, they do not view the pastoral, they are *in* it. that is also the problem, as you say: as a vision it becomes tiring long-term, reductive and exclusive of change - the no nonsense insolence becomes authoritarian conservatism as it gets old.

MES as a person can exemplify this, and i find the latter-day cultism surrounding him a bit nauseating. he's saved personally by his absolute devotion to art, and in The Fall the essential counterbalance to the surly indifference to pleasure ('to please is the curse, and worse') is Art, Mysticism and the sublime, to which they are open. In this respect they represent a form of satire - gnostically excoriating and revelling in the material world to reveal the spiritual sublime. (The spiritual counterweight to the surly peasant's suspicion is a credulity towards heretical gnosticism and non-conformism). Half Man Half Biscuit manage it with genuine pastoral longing and a genius for the cultural impedimenta beyond and below outside irritation at the supermarket.

But basically I'm a sucker for English nobheadism and enjoy it more or less automatically (crap dance is a golden place for this) - the addition of dirty bass and drums, and mocking guitar, just helps.

^^ there's a point, at the height/depth of the Anabaptist's delirious approach to the deity, that the thought kicks in that the whole religious edifice is just an excuse to escape work and drink for oblivion and rut like a beast

http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n601/gamalielratsey/2014-03-07074141_zpsf8942e08.jpg

and of courfe the reverfe holdf true

yep, the oppofite applief - the morning light.

more Sleaford Modland

http://www.ranterulze.net/images/drunkards.png

SM do feel a bit antiquated tho - not that I mind particularly. the JCCisms, the grubby post punk musical lumbering belie the 'mod'. after reading that excellent Ian Penman LRB article on mod, was wondering what foreign elements wd constitute contemporary mod - what would be the foreign element, fashion lodestones, the cultural frontiers. ended making up something out of a ragbag of african dance like the Lapaz Toyota video, soviet satellite states (your sevastopol comment, nakh), the angular faces and baroque lines of a wyndham lewis portrait. it wouldn't look much like Sleaford Mods other than its oppositional razor to the throat of hipster fogeyism and the frigid abnegation of scandi-porn.

nakh's point about suspension of disbelief is v. on point tho - to contemplate the authenticity of the presentation is to pop the bubble immediately - hence my original caveat about "until we fall out" - but charlatanism is an acceptable angle of the English scene too as long as you keep your art project roots hid - incidentally, Earl Brutus seem to never manage this to me, they are a much archer proposition than Sleaford

even Chris Donald nods

yeah i think if you showed me the entire musical history – all failed bands etc – of these 2, or re-presented it as a spoken word project of sorts then I would be way more iffy, but for now i'm pretty infatuated.

would like to read a long history of the English 'No. Fuck off' tradition.

Andrew Fearn (the button-pusher/head-nodder/beer-chugger/e-cig-vaper) also puts out solo stuff as extnddntwrk - this is his most recent release - http://extnddntwrk.bandcamp.com/album/hybrids

Fearny is a good bloke, was (is?) a friend of my brother. I'm not sure what sort of 'pretence' you guys think he's up to, but... I guess you want to see them as archetypes not humans? But then surely the project is to force their humanity into yr face? We are all humans, fucked up and crawling and puking, and implicated in the shit to a vast extent.

I think it's one of the things I like about them - they are my people, but they're not. This is my town, but it's not. The people they point the finger at, often, are people like me, but it's a mutual implication, simultaneously drawn and repelled by to for the whole thing, the fucking Goose on the Square, Yates' Wine Lodge, Old Meadows, New Meadows, The Lamp, Peggers is closing down, it's always been closing down, Selectadisc is long gone (what the fuck is Selectadisc?), Sneinton, Lenton, Spice Spice Arena, the fucking repulsive 'Arts Quarter' concept, St. Ann's, the xylophone man (it was a metallophone actually), the spot by my friends' house where that boy was shot...

Sorry, where was I?

these guys are pretty fun!
i like english ppl shouting at me, always have

haha UMS otm

i like emily's post. art project or not, they kind of reframe northern working class rock in a way they makes the likes of oasis look the height of pretension, and not by dumbing down either, but the sense they give you of being knee-deep in all the shit of their native culture, suckered onto the local substrate like limpets stuck to the bottom of a dirty pub ashtray. they have this great tension too between being fucked-up yet still vital, deeply bored but still awake and alert. not that any of this is exclusive to them mind you.

feel like the ilx response to them is prob complicated because they answer a bit too perfectly to the Real England thing (which thread is always itself a bit complicated)

was thinking of posting them to that thread for the longest time but bottled it

xpost I commissioned the Guardian article. And, yes, it was a way to shoehorn a load of bands I was interested in into one piece that would get way more play and attention than single pieces about any of them would. In fact, not sure I could have got single pieces about any of them into the paper.

But it was a direct reaction to the fact that for two or three years I'd barely heard a new "rock" band who didn't sound like gimley eyed careerists, and suddenly there seemed to be a rush of new bands who didn't sound like 6 Music airplay was the key thing on their mind. I know such bands have always been around, but for the first time in ages people outside the underground seem to be talking about them …

who are these overground tastemakers yr using as a hype barometer?

this thread is great, particularly good to be reacquainted with one day i went to lidl, also agree entirely w/ this bit of fizzles' -

the surrender of the claims to sublimity is part of the point/appeal tho, no? it's the 'prophetic' part of NV's earlier formula - the surly peasant, automatically suspicious of money, authority and those who like to be sold things, unseduceable must exclude art and the sublime as part of that suspicion, they do not view the pastoral, they are *in* it. that is also the problem, as you say: as a vision it becomes tiring long-term, reductive and exclusive of change - the no nonsense insolence becomes authoritarian conservatism as it gets old.

It seems like SM's are pretty Deep Nottingham as emil.y's post attests, but on that archetypal level they feel v familiar. mb I wish they felt less familiar. "suspension of disbelief" is kind of curious in this context (identification). the problem isn't that the common ground invoked is imaginary, it's Real, observational, and necessarily specific. it's just that the Realness of the surly-peasant-totems - JSA, the A15, shoplifting in lidl, whatever - feels like a kind of empty materialism. it's not reflexive. it's a collection of v recognisable quotidian pains and symbols the same as a michael mcintyre routine. mb not fair to include the afrikan boy track, that's a one off. not familiar enough w/ the fall to confidently agree w/ fizzles that they bring a spiritual/sublime counterbalance to this but it sounds plausible.

the surrender of the claims to sublimity is part of the point/appeal tho, no?....

But basically I'm a sucker for English nobheadism and enjoy it more or less automatically (crap dance is a golden place for this) - the addition of dirty bass and drums, and mocking guitar, just helps.

― Fizzles, Friday, 7 March 2014 07:23 (Yesterday)

that was saying that in lieu of any identification with them then it doesn't work on any sort of transfigured way, like the squalour early suicide does

disbelief doesn't suggest they are falsifying their world but that identifying with it rests on investing in some of the same claims to what you call 'surly peasant' wisdom if that acerbic wisdom mostly seems trite, self-defeating lumpen rage without any sort of assimiliative or political intelligence beyond enumerating the indignities of their cell around them

their posture in the live videos has a sort of territorial, leering, malevolent quality that seems simulated and feeble, like many english pretenders they lack confidence, they don't realize that the people who created the world around them are cruder and more caustic than themselves

selfish cunt >>>>>>> sleaford mods

have p much no idea what he's on about but I am enjoying this music a lot

little known fact that these guys were part of the Kersal Massive back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uja3W-ibifc

Lol k punk writes about these in the latest wire

Haha .. The Kersal Massive was the first thing I thought about when I saw that new Sleaford Mods video

The final rant about Levenshulme and then the closing 'Peace!' kills me every time ...

Kersal isn't even near Levenshulme ffs. Wind yer necks in, lads.

levenshulme's rep transcends its borough

and it's not that far in an 05 V6 Cleo Twin Turbo

Unfortunately the Levenshulme battle rap scene has been replaced by an M19 ukulele group.

I could not make out whether he was from Salford or Manchester <-- can't remember what Fall song that is but it ties this together nicely.

93 & 192, makes sense to get a daysaver

found myself asking for a daysaver the other day & was much derided by my gf

cheetham hill, oppet.

investing in some of the same claims to what you call 'surly peasant' wisdom if that acerbic wisdom mostly seems trite, self-defeating lumpen rage without any sort of assimiliative or political intelligence beyond enumerating the indignities of their cell around them

don't want to belabour this, but i don't think 'surly peasant wisdom' is a thing at all (certainly not something to be praised. It has no wisdom in it, it is just impervious and naturally antagonistic to certain types of folly (or mystically believed to be) - the empty grotesque (rabelais's parable of jest-gnostic insolubilia at the beginning of the first book of G&P always feels like it's about this. Fuck, I don't care if it's the SM thread, it's Saturday morning, no one's around - quoting Urquhart's translation (JCC of its day chiz chiz):

Most noble and illustrious drinkers, and you thrice precious pockified blades (for to you, and none else, do I dedicate my writings), Alcibiades, in that dialogue of Plato's, which is entitled The Banquet, whilst he was setting forth the praises of his schoolmaster Socrates (without all question the prince of philosophers), amongst other discourses to that purpose, said that he resembled the Silenes. Silenes of old were little boxes, like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries, painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good Bacchus, was wont to do; but within those capricious caskets were carefully preserved and kept many rich jewels and fine drugs, such as balm, ambergris, amomon, musk, civet, with several kinds of precious stones, and other things of great price. Just such another thing was Socrates. For to have eyed his outside, and esteemed of him by his exterior appearance, you would not have given the peel of an onion for him, so deformed he was in body, and ridiculous in his gesture. He had a sharp pointed nose, with the look of a bull, and countenance of a fool: he was in his carriage simple, boorish in his apparel, in fortune poor, unhappy in his wives, unfit for all offices in the commonwealth, always laughing, tippling, and merrily carousing to everyone, with continual gibes and jeers, the better by those means to conceal his divine knowledge. Now, opening this box you would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more than human understanding, an admirable virtue, matchless learning, invincible courage, unimitable sobriety, certain contentment of mind, perfect assurance, and an incredible misregard of all that for which men commonly do so much watch, run, sail, fight, travel, toil and turmoil themselves.

Whereunto (in your opinion) doth this little flourish of a preamble tend? For so much as you, my good disciples, and some other jolly fools of ease and leisure, reading the pleasant titles of some books of our invention, as Gargantua, Pantagruel, Whippot (Fessepinte.), the Dignity of Codpieces, of Pease and Bacon with a Commentary, &c., are too ready to judge that there is nothing in them but jests, mockeries, lascivious discourse, and recreative lies; because the outside (which is the title) is usually, without any farther inquiry, entertained with scoffing and derision. But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Therefore is it, that you must open the book, and seriously consider of the matter treated in it. Then shall you find that it containeth things of far higher value than the box did promise; that is to say, that the subject thereof is not so foolish as by the title at the first sight it would appear to be.

And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart. Did you ever pick the lock of a cupboard to steal a bottle of wine out of it? Tell me truly, and, if you did, call to mind the countenance which then you had. Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it. To what end all this? What moveth him to take all these pains? What are the hopes of his labour? What doth he expect to reap thereby? Nothing but a little marrow. True it is, that this little is more savoury and delicious than the great quantities of other sorts of meat, because the marrow (as Galen testifieth, 5. facult. nat. & 11. de usu partium) is a nourishment most perfectly elaboured by nature.

In imitation of this dog, it becomes you to be wise, to smell, feel and have in estimation these fair goodly books, stuffed with high conceptions, which, though seemingly easy in the pursuit, are in the cope and encounter somewhat difficult. And then, like him, you must, by a sedulous lecture, and frequent meditation, break the bone, and suck out the marrow,—that is, my allegorical sense, or the things I to myself propose to be signified by these Pythagorical symbols, with assured hope, that in so doing you will at last attain to be both well-advised and valiant by the reading of them: for in the perusal of this treatise you shall find another kind of taste, and a doctrine of a more profound and abstruse consideration, which will disclose unto you the most glorious sacraments and dreadful mysteries, as well in what concerneth your religion, as matters of the public state, and life economical.

Do you believe, upon your conscience, that Homer, whilst he was a-couching his Iliads and Odysses, had any thought upon those allegories, which Plutarch, Heraclides Ponticus, Eustathius, Cornutus squeezed out of him, and which Politian filched again from them? If you trust it, with neither hand nor foot do you come near to my opinion, which judgeth them to have been as little dreamed of by Homer, as the Gospel sacraments were by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, though a certain gulligut friar (Frere Lubin croquelardon.) and true bacon-picker would have undertaken to prove it, if perhaps he had met with as very fools as himself, (and as the proverb says) a lid worthy of such a kettle.

If you give no credit thereto, why do not you the same in these jovial new chronicles of mine? Albeit when I did dictate them, I thought upon no more than you, who possibly were drinking the whilst as I was. For in the composing of this lordly book, I never lost nor bestowed any more, nor any other time than what was appointed to serve me for taking of my bodily refection, that is, whilst I was eating and drinking. And indeed that is the fittest and most proper hour wherein to write these high matters and deep sciences: as Homer knew very well, the paragon of all philologues, and Ennius, the father of the Latin poets, as Horace calls him, although a certain sneaking jobernol alleged that his verses smelled more of the wine than oil.

So saith a turlupin or a new start-up grub of my books, but a turd for him. The fragrant odour of the wine, O how much more dainty, pleasant, laughing (Riant, priant, friant.), celestial and delicious it is, than that smell of oil! And I will glory as much when it is said of me, that I have spent more on wine than oil, as did Demosthenes, when it was told him, that his expense on oil was greater than on wine. I truly hold it for an honour and praise to be called and reputed a Frolic Gualter and a Robin Goodfellow; for under this name am I welcome in all choice companies of Pantagruelists. It was upbraided to Demosthenes by an envious surly knave, that his Orations did smell like the sarpler or wrapper of a foul and filthy oil-vessel. For this cause interpret you all my deeds and sayings in the perfectest sense; reverence the cheese-like brain that feeds you with these fair billevezees and trifling jollities, and do what lies in you to keep me always merry. Be frolic now, my lads, cheer up your hearts, and joyfully read the rest, with all the ease of your body and profit of your reins. But hearken, joltheads, you viedazes, or dickens take ye, remember to drink a health to me for the like favour again, and I will pledge you instantly, Tout ares-metys.

Rabelais to the Reader:

Good friends, my Readers, who peruse this Book, Be not offended, whilst on it you look: Denude yourselves of all depraved affection, For it contains no badness, nor infection: 'Tis true that it brings forth to you no birth Of any value, but in point of mirth; Thinking therefore how sorrow might your mind Consume, I could no apter subject find; One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span; Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Also I've been v much enjoying Pubic Hair Ltd.

Why you fucking hiding
Behind a stupid car?
Doing 30 in a 40,
Playing solo Johnny Marr?

Who gives a fuck about yesterday's heroes,
Who seem to think they are still today's heroes?
It's not a pyramid, you're not a fucking pharoah.

I keep finding it amusing. Both the initial image and the playground second bit.

you're not a fucking pharoah

too perfect

Be a lot more interesting if dude ws

This shit is great.

At Rough Trade for Record Store Day. Opening scenes are... unexpected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Njw0gYyVFQ

Ha these dudes are too perfect

It's like Begby from Trainspotting: the band

that guy is the nose scratchingist emcee i have ever seen......

that woman at the front in the final few frames with the five year old child is going to have some explaining to do when her kid goes back to nursery this week

on their FB page today:

"Ello. I would like to apologise to those that came to see us in Brighton last night. It's been really busy this past few months and old demons got the better of me. It's no excuse and it's not on. Really sorry. Jason"

Does anyone know what happened?

went AWOL drinking in London I think.

not really sure what happened. just before they were due to go on the promoter or road manager or someone climbed up on stage and announced that they wouldn't be playing cos "one of them had gone MIA in south london" but he refused to expand on that. i did see the guy who isn't jason outside the pub earlier on, and a tweet from a local listings magazine claimed they were both there but couldn't be arsed, but i don't know how true that was. most of the speculation i've seen is that jason was too hungover/drunk to make it. anyhow, local punk poet atilla the stockbroker seized the opportunity to take the stage so i made a swift exit to go and see some other gig instead. saw another tweet later that the other sleaford mod did go on and play some music but again, dunno if that's true or not...

anyhow nevermind, rescheduled for october apparently, so he can have a bit of a lie down til then

Yes, it seems that Andrew Fearne went on alone - http://youtu.be/dKv4K8dYMMA - and handed out free CDs as compensation.

ha good bloke, wish i'd stayed now

that gig surely at the vanguard in the long-running trend towards gigs becoming more purely like rooms of people listening to the same thing

I take it the album will be straight into the top ten, if not number one, and the papers will be all "Where did that come from?" business.

top lead review in the new mojo.

http://thetalkhouse.com/talks/luke-haines-the-auteurs-black-box-recorder-talks-sleaford-mods-divide-and-exit/

he is such a shit writer

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.

Recorded a track ("Ibiza") with the Prodigy

Matador 7" is a hole in the collection, can't find it anywhere.

Woof, is there any chance you could pick me up a copy of the 7" split with Sudden Infant that will be on sale tonight? Gossip suggests it's only available in very small numbers so unlikely it's be on sale anywhere other than the 100 Club.

no problem - I'll look for it and report back tomorrow on success/failure.

7" split with Sudden Infant

amazing, love this even if I never hear it

they're also doing a single on Iron Lung which is comparably ill-fitting/excellent

no-one seems to sell any of the Matador singles club releases, even by bands who aren't quite as collectible rn

The Anton Newcombe-released 'Fizzy' is starting shipping today as well.

FWIW, the Matador 7" tracks are also on Chubbed Up: The Singles Collection, which is on digital release already and vinyl release very soon.

Meanwhile, Jason goes pro:

Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods · 1h 1 hour ago
25 long fuckin years setting that alarm clock have ended. Ello tunes.

did someone come along and offer more ££/$$ that matador then ?

It was his last day at work today, apparently. The plan was always to give it up this autumn, as demand for gig bookings grew.

live the dream.

they totally deserve a few years of fun.

Aldo - split single acquired - I think my ilx mail works (also on twitter)

i have the routine dean 45, ws (would sell)

ended up snaffling woof's spare ticket, which led to a slightly odd evening of going to the first half of what I was originally doing - watching Andreas Staier on fortepiano at the Wigmore Hall doing Schubert moments musicaux, Schumann fantasiestücke (after ETA Hoffman), and some Beethoven bagatelles. This was a remarkable, slightly more forceful set of interpretations than you'll hear in other performances. I find the Fantasiestücke (Op 12) slightly inscrutable, but the intricacy and lyricism of the Schubert pieces, makes you feel like you're looking into a momentary scene in which the detail is revelatory and meaningful - like a piece of lyrical memory that stays with you forever despite its slightness. also by fuck it makes you want to be in Vienna.

then hotfooted it to the 100 Club and watched Sudden Infant, Consumer Electronics and Seaford Mods - all of whom were very good I thought. Inventive belligerence of different types, with some tasty crowd antagonism on the part of Consumer Electronics. Not a huge amount of flexibility in the SM approach, but when Jason's going full whack it's very entertaining and generally bucks up the spirit.

schubert and philip best on the same transplanted bill. the city of wonders

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

!

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.

Don't underestimate Sleaford Mods.

if musicians didn't talk shite in the press, we would doubt their credentials

[/sleafordmods]

I like Sleaford Mods it's fun

Well I wouldn't necessarily say they are talking shit but anyhow I find this kind of discussion and topic - whether I agree with it or not - more interesting than say who will be the next host of XFactor or what the latest lounge suite colour might be. Also better to hear some unfriendly fire rather than the kind of talk that comes out as muffled and bland from being safely squeezed between the two fat dripping buns of commerce and mediocrity.

Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner used his acceptance speech at this evening's Brit Awards (February 19) to insist that "rock'n'roll will never die".

The Sheffield band won two awards at the ceremony at London's O2 Arena, taking home the gongs for British Group and British Album. "There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain," quipped Turner after he and his bandmates collected the first prize but, when picking up the award for British Album for last year's 'AM', he said: "That rock 'n'roll, eh? That rock'n'roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules.

"But it's always waiting there, just around the corner," he added. "Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock'n'roll, it seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it." He then told organisers to "invoice me for the microphone if you wanna" before dropping it on the floor.

Alex Turner may be basically the little kid from Blues Brothers 2000, but he's not wrong.

Rock 'n' roll as a concept is embarrassing outdated conservative shit that needs to be called out for all it's excruciating horror at every point

What about the current California scene of mainly women-led bands who are as comfortable referencing Prince and Madonna as the Ramones? They're not conservative or outdated but I'd be hard pressed to describe what they do as anything other than rock.

Rock'n'roll is not that. Rock'n'roll is stupid fucking Arctic Monkeys prick trying to assert that his fun is more important than yours.

Prick boys in leathers living out their dad's fantasies

Prick boys in leathers living out their dad's fantasies

this is making Arctic Monkeys sound much more exciting than they actually are

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41exo5eq8SL._AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-58,22_AA300_SH20_OU15_.jpg

There are always good rock bands but they don't tend to be the ones spending a lot of time "saving rock"

"He then told organisers to "invoice me for the microphone if you wanna" before dropping it on the floor."

party on!

is everyone agreeing with the sleaford mods now because that is the exact behaviour he is calling out, not advocating.

http://springfieldfiles.com/albums/books/0011.JPG

is everyone agreeing with the sleaford mods now because that is the exact behaviour he is calling out, not advocating.

shit like this is giving a little too much credit to the mods - both he and alex turner would post a pic of them with mick jones and put "real" next to it. the mods just think they're a shade rawer and realer, when the joke is they're just as narcissistic as the people they're mocking.

"we don't spout vain anti-pop bullshit on the stage of the nme we spout vain anti-pop bullshit in the guardian op-ed section"

Dollar sound like Led Zeppelin when placed alongside Scouting For Girls

You have to admit that is utterly perfect self-clowning

If I were trying to lampoon the cultural myopia of these prophets telling it like it is I could not have bettered that

DA croup with awesome year late hot takes

Lol

But that guardian thing is not from a year ago tho I'm sure these dudes' schtick has remained unchanged for millennia

did Alex Turner ever clarify if his brits speech was supposed to be ironic? I seem to remember that being quite a hot topic for a bit

Lol

But that guardian thing is not from a year ago tho I'm sure these dudes' schtick has remained unchanged for millennia

yeah sorry if i'm a johnny-come-lately for discovering this band you like is full of shit, ums

surely challenging the paradigms of out-of-touch folk like myself was their goal in writing a guardian op-ed

also "yeah this (allegedly, though not on this thread) came up a year ago" is a weird defense of an article that references a lyric from 2009 as proof of shit hard rock macho posturing and sly stone as an example of good music

though honestly i get the sense that everyone defending these champs has actively avoided reading what they have to say

it's always a good day to remind people that sly stone is an example of good music.

yes but the word has been out for a while

That's what's so hilarious about the dollar-led-zep-scouting-for-girls triangulation, like how perfectly out of touch

Hoping the "The Mods"/scouting for girls beef has legs tbh

i'm just sad they're probably too cool to have dinner with russell brand and noel gallagher cuz it sounds like they'd have fun

I'm sure I'd have fun at dinner with writer & activist russell brand & career comedians noel gallagher & "The Mods" tbf

Like I don't want to seem too down on these guys, I think I said itt that I listened to & liked one of their comedy records but was surprised that they had like 10 of them & ppl cared

The one I heard was like "Brian Eno, what the fuck does 'e know"

i did wonder on first read if this article was some kind of klf parody of indie vanity but if it is, judging from their twitter they're playing the long game

and yeah again this is not a dis on their tunes which sound like bands i've liked

i had a pretty negative reaction to smug retro-post-punk stuff like art brut and lcd soundsystem on first blush, but eventually found their humor and hooks so i'm not assuming these guys aren't similarly capable

Yeah I unfollowed him on Twitter pretty quick and I'm a sympathiser

he's certainly assiduous in re-tweeting praise for the band

I believe he was a big Oasis fan and spent the 90s and on doing rock bands the whole minimal loop thing was at least part in being frustrated & sick of it

cool

There's some 10 minute or so minidoc where he said basically got sick of working on these songs trying to make them "good" and sending pro sounding demoes to indie labels this was more like we can make a song in 5 minutes with words and a cheap loop

I like these guys, but this Guardian rant isn't saying anything more than 'commercial music is shit nowadays'. Jaded middle-aged punker types have been saying exactly this for decades. His argument runs into problems in that he gives no back-up examples.
By 'Samey Winehouse', I assume he's talking about a particular brand of UK popstar, the the kind who makes appearances on Saturday Kitchen, gets nominated for a Brit Award and is marketed to people who like Amy/Adele but ultimately lacks the ingredient that made these unique. By 'rock'n'roll', I assume he means a particular brand of swaggering post-Britpop UK rock, the kind the NME and the rest of the music industry have been hanging their hopes on since at least 1998. This is what I assume he's saying. It's all an assumption. But because he mentions, like, three examples, one of whom are Scouting For Girls (who haven't released anything since 2012), his attacks come off as arbitrary and not a little bit rockist in places.
Fact is, I am also going to assume his argument comes from the right place. I'm inclined to agree there's been an ongoing and growing problem with the UK music industry in the notable lack of risk-taking since the economic collapse. This has led to a lot of bland, easily categorisable music being pushed to wide customer niches - you go in the Razorlight box; you go in the Dizzee Rascal box; you go in the Adele box etc... Careers being built on the backs of others. In some ways it's nothing new - this is marketing after all. But as I think someone a while back on ILM said, we're a far cry away from the days when a modestly successful UK pop-rock band like XTC could be granted the studio time to record a '60s psych-influenced vanity spin-off project.
It's not like the US. You guys still have GOOD 'rock' bands, many of whom get decent coverage around the world, play cool festivals and don't just sound like staid cut'n'pastes of something that was popular 15-20 years ago. That's not to say the UK doesn't have exciting bands who do sound unique, fresh, innovative or exciting. Save just a handful of exceptions, the majority are touring a batch of clapped-out toilets in commuter towns trying to scrape a living off selling a batch of handpressed CD-Rs. They're not being interviewed by Pitchfork. They're not playing Coachella. They're not even playing Reading Festival or appearing on Saturday Kitchen because they haven't got a record label. While the music media bemoans the death of Britpop, it forgets the real reason UK music felt so alive and fertile at that time: chances were being taken on acts like Portishead, Aphex Twin, Tricky, the Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, Suede, Massive Attack and countless others. I can't even imagine a band like the Manic Street Preachers getting as popular now as they did in the 1990s. The majors wouldn't sign them and the indies just don't have the platform they might once have, and that's all down to money I guess.

Saturday Kitchen! i wish i had a show named Saturday Kitchen.

that's some old-school stuff from dog latin right there. you'd think this thread was ten years old.

His argument runs into problems in that he gives no back-up examples.

sadly that's not where his argument runs into problems

it's weird to hear him sing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE0QC9nFrDE

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

I'm looking forward to this (is it out?).

released in May I think

mostly pro-mods still, but:

he's certainly assiduous in re-tweeting praise for the band

soref otm, find the stream of 'AT LAST, real music with real attitude' retweets coming from them a bit dismal. The swagger-of-oasis satisfactions for 6Music culture-class.

& re:swagger, recent tweets say they're on The Who's support bill this summer, just above slydigs:

a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

I see that a lot on Twitter. Honestly, the fans like it as much as the artists; it's a mutual appreciation society.

"The smell of piss is so strong it smells like decent bacon" has to be one of the alltime best one-liners.

Tiswas EP is really good, they slowly seem to be moving away from the more garage rock sample beats, within their very limited minimal thing

ive no interest in the 'music' produced by these guys but I'm a fan of their analyses

would you particularly rate the observation that placed next to scouting for girls dollar sound like led zeppelin

Why are all their cultural reference points so ancient: Tiswas, Oompa Loompas, Buzz Lightyear, Touche Turtle, etc. Is it some kind of deliberate throwback to the days of Atilla the Stockbroker or whoever? Like Pulp singing about lyrcra and woodchip?

they're old tbf

I do not know dollar but have heard some led zep

Ha I don't understand like 75 percent of the references so they could be old or new English indie baseball angry man talk whaddya know

I do remember that in the mid-80s Dollar were the assumed to be the epitome of lightweight MOR fluff. Had a Dollar poster on the wall during my student days actually - partly ironic for them being so universally mocked, partly genuine because Trevor Horn connection validated my liking of some of their singles. Feels like you have to be mid-40s to make any sense of this.

deems I'm not the biggest led zeppelin fan, louis is more your man for that sort of raucous experimental uk prog-folk but fwiw this is my favourite led zep song

Sleaford Mods 30+ years behind Tracy Ullman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgkoaXWdXc

sorry wins i dont take candy from strangers, money from friends or music tips from internet message board i love music

they're playin' in fuckin' 'itchin tonight!

I do remember that in the mid-80s Dollar were the assumed to be the epitome of lightweight MOR fluff.

Not sure how true that is, Paul Morley never stopped going on about them so they were popular with the New Pop wing at the NME.

"mirror mirror" is an interesting tune.

"hand held in black and white" is pretty good too. Dollar were like Trevor Horn's pet project (before FGTH arrived)

I do remember that Dollar were assumed to be the epitome of mid-80s lightweight MOR fluff.

Fixed.

It was Trevor Horn's work with Dollar that got him the gig with FGTH/ ZTT I think? Certainly not his stint as Jon Anderson as Yes.

It definitely got him the gig with ABC for The Lexicon Of Love; Martin Fry's on the record about that.

"Ibiza" - The Prodigy ft Sleaford Mods - https://youtu.be/guUHZnbWoyo

a testament to Andrew Fearn's importance to the band

yep

wait, don't prodigy already have a ranter? what happened to their clown?

oh shit, did the clown die?

rip prodigy clown

Bad move for the Sleaford Mods to hitch their wagon to such has-beens.

xpost. As far I know, Trevor Horn only produced four songs for Dollar. The ones mentioned by various people upthread of course. Those songs are lauded retroactively by eg. ILM types for being Trevor Horn productions, not because they are Dollar songs. Most of their hits were produced by others.

wiki says keith flint (the funny hair prodigy shouty guy) is alive and well and still in the band

Bad move for the Sleaford Mods to hitch their wagon to such has-beens.

hey now the prodigy sound like aerosmith when placed next to newton faulkner

there I said it

Dud.

Don't know who Newton Faulkner is. But both the Mods and the Prodigy sound really old-fashioned right now. Their gigs are full of dudes in their forties. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Went to a couple of Exploited gigs in the 90s that were great fun.

I had to strain pretty hard to dredge up a target that would be as laughably "who? oh right, them" as SFG tbf

is that dog latin post real, the side comment about the US having REAL rock bands made me wonder if he was trying for his own ranty over music career

I never said anything about 'real' anything.

I apologize, you said GOOD

:)

Anyway, that Prodigy thing is really really terrible. may as well have got Keith Flint to shout 'oibeefa! Wass 'e fackin' doing?' over that sad excuse for a beat and saved Williamson the trouble.
enjoyed seeing them the other night at a packed out local show. surprised that the average age was, yes, about 45 or perhaps more. kind of expected there to be a bit of a hip, younger contingent but not really. spoke to the dad of a friend outside who was enthusing about them. then had to endure some grumpy bugger i know who hates everything go on about 'they're good but they'll never last unless they get a proper band together' which was pretty lol.

shit the Ibiza track is no good? i guess it was never going to be as good as we heard it in our heads in advance.

yeah the Dollar thing, ABC hired him for Lexicon.. because of the Dollar singles and then TH approached FGTH by which point he was already A Big Deal.

ibiza thing is like the worst 90's thing ever. i was never a fan though. dirtchamber thing was the only thing i ever liked by them.

hay scott

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000009622969-zevklk-original.jpg?8460df1

srsly though how can you not love "experience"

i guess it was never going to be as good as we heard it in our heads in advance.

The thing I'm hearing in my head in advance is fucking terrible, I can't think of any two acts more likely to bring out the absolute worst in one another.

...no comment xxp

that is actually wins in that painting, funny story

i will never listen to it again perhaps but i actually like that prodigy song tbh, the objective terribleness somehow only enhances its gleeful mania. kind of reminds me of when the fall started doing dance stuff like why are people grudgeful

I'd say it sounds like the Revolting Cocks but that might imply it had merit.

xp it reminded me a bit of that MES & D.O.S.E. track a bit, the Fall go big beat was really a sound the world had been waiting for

Reminds me of 'DARE' by Gorillaz. Indie frontman + electronica combo might be one of my least favourite genres. Never sounds quite right, and yeah like Matt DC says, more often than not it's the worst of both worlds.

Plug Myself In was great fuiud

hell no I'm not going to listen back to see if 19 years of hindsight might have changed that view

by the sound of it there was little to no collaboration per se on the 'Ibiza' track, Jason just sent them some lyrics and they put it over a standard neo-Prodigy beat

it's certainly nothing special but I'd kind of rather Jason offhandedly did stuff like this rather than wave it away because the Prodigy aren't the coolest thing on the block anymore

Never sounds quite right

i think that's what i liked about it - it sounded demented

and hell no I'm not going to listen back to see if 9 hours of hindsight might have changed that view

At this point the Prodigy really are starting to sound like Jeremy's 'Outrageous' bedroom track from Peep Show.

ha

Their next collab is with Leftfield - a pattern begins to emerge. http://www.nme.com/news/leftfield/83915

Chemical Bros collab coming soon

This is a bit embarrassing.

At this point the Prodigy really are starting to sound like Jeremy's 'Outrageous' bedroom track from Peep Show.

Ha ha. "No, mum, I'm not coming in for my DIINNNAHH... Eat it your FUCKING SELF"

And did those feet
In ancient times
FEEL IT

This is a bit embarrassing.

― Matt DC,

agreed.
bills have to be paid.
suspect that they are beginning to learn that being outside the loop means you can do/say whatever the fuck you like, whereas now with signatures provided on various forms, life is no longer that simple.
expect lyrics re being fucked over by the music industry in 2 years.

i really enjoy them
they feel to me like something that's not going to last, or at least in a vital way, for a super long time
but that's ok too, not everything needs to
i mean jeez i could count some of the greatest punk bands of all time that never had more than a handful of singles and maybe an album

Jase and Andy.
Your job is now done.
You were absolutely vital and I thank you for that shot in the arm.

Seen Seaford Mods as much as I saw Husker Du. They are now at the 'Warehouse...' phase. Fearny no longer required

Yes, I am an old bastard like SM. Where's the yoooof? They must be so contented with their Xbox , FB and zzzzzzzz
Is music dead?

this isn't intended as a criticism but you always sound drunk when you post

Saw them in Hebden Bridge two nights ago. Sixth time I've seen them, but the first time outside Nottingham. Hands-down the best show I've ever seen them do. Never seen Jason so absorbed, intense and fierce.

Thanks Mencap.

I'm actually a straight edge vegan. Since last night.
I was a touch hungover (possibly still drunk, so well spotted) and my post was rather poor . I wish I could retract it.

Sleaford Mods are vital.

At this point the Prodigy really are starting to sound like Jeremy's 'Outrageous' bedroom track from Peep Show.

― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:11 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a review which is original on two different levels

Saw them in Hebden Bridge two nights ago

Dont know anything about this band but last year I lived 3 minutes walk from the Trades Club (which is where I presume this was)

It was, of course, the venerable Trades Club - talk about "core constituency".

The support act, a performance poet, drew a furious heckle: "STOP USING CUNT AS A DEROGATORY TERM". The first song on the SM set list? Oh, I see you're ahead of me.

that sounds like Hebden, did you stay over, there?

Yes, at Croft Mill, which was A+. Found the music store slash cafe the following morning, spent a happy half hour there.

amazing show tonight in Manchester. they've got this new one (possibly Bronx In A Six) which has a mentally loud (and fantastic) bass that was giving me major MBV flashbacks.

Surprised nobody is talking about the new one, which has some minor departures (more surreal lyrics in some places; some vocals that are very nearly sung). It's really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-gvxxhcS8s

I reviewed it a few weeks ago, and I think it's their best yet: a consolidation and a progression. The Tarantula Deadly Cargo/Rupert Trousers/Giddy On The Ciggies sequence towards the end of Side 2 is particularly killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM2f0YWhP9o

liked no one's bothered, interesting too see how long they can last w/the formula

andy partridge endorsement sold me on these guys. v prime-era Fall

Suspended from UK Labour, apparently..

They can kick you out of their party?

new album out: English Tapas

really digging it, feels like maybe they were saving their a-game for the Rough Trade debut, best since Divide & Exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZN01Cqzek

slightly expanding, vox a little more melodic..last song "I Feel So Wrong" is pretty...lush (relatively speaking) for them

"Suspended from UK Labour, apparently.."

I don't think I like the music but fair play for calling Dan Jarvis a "posing cunt".

really digging it, feels like maybe they were saving their a-game for the Rough Trade debut, best since Divide & Exit

agree with this. a bit more focused after quitting the booze/drugs, perhaps?

TRIP TO SPAR IS LIKE A TRIP TO MARS *beep beep*

It comes as a relief after the TCR EP; lead track aside, I thought the other ones were coasting it a bit. But this is bang on again.

yeah TCR EP was pretty weak I thought, TIWAS maxi/single EP thing was pretty ok, mostly just because they were probably contractually obligated to eventually title a song "Bunch of Cunts"

This band are so embarrassing.

why embarrassing?

williamson has such a mix of vulnerability & endeavour to him it's more like fondly rolling yr eyes at an old school friend imo

Yeah otm, hearing the awfulness of Slaves made a pretty great case to me of just how much Sleaford Mods do right

i agree but i think too many bands don't risk being embarrassing now

or i like the earnestness disguised as cynicism

in their very minimal, blunt instrument way i think that their beats are kind of amazing and catchy

they have such a limited musical palette that i'm pretty surprised they've managed to last this long

Re the "where in the history of other bands do they fit in" vein present in parts of this thread: might an elephant in the room be Carter USM?

Then again, a track on the new one reminded me of DAF more than anything!

"Just Like We Do" cracks me up, especially the phrase "social medias".

What's a drag, is that there is a cassette edition, couple of hundred, with odd nick-nacks freebies, and side 1 has the album and side 2 has a live gig.

Now, I'd like the live gig, but it sold out in seconds and it's now selling on ebay for around £50.

The package comes with a download for the live gig (only), but no place else to get it.

They were the answer in a pub quiz I was in last week. Sellouts.

I had to look up what BHS was but now I actually like the song better.

I could see Carter USM in a way

in a very correct way

Would still take Prinzhorn Dance School over these lads.

i guess they felt a little more like a proper band and also more part of what was going on w/dance music at the time, to me at least

Fearn's deciding to not do the whole phony "let me put my headphones on one ear and pretend i'm messing with all these knobs" thing is def one of my fav things about SM

I think they're ironically aware of the Carter USM thing; there's a track on the new album that is somewhat laden with You Fat Bastards.

What really cartered it for me may have been the "Brexity Roller" pun.

aaaaaand i'm out

just discovered the genius of sleaford mods

he seems like a good egg

https://themindmap.co.uk/interviews/going-emotions-sleaford-mods/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj8aaw2X4AASFIX.jpg

:)

Carter USM comparison is kinda apt, still love them though

new record getting good early reviews - I guess S.M usually do

new album is great, a little more oomph and atmosphere in the instrumentals, I think. but also a kazoo

still fucking good

Unexpected lockdown cover of 'BHS' by Glenn Tilbrook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9fYkma_YVo

haha amazing.

Love live videos of SM, with the producer bopping his head and drinking a tallboy every time.

The only band Mark E. Smith was willing to praise near the end of his life? Pretty surprising, seemed Fall-adjacent enough for him to get mad.

I hadn't heard that! makes sense though...

I make a little time in my life for the Sleaford Mods every now and then

Marc Riley praised a lot more and his opinion means a lot less but I would just like to co-opt this thread to say that his approval of the Flat Worms was not done in error, they are good

The female guest vocals on a couple of the new tracks do feel like a welcome alleviation of the sometimes relentless blokiness of this stuff, while still being totally consistent with the overall aesthetic.

ha I made a SM mix a couple weeks ago and brought her verse in twice

I don’t really think of them as particularly blokey per se; Jason’s not like his onstage persona when he’s offstage, and Andrew’s gay. That said, I do also welcome the recent female guest vocals... they offset something.

I think it's their best album in a while

Billy Nomates solo work is quite good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhEX9n5DjZQ

like Viagra Boys they're definitely dudes but not very bro-y/bloke-y IMO

Heroes

Ooooer. We got reviewed by Anthony ‘Fuck You If Your Not White’ Fandango.

Totally bro’d out. https://t.co/Fzo6hTtnPO

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) March 22, 2021

Don’t be silly about it.
Listen to Sleaford Mods. #biggypop@IggyPop pic.twitter.com/pCTMGmOqgc

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) May 7, 2021

I FUCKING LOVE THIS!

What a fine idea!

@orbitalband + @sleafordmods
incoming....Wednesday - 13th October - 2021 pic.twitter.com/UtOPWHtS0R

— Orbital (@orbitalband) October 12, 2021

!?

I encourage this.

woah that's cool

bring it

The vocalist was on one track from the Scorn album before this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4APkN6hUZo

Before the current one, I mean. Track above is from 2019.

Here it is in full:
I Don't Rate You (Orbital Remix) - Sleaford Mods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CmH2xvf1Og

I came back, I thought James' t-shirt said "MeganAsFuck" I was like wo.

Andrew's t-shirt, I mean.

Currently on their biggest tour in the UK; this is a nice surprise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031ltWRGioQ

You don't think it's going to work... and then it does.

The Uncut Curated Editions Special is well worth getting, BTW. It's pleasingly thorough, and they've clearly taken leading roles in its construction.

https://✧✧✧.un✧✧✧.c✧.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sleaford-mods-co✧✧✧@1400x1050-696x✧✧✧.j✧✧

https://www.uncut.co.uk/publications/special-issues/introducing-our-latest-online-exclusive-curated-by-sleaford-mods-134439/

Just wanted to say wow and fucking wow at this band right now. Released banging new video featuring Perry Farrell. Force Ten and UK GRIM both outstanding stuff. I am buzzing for the new album this weekend.

I was so bowled over by English Tapas at its time that I've found everything since then vaguely more pedestrian, but yeah, "Force 10" in particular is promising. Who's the guest vocalist?

In the process of not finding out that on discogs, I learned about the 2022 Orbital collab, which sounds suitably mad and dandy.

Florence Shaw (from Dry Cleaning) is the collab for Force 10

Bought the new one this morning, not yet listened but will get around to it later. They're doing a live internet broadcast tomorrow at 9pm bst on YT wit Q and A

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for YT headsup!

"get married and go on safari" cracks me up every time. They do have this knack of striking imagery, to use ilx parlance.

oh more heads up on that yt thing, Mods say from 8:30 they will be in chat to answer questions.

when he sings "don't go" upthread he sounds rather a lot like Paul Weller

liking this one more than the last few

Perry Farrell sounds like he was airdropped in from a '90s ska-punk record.

Hiya Dan. Apologies but we are not sharing a bill. Sheer Mag are supporting us because this is our tour. Credit where credits due, of course and I understand this is their hometown, however this isn’t an event that has a shared billing. They are the support.

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) April 10, 2023

(in relation to a tweet saying they’re sharing the bill)

followed by throwing his toys out of the pram when being mocked for it

It was about that time again I guess for accounts with under 15 thousand followers, loosely connected to gatekeepers and disc jockeys to accuse us once more of punching down. A term beyond ripe for the bin, along with ‘vital’ and ‘amazing’.

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) April 12, 2023

settle down lad, you're not a fucking pharoah

hilarious that they would care so much abt being the main act?

Talking to @mattforde very soon. Tickets on sale now innit. https://t.co/FgI9BnkYcq

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) July 2, 2023

Aaaaaaaand they're finished

it's bad enough getting the kiss of death from that unfunny melt twat, but then being civil towards him - that is a cancellation level crime alright!

"this plodding pub-rock number with trenchant lyrics about Universal Credit + Austerity Britain is dedicated out to our hilarious comrade buddy Matte Forde.."

Matt Forde's nine favourite records for mental wellbeing:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/comedian-matt-forde-nine-favourite-albums/

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pM0HcifJTI4xiiXfUjHK7?go=1&sp_cid=b7c0a2bd992f55c6376109a270042ba2&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1

opened the link with slight trepidation that this cunt would have reasonable taste in music, first choice was Be Here Now, so that was a relief, no need to read any further.

tbf I give him some credit for his defence of Dire Straits

Obviously a guy with a profound love for and appreciation of music

The reason it's nine albums and not ten is obviously because those are the only albums he's ever heard.

no need to read any further

You'd like to think so but you'd be wrong.

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

Williamson also seemed to use the performance to address earlier controversy surrounding the bands' stance on Palestine. In November 2023, they cut a concert short in Madrid after a Palestinian scarf was thrown onto the stage during their performance, leading to criticism on social media. During their Glastonbury set, Williamson adjusted the lyrics of 'Stick in a Five and Go' to include the line: "You fucking finger tappy tappy bastard. You fucking big mad bastard. Mr fucking political platform bastard. Mr fucking flag bastard."

such a bizarrely wretched caricature of angry Sun reading bloke, maybe that is supposed the appeal of this shitty band? God knows

Kind of disappeared after losing their shit about the Palestinian flags didn’t they?

Not much point in this band existing after Kneecap and Bob Vylan.

I just got to the point where I didn't need any more.

Same