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.

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

One Battle After Another was very good I thought. I wanted it to become an even bigger critique of extremism, especially on the Left. But realised it did enough, in the end. I wanted it to conclude with the idea that co-operation between all humans is the only answer …

— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) December 27, 2025

yeah he's an absolutely classic "i became a right winger cos i can't handle being pwned" douchebag

LOL, getting ripped to shreds in the replies too. Stupid cunt.

i think he's deleted it, pitiful twat

yes, he wasn't really getting anywhere with his arguments that a movie based a book about the US falling under the spell of "fascistic Nixonian repression" was not being hard enough on the left. Lol, keep thinking about these things, champion.

Really disappointed by this shit. Unsubscribed!!

sleaford mids

can't believe there were no winners in the Idles vs. Sleaford Mods beef

Jason is actually a really good dude. You’re getting angry about nothing here.

Don't think anybody angry, just laughing at the Melt of the Month club

I'd say the guy who storms off when someone throws a scarf on his stage is the one with anger issues.

he's a lamentable dickhead, so thoroughly melt-brained he's probably the next guest on a Matt Forde podcast.

I am broadly in favour of giving people the benefit of the doubt but this guy has doubled down and failed to reflect so many times now

his chuntering about Palestinian flags is worse than Thom Yorke pretending not to be thick and trying to nuance genocide in his posh accent. Because he doesn't have any real position on the genocide, seemingly other than some withering *student politics* both sides griping, but he's just too thick (or cowardly) to make any kind of cohesive argument. He only seems to be angry that he regularly gets clowned for his stupid takes.

If Cliff Richard or someone had kicked a keffiyeh off stage and stormed off in a huff it would be different but this clown's entire career is based on being politically engaged and "angry" - angry about stuff other than scarves being thrown on to a stage, that is.

... not that a pro like Cliff would ever storm off a stage, of course.

He's angry about Ye Harde Leffte now tbf

i.e. those people who roasted him on Twitter about his aversion to scarves.

Look it was in the middle of "My Work Coach is a Cockwomble" and it detracted from the message

I would like to apologise to Carter USM who at least acknowledged they were a political act and didn't just adopt all the signifiers like fucking Fight Club then throw their toys out of the pram when anyone expected them to stand for anything

was just reading about NHS doctors getting struck off for posting pro-Palestine stuff on twitter. There is good chance they are not really of this *hard left* that seemingly troubles this idiot's thoughts every day, just principled, decent people who think genocide is bad. Something he should perhaps reflect on before idiot posting with such a relatively big profile.

They've got an album coming out - a concept album (lol) - so plenty more opportunities for this utter bellend to make an arse of himself.

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/sleaford-mods-interview-jason-williamson-demise-planet-x-b1265554.html

I’ve wondered if this band are for people who like Guy Ritchie films

Refers to Starmer as "the Left" lol fuck off this is terminal

hah hah, it's just the worms after the brain has been completely eaten

Took several minutes to realise this wasn't someone doing a bit https://t.co/Z9qa2FvwFj

— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) January 8, 2026

this absolutely killed me the other day

Check the profile of the Sleaford Mod fan: George Cross, "Irish English", Boris Johnson "the greatest PM in UK history". Says it all really.

I remember bristling at how much reverence John Cooper Clarke has for all the British so called established greats of literature etc and him saying I don't like being called "counter-culture" I'm very much into all this culture. But then again JCC is about 6 million times the artiste this worthless tadpole could even dream of being.

yes I can forgive JCC for being an unapologetic Rudyard Kipling stan after watching that Sleaford Mods vid!