Sleaford Mods call themselves 鈥渆lectronic munt minimalist punk-hop rants for the working class and under from Nottingham, UK鈥� and it鈥檚 impossible to beat that description. They're a duo made up of singer/lyricist Jason Williamson and musician/producer Andrew Fearn, and about the most distinctly English group playing Glastonbury in 2015. They鈥檙e also proof that if you persevere and believe in your message, one day you鈥檒l get your shot. Formed in 2007 by Williamson (then working with a different collaborator, Simon Parfrement), Sleaford Mods didn鈥檛 make a breakthrough until their 2014 seventh album, Divide and Exit, when both Williamson and Fearn were deep into their 40s. (That said, they were hardly doing their commercial prospects a favour by calling a previous album Wank.)
As their set at the 6 Music Festival earlier in the year proved, Sleaford Mods make raw, politicised music for times of austerity. In Williamson, the group have a great poet of the everyman - a cross between John Cooper Clarke, The Streets and the nutty bloke down the pub who perfectly articulates day-to-day experiences but spits in your face when he鈥檚 talking. It鈥檚 not pretty, they鈥檙e not pretty, but we don鈥檛 live in pretty times and Sleaford Mods are deserving of the bigger audience this debut Glastonbury performance provides.
Sleaford Mods call themselves 鈥渆lectronic munt minimalist punk-hop rants for the working class and under from Nottingham, UK鈥� and it鈥檚 impossible to beat that description. They're a duo made up of singer/lyricist Jason Williamson and musician/producer Andrew Fearn, and about the most distinctly English group playing Glastonbury in 2015. They鈥檙e also proof that if you persevere and believe in your message, one day you鈥檒l get your shot. Formed in 2007 by Williamson (then working with a different collaborator, Simon Parfrement), Sleaford Mods didn鈥檛 make a breakthrough until their 2014 seventh album, Divide and Exit, when both Williamson and Fearn were deep into their 40s. (That said, they were hardly doing their commercial prospects a favour by calling a previous album Wank.)
As their set at the 6 Music Festival earlier in the year proved, Sleaford Mods make raw, politicised music for times of austerity. In Williamson, the group have a great poet of the everyman - a cross between John Cooper Clarke, The Streets and the nutty bloke down the pub who perfectly articulates day-to-day experiences but spits in your face when he鈥檚 talking. It鈥檚 not pretty, they鈥檙e not pretty, but we don鈥檛 live in pretty times and Sleaford Mods are deserving of the bigger audience this debut Glastonbury performance provides.
