Expanded and fully-updated edition out on Friday!
Expanded and fully-updated edition out on Friday!
With Sleaford Mods celebrating another top 10 album and embarking on a worldwide tour, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn a call with a view to publishing a new updated edition of this special magazine. They said yes, they’d give us a hand.
So inside you’ll be able to read about what the band have been up to since we first met them at the tail-end of the pandemic. Two new albums, UK Grim and The Demise Of Planet X, have both been big hits. There’s been a starring role for Jason in Game, a tense and strange British film set in the early 1990s rave scene. There have been collaborations with interesting new people, like Gwendoline Christie. All round, there’s been several more exciting twists in their tale.
As you’ll read, theirs was quite a story anyway. It took about 15 years for Sleaford Mods to go from sofa-surfing solo project founded on uncleared samples and limited-run CD-Rs to being a principled duo with albums in the charts. Back then, Jason had a eureka moment when “the formula” for Sleaford Mods – looping a piece of music and then shouting over it – came to him, and since then he’s been driven by a conviction to make it work.
Theirs is an inspiring story you can read in full in this updated magazine, in which we dive deep, with the band’s help, into their influences, their beats, the pivotal events and the key places. Even their clothes. We’ve spoken to collaborators and former associates, hearing about formative experiences, milestone moments and enduring inspirations. We’ve talked about key films and acting, and tracked down local DJs. We travelled with them to the venue where they met. We even joined them in the studio as they worked up new songs.
One of Jason’s hobbies at the time we first spoke was studying the underworld of vintage terracewear. As he models some prized pieces for us, he alights on a light blue CP Company jacket which has appeared in a few Sleaford Mods photo shoots. In fact, the jacket seems to mirror the group themselves.
“Timeless,” he tells us. “Absolutely not concerned what you think about it.”
Enjoy the magazine. You can get yours here.
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