Sleaford Mods present virtual polemic ahead of new album
With a new album out this month, Sleaford Mods are set to give fans a virtual taste of their new music this coming weekend.
To celebrate the release of their new album Spare Ribs, the duo has announced their latest global live event The Demise of Planet X that will be streamed live from Village Underground.
The show follows their much lauded live-stream from the basement of London’s 100 Club in September.
The Demise of Planet X global live-stream is announced as the band are poised to blow the cobwebs off life and unleash some much-needed wit and charm upon us with the release of their astonishing sixth studio album, entitled Spare Ribs, out via Rough Trade on January 15.
The polemical Jason Williamson and dexterous producer Andrew Fearn release their new album which has unrivalled bite, railing against hypocrisy, inequality and apathy with their inimitable, scabrous sense of humour.
“After the live-stream in September at the 100 Club, it was clear that the connection to the audience, although through a screen, was still as strong. We love playing. We love the songs we play. It’s never a problem to perform and after a year of not performing it’s a joy to appear on your screens” said Williamson.
The global live broadcast from the iconic Village Underground will take fans on a raucous ride through their acclaimed back catalogue and preview tracks from Spare Ribs, including recent singles Mork n Mindy and Shortcummings.
The Demise of Planet X Global Livestream Transmission times are ...
Saturday January 9, UK and Europe 9pm GMT
US and Canada (East Coast) – 9pm
US and Canada (West Coast) – 9pm
Sunday January 10, Australia, New Zealand and Asia – 9pm
AEDT/11pm NZDT/7pm JST and KST
The new album, featuring Amy Taylor of Melbourne punks Amyl and The Sniffers and the British newcomer Billy Nomates, finds the duo charged with ire at the UK Government’s sense of entitlement, epitomized by its devil-may-care approach to the coronavirus crisis.
In fact, Sleaford Mods are so plugged into the zeitgeist that attention-grabbing new song Shortcummings was written five months before shamed political adviser Dominic Cummings embarked on his infamous trip to Barnard Castle.
“I could see some things developing; I got quite interested in what he was about,” says Jason, adding that the song deals with “the disorientation being caused by his ideologies”.
That song emerged from an initial January session at JT Soar Studio in the band’s native Nottingham, a period of creativity that birthed four songs that appear on Spare Ribs.
As we all know too well, though, a lot has happened since then. Sleaford Mods continued to work in lockdown, but something wasn’t sticking.
“The songs I’d worked on that Andrew had sent me weren’t very good,” Jason admits. “We flung the rest of the album face-to-face.”
Reunited for a furious two-week studio blitz at JT Soar in July, he and Andrew crafted the rest of their excoriating new 13-song album.
It kicks off with their firstever intro track, the experimental A New Brick, which sees Jason adopt the persona of, as he describes it, a circus master, acknowledging with ironic jolliness “We’re all so Tory tired/And beaten by minds small.”