Sleaford Mods on Jeremy Corbyn, poverty and language

Ten years ago the Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson was lucky if he could afford a Mars bar and a can of Special Brew.
Ten years on - he and fellow musician Andrew Fearn have found commercial success by swearily ranting about boredom, poverty and what they call the 'un-incredible' landscape of Britain.
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[@R56Ollie]

'Your songs are really angry & they talk about life at the very, very bottom' - said the lady in the suit. This is normal life for a huge amount of people throughout the UK.

[@skatepunkseventy-seven8957]

+R56Ollie You're just wrong on one point. What they talk about is far from the very bottom, it's sadly represents an average city life.

[@mattjay3710]

+Skate Punk Seventy-Seven I think that was his point.

[@revol148]

who's to blame then?

[@TerryCrodgedy]

revol148 ... Bilderberg Group for starters

[@revol148]

....so basically free market economics which once worked so very well for so much of the western world is now the cause for their discontentment right?

[@muxz]

I love the mindset of the Mods. They make no apologies for who they are or are not, even to their fanbase. Two down to Earth guys just keeping it real.

[@henben9215]

And yet people don’t like to when they don’t share the same views? Mods as always ahead of there time

[@simonvanderirwin]

It's like the presenter has visited some animals at the zoo to study them and understand their way of life. Now she can go home and tell all her friends at a dinner party what she's learnt.

[@PBRStreetGang68]

"The fact that you've just bought a bag of chips and there not very nice" ............quality!

[@waynea7265]

You bought a f###ing potato

[@juilietpritchard6560]

@@waynea7265 ha ha ha

[@revol148]

+David Newman not nice chips - oh well first world problems eh? Try telling that to Syrian refugees and see if they offer any sympathy !

[@misterdiscipline580]

@@revol148 it's tongue in cheek. What's with the moral high ground quest? Obviously they've got it worse, but everyone has a battle or struggle somewhere.

[@martinperlstam9389]

Haha, that got to me too and something I think about. When I was a kid I think they used a different kind of oil and then it was all this"save the planet-oil" in the late 90's that fkd up all chips

[@dlythgoe5404]

After going down an hour and half vortex watching every video of these I could find . This is by far one of the best interviews I have seen of any band . What a pair of gents .

[@geoffmorrison4157]

Michael Fassbender, really going deep into preparation for his next role as Sleaford Mods frontman, Jason Williamson.

[@SleafordModsOfficial]

Haha

[@kildareire]

"Our art reflects our reality." - Ice Cube

[@andywalker9079]

👍

[@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty]

ice cube faked it till he made it

[@joechill6639]

Met him in Scunthorpe, absolutely great bloke. Took time to meet everyone in the crowd, must have taken him ages.

[@Scientificmethods]

+Tales From The Riverbank - Really, that's awesome :)

[@joechill6639]

Wright Baboons Yeah mate, a few lads were being drunk idiots but he was patient and cool to all his fans. A real gentleman.

[@SleafordModsOfficial]

Thank you X

[@Pfth]

I like how Jackie Long, the Channel 4 presenter, tried to trigger a scathing response from Jason about the "Jeremy Corbyn bandwagon" and how Jason was having none of it.

[@majormoo1]

stupid questions, theres a lot of swearing in your songs why? wow good one great interview

[@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor]

Yep dumb af why even bother

[@paddycourage]

They are the kick in the bollocks that music and society needed and deserved. Long Live The Mods!

[@Devik666]

Padraic o'donoghue uh partly 🤣

[@paulw9101]

so true that he says it's funny, some of the lyrics do make me laugh, I love how hard he belts it out, the Glastonbury 2015 set is immense

[@positionnormal]

This is the interview i needed to hear from them.

[@celinesaint729]

Would certainly be interesting to hear them asked the same questions... now... given the past 2 years, and the current world situation!! 😏😏

[@CantThinkofaCoolOne]

Cool guys.

[@bazooka1892]

antithesis of cool. horrible talentless pricks angry at their own lack of talent. if you are poor, dont pay your tv licence and council tax you will probably love them. cunts.

[@leopluradong]

+barry cox angry much bro

[@she_wench9856]

I think you just missed the point..entirely!! Or just made the point..entirely.!!..Well done..

[@alfacorsa145]

The best group in decades .

[@live0nmars]

The interviewer got eaten alive in her fancy dress without realizing it. Brilliant!

[@nobsaj]

No flim flam from these guys, they give it to you straight with a cheeky smile.

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Only Channel 4 could air something like this! Praise them lot!

[@FretFriendGWaL]

Saw 'em in Leeds in September! Brilliant!

[@lewisknight4199]

I was reading something about sleaford mods and I have respect for them as they have worked in the real world

[@Killakee111]

Makes me think of Ian dury so much

[@juilietpritchard6560]

yeah

[@suomiscot3236]

...oh..and 10/10 to me for not coming over all abusive and sweary 😇

[@pigslaught666]

Best live band iv ever seen!

[@Akco007]

Fantastic band, amazing performances. Got my chest signed by em when I was wasted in Derby's hairydog.

[@AholeAtheist]

Seems more like a public interrogation than an interview.

[@juilietpritchard6560]

yeah....nicely put

[@omgitalo]

Most fucking inane questions I heard in an interview.

[@mrbigolnuts3041]

exactly, like "why aren't you getting political? then we can really label you as the voice of the working class"

[@zaphodbeeblebroxburn9519]

Class act lads,my liking of this band just keeps growing and,as yer man there said,it’s got a sense of humour-the thing that can make a good band great. Most banging band since the Roses,IMO.Grew up in bands,so I’d like to think I know a good tune when I hear it-keep on kicking oot the jams 🤜🏻👌

[@richardcrighton8079]

been down there a long time ago and it's a ghost that won't go away

[@erich23588]

"Not a not of blue skies..." Hilarious. It's England afterall.

[@donnasmyth45]

Dunno. I've seen more blue skies lately. Lack of planes airborne.

[@Mikedawgs]

He makes a good point

[@weirsoundz294]

Michael Reyes he makes many

[@paintingholidayitaly]

What the interviewer will never understand.. Is that she is also at the very very bottom. Sure her house is in a slightly safer street but she is not immune either...to the forces of circumstance that change our world daily. Credit to Mods for not blaming and not pointing...just the commentary of realism.. More please

[@harrydebastardeharris987]

We need more of it,good onya Lads,say it large.....

[@markmacdonald3260]

Awww Channel 4! Bless them.

[@iamagoblin]

very good.

[@thefinalfrontear9870]

Was that woman struggling to suppress an explosive Vomit of classist Revulsion at coming into contact with a pair of 'ordinaries'? She seemed confused'.

[@juilietpritchard6560]

ha ha....yes...she did....perhaps she had only read about people like these guys

[@jamescole8274]

The messages are clear. If you don't like it listen to something else!

[@robertmelia3780]

Brothers 💜

[@gingerninja5028]

Ha... loving that they featured the dirty car boot message from Parfs 'Up North Video'

[@skanskar]

Hoping to get there album for Xmas 😎

[@bradleythornton8639]

Great band... great lyric and of the time... what more can I say. Its real.

[@sylviaharing8329]

Personally I find ALL (music, people, energie ,ALL) special,powerful, enjoyable and still seriously breaking, or setting up...movement for anyone in any way...love,wish you all well...

[@danyeldenfer5543]

j'adore !!!!!! yeah le meilleur groupe actuel !

[@stephenroche5107]

So good

[@johnbarry1965]

The only authentic voice of anger in the UK,

[@revol148]

+John Barry ......there's hardly much (any?) competition!

[@okochannell]

+revol148 napalm death?

[@revol148]

they were from the late 1980's grandad !

[@theweirdbritishguy5035]

revol148 and they are still very relevant

[@revol148]

I agree - but like I said I don't think they have much competition.I do like the Spanish girl group called Hinds but then that may have something to do with their looks.

[@irish-medi-weed-grower5240]

Jeremy Corbyn reeks of compassion . That's why he is gone . Compassion has no place in politics .

[@miguelmagalhaes4795]

responsability to be intelligent... to thing about things!

[@garethbeaton8414]

We love the mods uk grimsby

[@seriously1657]

Ok this I get

[@andrewsmart2949]

legends

[@alisdairfindlay4304]

19 point 2, top, metaL? 18.4 , ROB? JOBSEEKER!! CAN OF STRONGBOW, I'M A MESS

[@liamkennedy3217]

+Al Doom it says 19.2 top, 18.4 mate middle, Rob. He used to have a job in freezers and that's something to do with the temperatures I believe

[@alisdairfindlay4304]

+Liam Kennedy Thanks mate, it suddenly makes more sense, I could not understand why he was saying metal? Middle. Of course. I knew it was about Jason's job in a food refridgeration warehouse, but , that Gramtham accent is tricky for A GLASWEGIAN I have had this: 19.2, 18.4, loop in my head, I wake up to it, drive to it, why? I have no idea, but I fucking love it, love it. MIDDLE

[@crumpledtenners]

+Al Doom Same mate haha

[@ukno001is]

Those thumb downs concern me.

[@juilietpritchard6560]

ha ha ha

[@c.s.4428]

They'll soon have spiders coming out of their donner's crown!

[@EdWood2006]

Awesome band.

[@mrg4388]

Adorable guys. Looooove them. :)

[@dc7370]

Great band found accidentally by watching the idles _ if you're ever in the states get some cheese whiz at a Walmart at 3:00 in the morning and talk your way into a car out front. There's many people living there. Really good folk

[@Devik666]

It’s like there bringing back pub rock 🤣

[@c.s.4428]

Or... you could say that they're introducing "pub beats"

[@clumsiii]

new album now i finally heard -- takes a while for the good to get out

[@paulotonedef]

bourgeois reporter.

[@soggz4246]

The future, now! FFS! Brilliant!

[@Metal-Possum]

I have a feeling she doesn't like their music.

[@lisamay5729]

Wow, taken me till just 53.....fuk I love them... All my mates love/respect... Go on Boyz... They have brains, humour, savvi and all tings they say.. They are saying what we all want to... And fuk I swear too. Sometimes it's just gotta be done.... Respect.. Thanks.. I'm listening and laughing.... Keep it going.. We fuken love ya... We need this xxx Lisa

[@jasonbennett5279]

top bloke

[@suomiscot3236]

Incredible eh? I paid to see them and it was incredible. Incredibly good. Do you decide what people like then? Oh yeah forgot...you don't.

[@alisdairfindlay4304]

+Suomi Scot Got tickets for Bristol Bierkeller next Sunday, £16.50 , which is low. Try and get tickets to a larger venue for that? Five of us going, we are all well excited, being recent converts to the Sleaford Mods band(wagon).

[@gmantramp404]

£16.50 too expensive for what they're meant to be. An experiment with bad language

[@thevelointhevale1132]

They're nothing to do with Hip Hop .... this is part of an English traidition of oratory that goes back to UK Squeeze doing Cool For Cats and to the Speakers Corner at Hyde Park ... this pure British oratory put to some beats.

[@juilietpritchard6560]

yeah

It's all about the fucking chips.

[@alanrichards2747]

great track they done with the prodigy, ibiza.

[@extrastype]

if I sang songs Id sing these songs.... OK ain't they

[@bryonyleighton7402]

Underclass????? Wtf?!!!

[@Geckatron]

Aye and all good shit. smile from me.

[@laurazuccato288]

song at 0:42 ?

[@scootjockey]

Don,t like the music ,BUT clever stuff ..

[@deckofcards87]

This interviewer's questions are about as daft and obvious as they come.

[@luceatluxvestra1]

Top.

[@hufclufc]

Mark E Smith, you can stop now!

[@smithalien]

worzel gummidge fuck off!

[@whitedwarf13]

Mark has stopped now. R.I.P.

[@patrickdalton3174]

The Fall died a long time ago

[@leegsy]

Jason looks like he could be Michael Fassbender's cousin.

[@terencemagee]

Intelligence at last!

[@mitchw6483]

Expected them to be a bit more outspoken/angry

[@onlinemoneymadeeasy1317]

They were party animals who calmed down and got political instead. Not really "the underclass" or "the voice of the working man".

[@mannykrag3486]

David Icke should get more credit

[@phineasmurph9539]

Horrible questions

[@mattytorques]

Vote Sleaford Mods! Williamson for PM.

[@daniels.2720]

...if John Cooper Clarke had spawns...

[@Thrashsquatch]

FIZZAY!!

[@miritellogilberto895]

At the end .. what they said ?

[@xxtiaan]

Christ, could the interviewer be a little more condescending and out of touch?

[@kevingray5646]

Is Sleaford a nice place? What is mod

[@milothedog555]

👍

[@weirsoundz294]

She demands that Waitrose deliver her thickly sliced ham between 2 and 4 because she picks up Bertie from School - ya C***

[@davidcowan4942]

Why are comment's now more important than the people who get off their behinds and do something?

[@dengie75]

' its just like eeh "

[@mrfarkyhars9192]

I bet Guardian readers love em

[@juilietpritchard6560]

ha ha ha

[@connor-bj6ku]

Probably. They do seem like the Mail would call them "loony left"

[@juilietpritchard6560]

@@connor-bj6ku ha ha....yes ...

[@montyoneify]

We do. You like Alexei Sayle?

[@southerner4566]

So what does that other geezer actually do apart from stand there with a can of beer in his hand ?.

[@_marvinsuggs_]

Make the music you hear behind the voice.

[@nathanshannon5833]

Respeck!

[@sourjellybaby4286]

Lead singer comes across as likeable, but the sidekick to the lead singer sounds a bit posh, not that this is a problem, just I was expecting a Notts accent like Jason.

[@juilietpritchard6560]

yes....side kick....much classier guy!!!!! ha ha....they get along great I think

[@ggkitchener1122]

He was a farmer's lad

[@MichaelDevlin-nr5fs]

The voice of the working class.....oh Jesus, do me a favour! They've nicked everything that Manchester was doing forty-odd years ago! Give over will yo?

[@jamestracey5958]

None of these media Outlets deserve an interview I'm shocked that they did it just listen to the music what else is there to say BLEH

[@chrisbaker6317]

no mention of Corbyn. Their accent is very different also .

[@jamescole8274]

x

[@keefedonk]

Love the look of disgust on their face. The lass just doesn’t get it. Why should it be that they are representing the whole of the UKs working class? Why is it that their music has to be political and some sort of big message? Why can’t it be that they are just making music they want to make and saying what they are thinking? If I get smashed and start spouting my thoughts, does that mean Sleaford Mods have to listen to me? Let’s just enjoy the music for music sake. Pisses me off that it’s always got to have some sort of agenda.... I just wanna get wankered and listen to music that makes me happy.

[@darev6780]

the woman interviewing looks like she is chewing something that refuses to be swallowed

[@SuperChapple]

I've tried to like the Sleaford Mods, really tried but........... I suppose I'm here aren't I ?

[@nict3999]

the woman mk