Sleaford Mods start their first North American tour in five years later this week.
Sleaford Mods are streaming their Live At Nottz Arena EP from today, featuring six songs recorded during the duo’s appearance at Nottingham Arena in 2021.
Billy Nomates and Amyl And The Sniffers’ Amy Taylor reprise their roles from the Spare Ribs album – the former on Mork N Mindy and the latter on Nudge It which are included on the EP along with Discourse, Jolly Fucker, Don’t Go and Tied Up In Nottz.
Live4ever also caught Sleaford Mods live in 2021; the gig at Bristol’s O2 Academy summed up in our review as a, ‘ stark, brutal but beautiful noise (which) continues to defy everything and everyone’:
“What’s perhaps most remarkable about the hefty set is that while it’s largely variations of the same sound, little sounds similar. Shrewdly, those that do are sequenced next to one another; the shuffling Jolly Fucker follows the equally loose Face To Faces, for example. Yet by and large it’s bass-powered electro fare that requires controlled, disciplined movement rather than traditional dancing.”
“Which leaves Williamson to provide the spectacle, which he achieves in his own inimitable way. While constantly moving, he seems to be holding himself back from ‘performing’ (although there is some unashamed dad dancing), but his power comes through the largely monotone vocal delivery of the lyrics. The only concession to theatricality come from his frequent squawks, as random and apparently inconsequential as they are.”