Sleaford Mods
Reviews 9
Articles 13
A Quietus Interview
Something Of Substance: An Interview With Billy Nomates
As she releases the first track 'Heels' - which you can listen to below - from a new EP, Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, speaks to Patrick Clarke about class barriers, the fragility of DIY musicianship, and the government's 'sinister' disregard for an industry on the edge of collapse
Things I Have Learned
The Great British Fuck Off: Sleaford Mods On Baking
When once he would cane it like there was no tomorrow, Jason Williamson now prefers to bake banana bread in the kitchen and lift weights in his garden. Here, the Sleaford Mods man runs JR Moores through the kind of baking advice you don't get from Mary Berry
A Quietus Interview
Real Talk: A Film About Sleaford Mods
With Divide And Exit, Sleaford Mods made one of our favourite albums of the year, an original, visceral portrait of the UK in 2014. In a short film, Louis Pattison meets the duo, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, in Nottingham to discuss their writing process, mod culture and being gobby
Baker’s Dozen Appearances 5
Baker's Dozen
Dancing & Defiance – A Soundtrack to 30 Years of Gay Culture
To mark the anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, Paul Flynn (author of Good as You: From Prejudice to Pride, 30 Years of Gay Britain) chooses 13 records that soundtracked his life, from ACR to Elton and Lil Kim to Sleaford Mods.
Baker's Dozen
Lifting A Veil: Kurt Wagner Of Lambchop’s Favourite British LPs
Reflecting at length upon his intimate relationship with British music from his office in Nashville, Tennessee, the alt-country veteran at the heart of Lambchop discusses freedom, interpretation and the lasting effect on him of 1970s Sheffield with Luke Cartledge
News 43
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A Quietus Interview
Calling Occupant Of Interplanetary Craft: Matias Aguayo Interviewed
Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music
Black Sky Thinking
How to Talk to your Son about Dangerous Extremist Influencers
With TV drama Adolescence and Andrew Tate currently in the news, author Craig Johnson asks how the toxic ideology extremist influencers became so widespread and offers practical advice to help young people affected. CW: Reference to sexual assault and violence against women. Contains mild spoilers for Adolescence. Stills courtesy of Netflix
Books
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
From Goethe to Novalis, nineteenth-century novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Gabrielle Sicam looks to recent books by Anika Jade Levy, Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Wambugu
