SLEAFORD MODS // BARROWLAND BALLROOM, GLASGOW
Sleaford Mods cook up a storm at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom
SLEAFORD MODS PERFORMING AT GLASGOW’S BARROWLAND BALLROOM - 27.10.2018
PICTURE BY: STEPHEN WILSON PHOTOGRAPHY
★★★★☆
Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods bring their live show to Glasgow’s iconic Barrowlands. Their style, classed as electronic punk for the working class combines a beat box type rhythm to vocalst Jason Williamson’s urban rap style lyrics, often about working class, British culture, politics and being a jobseeker!
Williamson, hailing from Lincolnshire, was a session musician and met colleague Andrew Fearne who was a DJ at a club in Nottingham, playing his own music. Williamson suggested they collaborate with Fearne’s music and his lyrics, combining the electronic beat with Williamson’s style, known as sprechgesang, a term for a crossover of singing and speaking, more related to the operatic style.
The 20 song set list went down well with the ever increasing crowd at the Barrowlands, favourites such as Subtraction, Giddy on the Ciggies, TCR, From Rags to Richards had the crowd bopping along. BHS raised a bigger cheer, a great tune. Dregs and Gallows Hill closed the first set before a short interval. Coming back on to Fizzy then crowd favourite Jobseeker, the band were on form and the audience were lapping it up.
A few more tunes, Tied Up In Nottz, Tarantula Deadly Cargo and Tweet Tweet Tweet closed the evening. Infectious music by Fearne, a kind of mellowed out drum and bass perhaps? Coupled with the fabulous words of Williamson, delivered with a style not unlike John Cooper Clarke or Shaun Ryder, and a hint of urban poetry a la Ian Dury and this was a great evening. Sleaford Mods are a band well worth seeing live.
SETLIST: | SLEAFORD MODS : BARROWLAND BALLROOM, GLASGOW - 27.10.2018
Flipside
Subtraction
Stick In A Five and Go
Moptop
Just Like We Do
Giddy on the Ciggies
TCR
Joke Shop
Bang someone out
From Rags to Richards
Routine Dean
Jolly Fucker
You’re Brave
BHS
Dregs
Gallows Hill
Fizzy
Jobseeker
Tied Up in Nottz
Tarantula Deadly Cargo
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