Showing posts with label Jason Williamson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jason Williamson. Show all posts

Sunday, December 03, 2017

Jason "Sleaford Mods" Williamson on the next royal wedding: "A rosy, Walt Disney-esque illusion as we sing along to the cries of these psychopaths."



Jason Williamson is the singer of Sleaford Mods, and as far as Andrew Fearn's t-shirt is concerned in this clip from earlier in the year, Louis CK hadn't yet been exposed.

Now, prepare for brutal honesty as Jason considers the British royal family in the context of current events.

Nottingham doesn’t need you, Harry, by Jason Williamson (The Guardian)

The royal couple’s visit was probably as far north as they dared go to publicise their already overhyped nuptials

Did the Windsors’ PR look at statistics for which area of the UK holds the highest number of bloodless cap doffers? Is Nottingham full of them? The doughy-eyed apologists.

Perhaps this was as far north as Harry and Meghan dared go. To be honest I’m surprised they made it past Luton. And for what? To re-announce an already heinously over-publicised wedding engagement that will extract millions from us when it hits its big day? I’m assuming the convoy of Range Rovers didn’t have to experience the growing number of homeless people who are slowly being exterminated by the subzero temperatures, helped along by the guiding hand of this eternal austerity.

Previously:

Sleaford Mods: "Our shows are a bit like resistance in motion."


"Sleaford Mods have taken charge of Britain after staging a coup against the government."

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Sleaford Mods: "Our shows are a bit like resistance in motion."



Brexshit: Also, view parts 1/3 and 2/3.

Henceforth, the duo known as Sleaford Mods has been a very British phenomenon. Since last year's Brexit referendum, the analysis has reached the continent.

The angriest (and most political) band in Britain

We’re in a situation now where I think people really need to take on a responsibility to learn, and to educate themselves. People need to feel angry about it; they should feel angry about it. In the poorer areas, there’s no education about politics. There’s no education about the system and how it works and what we need to do to survive.

As I write, Jason and Andrew are stateside for their first-ever American dates.

Sleaford Mods: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, by Sasha Frere-Jones (Stereogum)

... The healing here is in the act of throwing yourself into a hopeless vision, a spin on the “getting on with it” intrinsic to Britishness. This impulse could be borrowed. Before Americans can sort out how many different cohorts sold out how many other cohorts, they — we — can find a way to say “we fucked up” without giving up.

I'll be kicking myself in the arse for not going to Chicago on Monday.