Hailing from Grantham lamenting the capitalist society, while fully engaging in all that it has to offer.
Jason Williamson and fellow yellow-belly Andrew Fearn make-up, the duo that is, Sleaford Mods.
Ironically Grantham was also the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, Conservative British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 who brought about many of the changes that affect today's working classes.
Crushing the Miners strike and slowly eroding the power of the unions, taking away the united voice of the working classes. Sleaford Mods have resurrected that voice. Andrew Fearn often wears his signature "STILL HATE THATCHER" T-shirt on stage. As an antidote to Williamson’s staccato feet and twitching hand gestures, Fearn presses play on his computer, firing up instrumental backing tracks, beer in hand, splashing, sipping and nodding to his beats.
This duo don't see themselves as political warriors like Billy Bragg. However, Williamson managed to get himself suspended from the Labour Party for an obscene tweet about a Labour MP preventing him from voting in the recent Labour Party Leadership election.
Williamson joined the Labour Party because he wanted to support Jeremy Corbyn. Williamson says;
‘Ukip tap into that mindset of wanting to do away with the establishment. And that mindset has always been there, of small-town, redneck conservatism, but against the establishment. It’s the same in Grantham, where I grew up: people hated Thatcher there, but there are still rednecks; they hate outsiders.'
It might be ugly and brutal at times, but this is 21st century punk, it’s what people are talking about on the streets, in pubs and on sofas at night, unedited verbal rebellion.
Williamson has taken hold of this underbelly of frustration and spews it out to adoring audiences, but there remains an essential morality that runs throughout Sleaford Mods’ music, a reflexive siding with the oppressed.