tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692671.post3717310439936558188..comments2024-01-20T17:51:18.354+00:00Comments on IDWAL FISHER: Sleaford Mods, JB Barrington, Ceramic HobsIdwal Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04846080267322310845noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692671.post-85768276310995219392015-05-18T17:18:47.338+01:002015-05-18T17:18:47.338+01:00Excellent and thoughtful points, Anonymous at 4.48...Excellent and thoughtful points, Anonymous at 4.48 - it's entertainment not revolution but such a relief to hear the sort of sentiments in songs like Jobseeker expressed openly, great to see tweets saying 'we want freedom not work'.<br /><br />As well as the laddish elements a fair proportion of appreciative women were at this show which was good to see - they may not be bawling away with fists in the air but certainly seem to get it.<br /><br />Strange, difficult and with luck transformative times are coming for the UK and this will include more civil disorder - for some Sleaford Mods may be a catalyst and soundtrack to this.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15594102513790109723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692671.post-32573193460340451132015-05-18T16:48:45.868+01:002015-05-18T16:48:45.868+01:00So the argument goes that through the intensity of...So the argument goes that through the intensity of the performance and the lyrics the Sleaford Mods channel the anger and impotent frustration felt by so many in Tory austerity Britain. In respect of these two emotions both on stage performances are key with the vituperative vocals offset by the laconic what the fuck laptop operation. <br /><br />Live it is undeniably something to behold but ultimately this is performance. Offstage as many comment they seem like surprisingly nice lads and just as well as who could keep up that degree of intensity 24/7.<br /><br />But performance and no frills authenticity are uneasy bedfellows unless mediated by awareness on the part of performer and audience that this is indeed just that, an act. Whilst SM are themselves open that they are staging a performance too many of the SM’s audience are like leary old lags at a strip joint forgetting that the onstage cavorting is anything other than simulated sensuosness that in a way this is a joke.<br /><br />Scope through twitter and you see lots of blokey assertions that SM are the “real thing” not fake like Oasis or Kasabian and the “best thing to happen to music” for years cutting through the manufactured pap pop served up by Cowell and crew. SM encourage this in interviews and by their winding up of the likes of Weller and Gallagher. All very amusing but when did anybody last take such bands seriously, when did anybody last take popular music that seriously? <br /><br />If SM makes you feel real, authentic and somehow putting one in the eye to Tory austerity well good luck with it....<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692671.post-55017344312032176202015-05-18T01:02:53.857+01:002015-05-18T01:02:53.857+01:00Well said. They make nearly all of everything else...Well said. They make nearly all of everything else about sound shite, and they're a pair of absolute gents. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03957240374454110946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6692671.post-51872456922770081832015-05-17T23:14:47.087+01:002015-05-17T23:14:47.087+01:00Bloody hell you nailed it! Been a fan for a while ...Bloody hell you nailed it! Been a fan for a while me and mi mates feel so strongly about the sleaford mods!they are just genuine and fucking angry a d so are we.I'm a cynical cuntwho has been made so by just watching how the world is unfolding.everyone bought and sold or just rubbished and destroyed. One thousand disappointments !!! We know the mods have had them to.difference is they have a clearer focus and way of expressing it.I guess its catharsis for all the things we feel and I a world where everything is either a pose or a stepping stone and people are confused and too self concious to do anything.the mods cut through it all even the way Andrew just presses a button and swayed along if you look at his face he feels every word and so do we.the honesty of just pressing play on the laptop is the essence why pretend you are playing the song when ur not! O fucking love em and we fucking need them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com