Sleaford Mods - Engine Shed gig review
- Oct 20, 2017
- 2 min read
Who thought two middle aged men – one with a microphone, the other with a laptop and sipping beer from a bottle – could put on such a fascinating show? Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn hailing from Grantham, Lincolnshire, rocked the Engine Shed in their home county, with their aggressive vocals, loud beats and exquisite dance manoeuvres.
Vocalist Jason prowled around the stage and then erupted into the first verse of opening song ‘I Feel So Wrong’. Instantly, you could feel the passion from his voice and the connection it had to the audience. He swung the microphone stand to an angle and continued into the chorus where he would start shouting and screaming “I feel so wrong” over and over again.
Meanwhile to Jason’s side, stood Andrew. A man whose sole purpose on stage is to press a button on his laptop to start the music, and then to repeat that process at the end of each song. He would more or less stand in the same position, bopping his head to the beat and downing a beer.
It’s Jason, though, who enhances the chemistry between the duo and their fans. In between each song, he engages with the crowd, shouting “are you enjoying this?”. Then just before they burst into their final song ‘Tweet Tweet Tweet’, he confirmed Sleaford Mods would come back to Lincoln.
Old classics from the band like ‘TCR’ (Total Control Racing), ‘Jolly Fucker’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’ went down like a treat with the hardcore fans, especially the former. Nearly everyone sang back the lyrics “TCR, total control racing” to the top of their lungs, whilst bouncing up and down frantically.
However, they also performed new tracks from their recently new album ‘English Tapas’ released in March this year, including songs like ‘BHS’, ‘Army Nights’ and ‘Moptop’. ‘BHS’ is meaningful and hard-hitting when the audience sing back “We’re going down like BHS” in tune with the beat and the passionate Jason. It’s a song as you would expect, it mocks the ex-owner of the British department store Philip Green. That’s what Sleaford Mods do well – they explore current issues in society, including Brexit, and their fans feel their emotion and thoughts.
Sleaford Mods are one of the world’s leading electronic punk bands, and if this gig was anything to go by, their success will continue.
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