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- [Announcer] Undoubtedly, absolutely, definitely,

the world's greatest rock and roll band,

Sleaford Mods.

Rock the (bleep) house. (bleeping)

(punk music) (cheering)

- In these documentaries, what are you supposed to say?

It's two guys stood on stage.

And it's pure.

And it's like, and you can't fuck with it.

♪ The smell of piss is so strong ♪

♪ It smells like decent bacon ♪

♪ Kevin's getting footloose on the overspill ♪

♪ Underneath the piss-station ♪

- They are the voice of Britain.

They tell what Britain is like at the moment.

♪ It's the Final Countdown ♪

♪ By fucking Journey ♪

♪ I woke up with shit in my sock ♪

♪ Outside the Polish off-licence ♪

- The minute I heard it, I thought, I was like,

fuckin' hell, that's it,

that's what I should have been doing.

After I left Crass, I should have done that.

Why didn't I think of it?

♪ Release the stench of shit grub ♪

♪ Like a giant toilet kraken ♪

♪ The lonely life that is touring ♪

♪ I got an armful of decent tunes to make mate ♪

♪ But it's all so fucking boring ♪

- You want a band to mean something.

It's alright, a band saying stuff.

But when a band means something

and you're watching them thinking,

fucking hell, they really fucking,

they mean what they're saying.

♪ Black t-shirts and state toss ♪

♪ Nobby's Nuts, the rule of Rough Cuts ♪

♪ A to Z of nothing gets all the shits ♪

♪ We are real ♪

♪ We are looking 20p in the 10p mix ♪

♪ Crab eyes ♪

♪ Another lonely little DJ with no fucking life ♪

♪ Weetabix, England ♪

♪ Fuckin' shredded wheat, Kellogg's cunts ♪

- They're a breath of fresh air

in a kind of stagnated and stale sort of industry.

Nobody is really talking the stuff they talk.

♪ It's beautiful how the privileged still let us in ♪

♪ Can I come in ♪

- In the deep caverns of small towns of England,

that's where great music exists.

♪ And then the dealer's tipped up ♪

♪ Tied up in Nottz, get it then ♪

- I think the music is fantastic.

I mean, it's a really hilarious distillation

of kind of simplified electronic music

but it has power and impact.

And also, Jason is just one of the great performers.

He is a kind of Shakespearean method actor or something.

He's got a whole repertoire of ticks,

and actions and movements.

- Shit!

- We've got screens and Jason's got a beer crate.

Great.

No hope for us.

♪ And then the dealer's tipped up, up, up ♪

- Something's got lost along the way.

And Sleaford Mods,

as soon as I heard them, did that.

They filled that gap that was just missing,

massively, for so long.

♪ Smash the windows now ♪

♪ Smash the fucking window ♪

(cheering and applause)

- It is a band that, on paper,

shouldn't really appeal to people.

But it does.

I don't think it's any of that zeitgeist politics bullshit

that a lot of media types seem to think it is.

I mean, there's probably an element of that.

Well, it's just a refreshing band,

and that's, it's as simple as that.

People always seem to think they're reinventing the wheel,

but nobody really does.

I think Sleafords have really come along

and come up with something that's a good formula.

You know, they're a band with old men.

So it's,

a lot of older people just understand it.

Neither of them are record collectors,

they don't really study music or whatever.

They just like what they like.

They're not, yeah, music nerds.

We're almost there.

Welcome to Sherwood.

This is nowhere near Sherwood Forest, by the way,

in case you're anticipating Robin Hood.

There you go, there's Elvis himself.

What's he wearing?

Elvis, what are you doing mate?

- How are you? - I'm alright.

You're on camera, mate. (both laughing)

- You alright? - Yeah, we're just showing

the sights of Sherwood. - Yes.

- Well you should park outside yours

and go to Wetherspoons.

- Yeah, sure. - Yeah?

You're going jogging, are you, going?

Taking your shoes for a walk?

- No, no, I'm just taking these for a resoling.

Missus has said, would you mind not filming this street?

Just in case any crazy fans get hold of it.

- Yeah, well, I was gonna suggest that, yeah.

- We already had a few weird bits of fan mail.

So she's a bit fucking

dubious about it. - Yeah, no worries mate.

(electronic squelching)

If we just do the first one, I can copy it as well but--

- Down, down.

(punk music)

(belching)

(punk music)

♪ Take it down ♪

♪ There's gonna be a war ♪

♪ Between the rich and poor ♪

♪ There's gonna be a scream ♪

♪ Every dirty human being ♪

♪ Every dirty human being ♪

♪ Every dirty human being, dirty human being ♪

The chorus, the verse, should come straight in.

You know like, dirty human being,

that stays on the chorus tune.

- Yeah. - Do you know what I mean?

And then just come in with the verse.

♪ Dirty human being ♪

♪ Every dirty human being, dirty human being ♪

♪ Madness in the YMCA ♪

- Yeah.

- Do you get what I'm saying?

- No, not really.

Say again?

- So that dirty human being stays on the chorus music.

- Yeah, see, see, okay, I get what you're saying.

- You know what I'm saying? - Yeah.

So, you're up one more bar there.

♪ Every dirty human being ♪

(humming)

♪ Every dirty human being, dirty human being ♪

♪ Madness in the ♪

Do you know what I mean? - Yeah, I can do, yeah okay.

- Try that.

- Thing blowing out any hot air at all?

Piece of shit.

That's a bit better.

De'Longhi.

(scatting)

What's the line, public hour sandglass?

♪ The brain in the hand ♪

♪ Public hour sandglass ♪

♪ Brain in the hand of the public demand ♪

- Is true? - Yeah, I'll just do that.

At the end. - Just I mean, okay.

♪ We had the school trip ♪

♪ And they used to say ♪

♪ This is what you do ♪

♪ When we kick you out, hey ♪

♪ This is what you do ♪

♪ Every fucker went yes ♪

♪ This ain't the kind of game ♪

♪ Where we all have to ♪

Oh bollocks!

♪ Brain in the hand ♪

♪ Of the public demand ♪

♪ Brain in the hand ♪

♪ Of the public demand ♪

Something like that, yeah?

- Yeah. - Try that, try that.

- Well some lines are just so funny.

It's just that classic spontaneous thing

that you have with friends or something.

It's the way he says things.

You know, he just makes me laugh.

And then at the same time,

some lines are really poignant

and really moving, you know,

really thoughtful and moving.

There's often a bit in it where

I just think that's awesome poetry.

I'm not really into a lot of poetry.

So yeah, I think it's the same as what

everyone else experiences in that sense.

You do get blown away by how he does it.

He's very good at it.

♪ And all that's through ♪

♪ The corridor of angst ♪

♪ From the public demand ♪

♪ The brain in the hand ♪

♪ Of the public demand ♪

♪ Brain in the hand ♪ - That's in it.

♪ Of the public demand ♪

♪ Brain in the hand ♪

♪ Of the public demand ♪

(punk music)

- What do you reckon? - Yeah.

That sounds really good.

♪ Silly employees in the sun near you ♪

♪ Keith Richards in a bunny costume ♪

♪ Vinnie Jones in a bunny costume ♪

♪ You cunt ♪

♪ There's gonna be a scream ♪

♪ Every dirty human being ♪

Have you seen this in Time Out?

Who the hell do Sleaford Mods think they are?

(laughing)

We are gonna get beat up aren't we?

- Fucking end days, isn't it? - I know.

♪ Vinnie speaks your tit in the sun ♪

That's just class, that is.

♪ Silly employees in the sun near you ♪

♪ Keith Richards in a bunny costume ♪

- You must be scared to go out, mate.

- Yeah, I'm alright.

I sometimes think oh I wish I was you.

Shouldn't have opened me mouth.

Missus is like the thing is,

you don't know when to shut up.

(both laughing)

- I think we both suit each other.

There's not a lot of people

that work with either of us, in a way.

Jason because of his content.

And me, musically, I'm too spiky.

I've always been a bit of a black sheep in my family

and I've always not done things

the way that people should do them.

And I think Jason's done the same thing.

That's where we are quite similar.

We both felt like we've not fit in anywhere.

(barking) (punk music)

♪ The corgi, the palace gets it right ♪

♪ The corgi, it's always warm at night ♪

♪ The corgi, the driveway and the range ♪

♪ The corgi, well, well, well, piss off ♪

(cheering and applause)

- Honestly?

He's been a total wanker all his life.

He's been a total drop-out all his life.

There was no way he was ever gonna end up where he is.

- How can I describe this?

Jason didn't really care that much, I think

about his life.

I think it's probably the best way to maybe word it.

I don't know.

It was always a spiral upon spiral

of he just wasn't really that bothered.

It was just making music and working in shit jobs

and just existing really, on a level.

- I've worked at this chicken factory

about 15 years ago, and it was alright.

I spent like 18 months there.

It wasn't too bad.

But I went back two years ago

and it was fucking horrible.

It was like ...

It was like something fucking Dante

had written or something.

Just putting chicken in boxes.

- Sounds grim. - But it was horrible, yeah.

That was probably the worst time.

- To be fair, I always thought that he was gonna be

one of those people that,

'cause we have known each other for a long long time.

I always thought he was gonna be one of those people

who'd disappear off the radar

and then you'd hear that they were just

you know, dead.

- I started writing in the evenings after work.

Big long essays, if you like.

Monologues, just about my life at the time

and what I was seeing and thinking.

Which wasn't a lot.

Just to the shop and back

to get some cigarettes and beer.

But I managed to dress that up in a way that was,

as I was writing it, I'd be laughing,

and I'd also be getting stuff out that was on my mind,

hang-ups about people,

and just slagging people off.

It's a way of beating people up

without actually hitting them.

♪ Grief curlywurl ♪

♪ Grief, grief curlywurl ♪

♪ Grief curlywurly ♪

♪ I eat my dinner on the bus ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm sick of people asking me what I got ♪

♪ What is that ♪

♪ Fuck off back to your own desk ♪

♪ You weird twat ♪

♪ Bang the arsenal, arrange the guns ♪

♪ I can't hear anything, I'm deaf ♪

♪ That ain't a bass treble ♪

♪ It's just a fucking clef ♪

♪ We deep down dirty ♪

♪ Whilst the system glorifies dappy ♪

♪ Then hangs him in front of a public that grew angry ♪

♪ Me, public ♪

♪ We bring them up, we take them down ♪

♪ Don't ever sell your ass ♪

♪ For a fucking cricket ground ♪

- Well, funnily enough,

the first time I heard a Sleaford Mods track, if you like,

was when he was,

'cause when he did the early recordings,

he was in the same building as our studio.

The guy he was using to help record him,

Simon, I think it was,

had a studio downstairs from where ours was.

And I was in there making a cup of tea.

And I could hear, I thought, I'm sure that's Jason.

I thought he was having an argument with someone,

'cause I hear, you fucker! (growling)

By that, I was thinking Jesus, who is he talking to?

♪ Excuse me mate ♪

♪ Could you pass us that ashtray ♪

- By the time of, well pretty much all of the recordings,

by the time he was ready to record,

we were all pretty drunk anyway.

It was just like plug it in.

And I was like, that's cool.

- Do what you want. - Just do whatever.

Then we'd turn it up full blast

and he'd be like, play it again, play it again.

And afterwards, we'd just hear it over and over.

Then I'd take it home and have a think.

Is that ...

What is it, what's going on?

(laughing)

- He's fallen out with a lot of people.

Because A, through being a cunt,

and basically, B, just telling them what he thinks.

Not a lot of, you know, people don't like that.

He holds a mirror up to,

first I think himself with the early stuff,

and now he's holding it up to everyone else.

And I think a lot of what he says

is bang on, you know.

- Young people signing major deals with big companies,

and they're just singing about,

they're just singing about love and just,

you know, I'm a great believer of love,

but for fuck's sake.

There's a lot going on. - It's been done.

Listen to Barry Manilow. - It's been done to death.

Who wants to hear that

if you're on 15 pound a week

and you turn the telly on

and some fucker's spouting on about love,

with a guitar in the middle of a forest.

I mean that's just shit.

It's not particularly pretty what we sing about.

And a lot of the time, it's not very nice.

But it's just the way it is, isn't it?

- It's so amazing to see where he's actually got

and see who he's become.

'Cause he's always been this absolutely glorious person.

He's always been wonderful.

And he's always been really kind.

- I'll tell you a little story.

When it was me birthday back in May,

he gave me his Tiswas album.

And he wrote on it,

here you are, Dad, here's a present for you.

Many happy returns of the day,

it's only took me 25 years to fucking get here.

And that was it, and that was, said it all to me.

How's that?

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

♪ Shit, and then the dealers tipped up ♪

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

♪ Shit, and then the dealers tipped up ♪

- This is where we filmed the, let's start again.

This is the exotic location

where we filmed the Tied Up In Nottz video

one Sunday morning many moons ago.

As you can see, it's really glamorous and exotic.

Welcome to Gedling.

Not a lot to see, really.

It's so boring and mediocre.

There's absolutely no feature to it, basically.

It's just monotonous, boring.

Kind of like Sleaford's music, I would think.

- There you are mate. - How are you?

- Keep me out of the film, mate. (mumbles)

I was just driving the bus through Nottingham.

They got on the bus, went upstairs, made the video.

I left the bus at the terminus for a bit.

I disappeared to the shop, came back,

drove the bus back to the city,

all within the specified timetable pretty much.

- [Jason] Is he stopping here?

- [Steve] I'm going back to town the same way

and coming back here in another 10 minutes or so.

- Right, okay.

(laughing)

Shit!

- When I was at work I just had to like pull the bus up,

jump off, make a quick phone call.

You can see, people were thinking like,

what's that fucking driver doing?

Like, you know, what he shouldn't be doing, basically.

I just was so frustrated,

I couldn't deal with what I had to deal with.

I just thought I'd get better money

doing the Sleafords thing.

It was a weird feeling, you know.

I've not walked out of a job for about 20 years.

So yeah, basically I just

drove back to the city, got off the bus,

gave it to somebody else,

and walked down to the depot

and said, can I see the boss?

And quit, simple as that.

- Anyway, nice seeing you, mate.

Nice to know you. - You take care, buddy.

(all talking at once)

- May the music never stop.

- [Steven] I wish it would. (laughing)

- I'll see you later. - See you mate, cheers.

On the back of like quitting work and stuff,

it's just really sort of catching up with me.

For them, it's been a shock as well.

It's just so much has happened.

They've got to deal with it and come to terms with it all.

Now we're all full time, it's finding a level.

But I think the next album is really gonna

just up things a notch.

It's gonna be a lot more interesting.

But also a lot busier.

We'll see if we can cope with it.

Should be alright.

Goodwill.

Not Family First?

- That's shut, isn't it? - Yeah, yeah.

I don't think I've ever been here,

to be honest with you man.

- Never been here? - No, no.

- Can't get in, we have to go home.

- Elvis, how you doing man? - Alright, you?

- [Steve] (mumbles) the door.

How you doing, man?

- Alright, you? - Yeah.

- Shall we listen to the first side

and play it all the way through?

- Yeah. - Yeah?

Is that alright? - Yeah.

(people chattering) - I love this.

- Well this could be the start of the B-side.

- [Steve] It could.

It's such a strong track, isn't it?

- Lads on the piss.

That just fucking--

- It pulls in, doesn't it? - Yeah it does.

- That pulls in really well, yeah.

- That's fucking brilliant, man.

- Yeah, let's try the end of it.

- Whoo hoo!

Come on, come on!

♪ I'll take it down, I'll take it down ♪

I know, it's so crap, isn't it?

♪ Down ♪

- Down town?

- Down town, going into town!

- That's what we should call the album Down Town.

- Down Town, that could work.

Down Town. - Sleaford Mods go down town.

- It's not a bad album title, Down Town, is it?

- Not bad, not bad. - My old man,

anytime anybody used to call up for me,

on one end, he'd be like, he's gone into town, mate.

He's in town, mate.

♪ Bronx in six ♪

- What's that alarm sound from?

- There was an alarm was going off across the road

from his house. - Outside my house.

All the time, there's alarms,

all the time when I lived there.

- All night, and I thought hold on a minute,

that sounds alright.

So I went out to the back yard and put it up like that.

Brilliant, isn't it?

- Yeah, perfect.

- Put your name above it? - Yeah, it's wicked.

Yeah. - You happy with it?

- Absolutely.

I mean, I like all these new tunes.

- Yeah yeah, yeah.

- When I've listened to it, I've just played,

loaded it in the folder and listened to it all.

And then put it on again. (mumbling)

- Yeah, yeah.

- 'Cause it's so varied and, you know,

makes it really easy to listen to.

- Yeah.

(punk music)

Have a bit of practice. (mumbling)

Can't do it right.

Handle.

(punk music)

- By one, mate yeah? - I'll be there at one.

- Yeah okay, what club mate?

- I might look out for you.

- I'll be on the coffee shop at the back.

- Thank you. - Yeah.

- [Woman] See you tomorrow.

- I'll see you later, guys, have a save trip out.

I'll see you tomorrow. - Yeah, see you tomorrow.

- Do us all tonight. - Okay, wicked.

See you. - See you, bye.

- Jesus, wow. - Whew.

- Sorry about the room at the moment.

It's sort of (mumbling).

It's uh ...

No, not as agile as I used to be.

♪ I'm shit at it ♪

♪ Can't work for no-one telling me what to do ♪

♪ I'm shit at it ♪

♪ Can't work for me self I'm shit at it ♪

♪ Can't even work in a chippy ♪

♪ Chips, peas and gravy ♪

- The label was always a hobby.

Never have been a business.

It's only, oh last year now, that it became official.

I'm sure if the taxman is watching this

he would like to have a word with me.

But I ain't got any money, mate, sorry, ha ha.

♪ How do you like your bacon doing ♪

♪ I'm shit at it ♪

- I've always considered it a punk label.

So, even it's all punk to me.

I don't give a fuck, at's all punk.

Whether it's avant garde

or some guy making loops, yeah,

as long as it's not some crappy guitar band.

I didn't put the first record didn't come out 'til 1994

for a series of errors

and balls-up and naivety,

youthful enthusiasm and whatever.

Yeah, so there's, ah there's been over like,

120 records and stuff, CDs.

Obviously, Sleafords is the big seller.

And, that's an original one actually,

but without the lyrics sheet.

See, the original one's got a darker cover.

Lacking all the credits on the back.

It came with a ridiculous ...

That was the lyrics sheet

for the first album.

I think the point they're at now,

I think they're, I think they're untouchable.

You know, there's really not a band,

for want of a better word, that's anything like them.

They don't pretend to be rock and roll wild men,

or cool, or studied, or anything.

Just get up on stage

and make arses of themselves and have a good time.

I think everybody appreciates that.

You guys go wait, wait around the corner,

Tenant Street, and I'll bring the car straight down.

- This might be fat though.

You know, I'm coming down the front.

- I'm coming down, yeah.

- Brilliant. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Brilliant. - Yeah.

- They're all like, there was like a mosh pit behind them.

They were like, no I'm just staying here.

It's probably go in the back.

(upbeat punk music)

- Where's your bastard bounty?

♪ A big dream ♪

♪ A big dream ♪

♪ I've seen a big dream ♪

♪ Dream it lot ♪

♪ I dreamt that I laughed and I clocked off ♪

♪ I let the door slide ♪

♪ I glide it back ♪

♪ I've got a boss melt and a faggoty sack ♪

♪ It's all about the treasure ♪

♪ Sinking ship ♪

♪ Spanish doubloons I'm gonna splash out quick ♪

♪ The seas are high ♪

♪ You lot are fucking dry ♪

♪ Swashbuckle tangle and bang it ♪

♪ A big dream ♪

We all know this fucking song.

Even if you don't fucking know it.

We all know this fucking song.

(crowd chattering)

Fuck all!

(punk music)

- Whoo! - Alright!

♪ 19.4 top ♪

Calm down there, mate.

♪ 18.4 mate middle ♪

Rob?

♪ 19.2 top ♪

♪ 18.4 mate middle ♪

♪ Jobseeker ♪

♪ Can of Strongbow I'm a mess ♪

♪ Desperately clutching onto a leaflet on depression ♪

♪ Supplied to me by the NHS ♪

♪ It's anyone's guess how I got here ♪

♪ Anyone's guess how I'll go ♪

♪ I suck on a roll up pull your jeans up ♪

♪ Fuck off I'm going home ♪

♪ Jobseeker ♪

♪ Jobseeker ♪

♪ So Mr. Williamson ♪

♪ What have you done in order to find ♪

♪ Gainful employment ♪

♪ Since your last signing on date ♪

♪ Fuck all ♪

♪ I just sat around the house wanking ♪

♪ And I want to know why you don't serve coffee here ♪

♪ My signing on time is supposed to be 10 past 11 ♪

- Anybody want anything?

- No, I'm alright. - I think I'm fine, thank you.

♪ The machine don't blink ♪

♪ Ticketless sheep ♪

♪ Blah blah crack sheep ♪

♪ Have you any rock what ♪

♪ EDL twat Tommy used to work on the dock ♪

♪ Union went all white he fuckin' loved it ♪

♪ Take it down there ♪

♪ We'll take it down there ♪

♪ We'll camouflage Humpty Dumpty crusades ♪

♪ Blood's on the hands of working class rage ♪

♪ Jolly fucker, jolly fucker ♪

♪ Jolly fucker ♪

♪ Mr. Jolly Fucker ♪

You could really see,

it was a kind of release for people last night.

And the night before, you know.

They really wanted a release.

They've got no voice.

You know, I'm saying that we're the voice,

but we're certainly heading that way.

We certainly, they can certainly relate to us.

And we can relate to them, you know,

'cause we're the same.

We just work, come home and that's it.

You know what I mean?

- We've all got certain music we relate to more.

It feels like it's for you, you know,

like it's been written with you in mind, you know.

That's the most amazing that we did that.

'Cause I didn't realize that we were doing that

when we were writing Austerity.

We didn't realize that we would connect

with people so much, all kinds of people.

(cheering)

I don't know, there seem to be two kinds of gigs.

It's like, one is where it's a really receptive audience,

and one is, you can almost hear a pin drop in the gaps.

You know, everyone's really listening.

And you don't realize 'til the end of the gig

that they were really into it.

And then there is just the nuts crowds.

They're just trying to offer you booze and cigarettes

all the way through the gig, you know?

It's nice though, isn't it?

- Is it high enough? - It's great, yeah.

- I can find taller ones. - No it's fine.

Does the stage vibrate? - Yeah, it will.

- Every gig I ask myself that, is it gonna work?

Is that experience gonna happen?

Are people gonna go, ah this is shit.

Sometimes when people are really loving it,

I'm thinking really?

I can't quite believe it, you know, amazing.

Yeah, that's solid.

- [Man] Would you like any like,

black cloth or anything for it?

- Nah, that's what I'm saying. - The crappier the better.

- Too pretentious. (laughing)

- It looks like you care. - It looks like,

it looks like a magic show.

I don't like it.

♪ Da da da da da da ♪

Or, something like that.

♪ Da da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Da da da da da da da da ♪

♪ Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah ♪ ♪ Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ♪ ♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪ ♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪ ♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

♪ Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ♪

- [Man] You're tied up in Nottz!

(laughing)

Good to see you!

(laughs)

(blows raspberry)

♪ The cunt with the gut and the Buzz Lightyear haircut ♪

♪ Callin' all the workers plebs ♪

♪ You better think about the future ♪

♪ You better think about your neck ♪

♪ You better think about the shit hairdo you got mate ♪

♪ I work my dreams off for two bits of ravioli ♪

♪ And a warm bottle of Smirnoff ♪

♪ Under a manager that doesn't have a fuckin' clue ♪

♪ Do you want me to tell you what I think about you cunt ♪

♪ I don't think that's a very good idea ♪

♪ Do you, you pock marked four eyed shit fitted shirt ♪

♪ White Converse with a taste for young girls ♪

♪ Don't send me home with a glint in my eye ♪

♪ I told my family about the fuckin' wage rise ♪

♪ And got fucked on ♪

♪ Devoured puked on and sucked up you fuckin' fly ♪

♪ The suction on your fly feet ♪

♪ It kept me pinned to the blinds ♪

♪ Whilst your PA rattled out emails ♪

♪ Workstations ♪

♪ Forced to engage in flirtatious conversation ♪

♪ Fizzy ♪

♪ Fizzy ♪

- It's got a political stance

in the way that they talk about politics.

Not so much politics, but I mean

they talk about jobs, like in Fizzy.

They talk about managers shitting on you.

I've had that all my life,

working in jobs and being threatened by getting the sack.

That talks to me directly,

that's why it's my favorite song.

♪ Fizzy boo ♪

- Hey man, lucky filled out.

(people chattering)

♪ Well sack the manager sack the manager ♪

♪ Sack the manager sack the manager ♪

♪ Sack the sack the fucking manager ♪

- This is the summer of '76.

Fucking Sleaford Mods, you dickhead, come on!

- I'm like 54 years old

and it's like absolutely the best gig

I've been to since I saw the Sex Pistols in 1977,

and I am buzzing, buzzing off this, totally buzzing.

- When you come and see Sleaford Mods, it is catharsis.

It's all the things that, at work and in daily life,

you have to push down.

Suddenly, he's a fella up there,

just annunciating them all, and it, it, it's just ...

Ah, you know, it's a pleasure to see that.

- We love 'em, we love 'em, we love 'em!

- I was addicted! - Sleaford Mods!

- I fucking stink man, I'm sorry sir.

- It's alright, it's just literally, it's just beer fumes.

- Yeah, yeah. - You don't smell of BO.

BO or just ...

- [Steve] Had a lovely shower yesterday.

- Don't light a match.

(laughing)

- The fucking jail, that's how I stink.

I've only had one pint this morning.

He's had about three. - You can tell.

(laughing)

I've bitten off more than I can chew

with this fucking voice of the people tag

they keep fucking giving us.

- Yeah, do you really? - Yeah, fuck yeah.

They can stop that bollocks.

(crowd chattering)

♪ Argh ♪

♪ A psychic a psychic a psychic ♪

♪ Well, pat it down mate pat it down mate ♪

♪ I'll take it I'll take it a fucking psychic ♪

- Especially in our culture, the class culture, man.

We've got things like, you know, the Tory government,

especially in towns like here now, huh.

We're totally being oppressed, man.

And the things is like,

the country is almost like compared just to London,

where everything's like sweet and everything else.

But we're totally missing the whole lot, man.

There's jobs, man, people with zero-hour work

up in this country, man.

And people like him, just make you feel like,

like Jason and Andrew, man,

they make you feel like you know,

there's someone's speaking for you.

You know what I mean?

♪ Five-day bender ♪

♪ Bender bender bender ♪

♪ Bender bender ♪

Scunthorpe, very honored, thank you.

(crowd screaming)

- Me and him were born in 1993 and 1994.

So, when people have said that they've been born

with the Sex Pistols and all of that,

it pisses us off, innit, it proper pisses us off.

- Yeah, we've got them all free coming.

- We've had nothing, so it's power to the people.

It's music for the people, that's what we love.

That's all we want, that's all we want from a band.

(people chattering)

- One.

(suspenseful music)

- The one place where the most incendiary of views

can still break through is music.

Be warned, there'll be some very strong language

in the next film.

Now, two 40 something men from Nottingham

are the latest to make music that rails against the system,

Sleaford Mods.

(punk music)

♪ Pop round Matt I'll give you a fiver ♪

- [Reporter] Andrew makes the music

and Jason until recently a benefits adviser,

delivers blistering lyrics about dead-end jobs,

late nights, and the feeling that you're slipping

through the cracks of society.

♪ The Land That Time Forgot is on repeat ♪

♪ I can hear the screams of people who wanna be me ♪

- It was a bit difficult to watch this

in the van last night, driving back.

♪ What do I do ♪

♪ I tell my daughter it's not true ♪

- I mean, Jason and Andrew and myself,

and anybody else that's connected,

we're all very, very different people,

very different people.

And, I think we've all got our own ways of dealing with it.

So, there's nobody involved that's hungry

for fame or anything, you know.

It's not an important thing.

We've got families and other things going on.

So, not a bunch of naive 25 year olds

wanting to rock the world.

- [Jason] What did you do?

- Can I have a babychino? - Yeah you can, babe, yeah.

Do you want a drink, Barb?

- I'm alright. - Who is that one for?

- This is for me.

And it's totally awful.

There's gonna be parts of this year

where it's gonna be cool.

We'll all be out of the house for up to two weeks,

But generally, you know, it's just something

that we've accepted is gonna happen.

But I am a lot, I'm at home more.

You know, so I've got to know my daughter more

because of it, you know?

And obviously it's a help around the house as well.

So, it's kinda good when I go away.

It's good for us, because time apart is good.

You're in each other's hair all the time.

(melancholy music)

- Of all peoples, the Germans!

The Germans, that they like your music so much.

Must have been crazy!

(dulcimer music)

(punk music)

♪ The smell of piss is so strong ♪

♪ It smells like decent bacon ♪

♪ Kevin's getting footloose on the overspill ♪

♪ Under the piss station ♪

♪ Two pints destroyer on the cobbled floors ♪

♪ No amount of whatever is gonna chirp the chip up ♪

♪ It's The Final Countdown by fuckin' Journey ♪

♪ I woke up with shit in my sock ♪

♪ Outside the Polish off license ♪

♪ They don't mind ♪

♪ Said the arsehole to the legs ♪

♪ You gotta be cruel to be kind shit bank ♪

♪ I saved me hope like Norbert Colon ♪

♪ Release the stench of shit grub ♪

♪ Like a giant toilet kraken ♪

♪ The lonely life that he's touring ♪

♪ I've got an armful of decent tunes to make mate ♪

♪ But it's all so fuckin' boring ♪

♪ It's boring it's boring ♪

♪ It's boring it's boring ♪

♪ It's all a lot of bollocks ♪

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

I was a little bit miffed

as to why people in Europe were getting it,

but once you get over the language barrier a bit,

you get into the idea of why you know people,

it is such an angry music

because of the working out, the 39 hour week.

(speaking in foreign language)

(punk music)

♪ Tied up in Nottz, get it down ♪

(speaking in foreign language)

- Yeah, dirty, badass, working class English.

♪ Up, up, up, up, up, up ♪

- Jason is the new fucking Jello Biafra.

♪ Big up the riots ♪

- You do wonder, is it one thing that did it?

Is it Jason's funny face?

Or is it as credible as people think it is?

(cheering and applause)

- I watched that front row of people who were German,

who talk in German and understand German,

yet they're singing Jason's lyrics

as if it's their own.

Do you get what I mean?

And that's it for me.

(bubbly music and radio static)

- There's nothing, there's no interference.

It's just a solid unit, just the three of us,

you know what I mean?

With a little help from a couple of friends

regarding percussion and all that.

But basically no, it's just the same unit pelting it out.

You know what I mean?

There's been no major overhaul.

We've had no industry

you know, sort of hand in there.

Just done what we normally do, you know.

And I think that's how bands should be.

They should be organic like that.

(bubbly music and radio static)

I might get an ice cream.

Hiya.

- What is your band called? - It's called Sleaford Mods.

- I see a lot of cameras over there.

- [Jason] Parf!

- Parf! - Parf.

- Okay. - Yeah?

- [Andrew] Yeah.

(people chattering and wind blowing)

- Where do you wanna go?

- Yeah, that's pretty good. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, I like that. - Yeah, that's good.

- Shooting?

- The soundman? (laughing)

- The soundgirl? - Powering on.

- Don't mind us.

(punk music)

♪ Alien mum dropping lethal cargo on the ship ♪

♪ Tarantula deadly cargo, it's bent it ♪

♪ Alien dad dropping lethal cargo on the ship ♪

♪ Tarantula deadly cargo, it's bent it ♪

(people chattering)

- Got all the takes, probably. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a shame that people don't give a shit

about the charts anymore, do they, you know?

So, oh yeah, we're at number 10.

Who gives a fuck?

Nobody cares.

But you know, it'd be good, it'd be great for us.

There isn't many bands in the top 20 album charts

that have got anything.

There isn't a lot.

There's probably one or two that are vaguely alright.

The rest are shit.

So it'd be really good for a band like us to get in there.

Do you know what I mean?

(people chattering)

- [Andrew] Yeah, I thought it would be a bit too long, yeah.

(punk music)

That's something that really drives me to wanna do it,

the fact that it's scraping the mainstream a little bit.

And being able to have all those,

not have to change any of the words and stuff.

Something that I wouldn't imagine would have happened.

It makes me think, maybe it won't go any further,

maybe we won't get any bigger than we are now.

Who knows?

♪ It's gonna drag you down to key markets ♪

♪ And shoot you all in the car park ♪

♪ Key markets where's the key ♪

♪ It's calling me courtesy counter ♪

♪ And bleak me ♪

♪ Green coat and isles of nothing ♪

♪ I got the sack ♪

♪ I thought, fuck me, didn't do nothing obviously ♪

♪ Fire engine stations bluffing ♪

It's my job now.

It's where I get my money.

So, it'd be interesting to see how it develops

and carries on,

and it'd be interesting to see if we can still maintain

the level of interest that we've got at the minute.

But we're there now, we've accomplished it,

we'll be remembered as a good band, you know,

providing we don't turn into idiots.

- Golfing today sir, are you?

(people chattering and laughing)

- It's just soul destroying.

It's like ...

It's like ...

It's just not right, you know.

It's just not right.

They wanna give us Album of the Week.

But then they want to change the Album of the Week

into a different album by editing it.

And then give us Album of the Week

for this other album that no one gets to even hear.

- That doesn't even sound right.

- It doesn't make any sense.

- Basically the story is,

they wanna make it Album of the Week, is it BBC One?

Sort of, all the main stations and shit, daytime radio.

And they asked for us to supply an entire album.

12 tracks of

cleaned-up material.

That's pretty difficult.

It's a really fucking tough one.

- Fuck the UK!

Fuck them, we don't fucking need them.

They're on their fucking knees anyway.

We should turn round and say fuck you!

If you want this,

and you need this, by the way,

you fucking need this, you've got nothing.

You've got gravy.

There's not even any bits of onion left in it.

It's an education system to let everybody know

that swearing is just another word

like anything else.

It explains what swearing is for

and how to use it correctly

instead of saying pass the fucking salt or whatever.

- So I don't see why we should compromise

a fucking great album.

- No. - For the sake of airplay.

- Maybe the answer is we don't want it.

We don't want Album of the Week from them.

It's only Album of the Week.

- It's Album of the Day.

- Album of the Day?

Even worse!

Pointless.

24 hours, thanks!

(punk music) (people chattering)

Hippy wankers, get a job!

♪ Music for the masses ♪

♪ I'm outclassed here mate ♪

♪ In between the 'tashes ♪

♪ And splash out on shit ♪ - Got my festival jacket on.

♪ I'd better get a penny farthing ♪

♪ And Marvelous Marvin ♪

- Where is the John Peel artists' area?

- Right, okay.

You need to go to gate A, which is down here.

- Bit of a fucking joke, isn't it!

Artist accreditation is there.

Yeah? - Yeah.

- [Woman] Down there and on the left.

But you get your wristband

when you actually get to your base.

- Staff, workers ...

- [Blonde Woman] It's that one there.

- [Steve] Where is the other Stage?

- [Steward Advisor] The John Peel Stage is over there.

- How do we get to the artist accreditation area?

No, not yet, no.

We're walking towards the tent now.

They parked us on the wrong fucking side of the thing,

but that don't matter.

Yeah, just head to the John Peel Stage.

It's down there somewhere, man.

We'll catch you there, yeah?

Alright mate, you're there.

This is a big waste of my time.

(people chattering)

I fucking hate festivals, man.

Basically it's John Peel Stage.

So you want pedestrian entrance A.

There are portacabins behind the back,

and we've got one of those and we're in there.

Yeah?

See you in a bit.

They've been fucked about with the car park.

They moved them from one car park to another.

He's a bit angry.

He's like, I've been here 15 minutes,

I can't stand the fucking place one more minute.

- Yup.

Tiswas. - Tiswas.

- Fizzy. - Fizzy.

- Tied Up In Nottz.

- But where are you gonna pull,

where are you gonna drop ...

Before Tarantula?

Four Horsemen, Tarantula,

Tied Up In Nottz, Jobseeker.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- And then it's just who's gonna go on stage

and what they play.

- Those are just positions on stage.

- Yep.

Unless you've got any dancers or anything, which I doubt.

- [Steve] Yeah, we need some dancers, man.

- I'm the fucking dancer. - Yeah.

You're the man with the moves, aren't you?

- Last night watching Glastonbury

and the way it's being filmed

and we watched something

that was on the John Peel Stage, and I'm like fuck!

That's what it's gonna look like?

We are gonna look like such pair of cunts.

But the fact that people like that is amazing, you know?

- Alright? - Alright.

- Alright?

- It's really warm in here. - It's boiling.

- Yeah. - Where's the toilets?

- Dunno, haven't had time to look for that one.

There's gotta be one somewhere.

- (mumbling) the door open?

- Absolutely. - Good idea, that.

(people chattering)

- Sleaford Mods, anyone?

- On the way up. - Yeah, brilliant.

- Come on then, let's go.

(muffled music and people chattering)

- I don't know why I'm so nervous.

- I know. - Yeah exactly.

- It's just this fucking steam room.

- (mumbling) Not even nervous, really, it's just ...

They've gotta be sweating in there.

Let's do it.

(crowd cheering)

- Alright? (crowd cheering)

Alright? (crowd cheering)

Alright! (crowd cheering)

(punk music)

Fuck off Glastonbury!

(heavy breathing)

(people chattering)

- [Man] I was gonna ask if I ...

(people chattering and laughing)

- Did you enjoy the support band?

(laughing)

Who was it, Take That?

- [Andrew] What's happening with Smithy?

- I don't know anything about that.

- [Andrew] Someone in the crowd

wants to give me a beer.

- Yeah, sure, yeah yeah.

(laughing)

You can get one.

Like a Pharaoh.

(laughing)

- Just crazy. - Yeah.

- How the fuck has it got to this?

(laughing)

I mean, we're not even a decent

avant-garde band, are we?

- You can't even pull that card.

- No!

- Can'T pull the academic avant-garde card.

- No.

Take me shoes off for 10.

- [Steve] Let's keep the door open.

(laughing and people chattering)

(girl mumbling)

- Because I'm so hot, babe.

Did you see me on telly?

- No, it went off.

- I did, did you see me on TV?

- I did, but I ate two sweeties.

- Did you? - Yeah.

- Two? - Yeah.

(people chattering)

- [Andrew] The first track was a bit--

(people chattering)

- You're alright?

- [Claire] Yeah, I should probably go--

- Where are you going?

- Well, she just ran that way.

I should probably go and get her.

I'm a bit like, no, you sit down. (mumbling)

- Are you sure?

- [Claire] Yeah, I'll bet (mumbling) five minutes.

(mumbling) - Alright.

I didn't enjoy it. - You didn't enjoy it?

- No, but it did us wonders.

I didn't enjoy it at all,

but it did us fucking wonders, didn't it?

- Why did you not enjoy it? - I just didn't.

I wasn't drinking all day.

I like a drink after the gig.

And I wasn't, and ...

But that doesn't matter.

You know, the next day I got up and I felt alright.

I went to bed that night sober.

And I felt fine.

We had this little B&B in Glastonbury Village.

And I thought, well yeah, that wasn't too bad actually.

And then we got up the next day and then it was,

we were all over the place with it, weren't we?

We did really well with it.

- Glastonbury, I think we'd all say

that actually that was a point

where it was like alright, okay.

I think especially off the back,

when it went on the iPlayer.

It was like, something like

the fourth most-watched Glastonbury set.

It was like alright then!

- I think for Sleafords, it was a pivotal performance.

It really, without sounding like a wanker,

it increased the profile.

Even on the same night or the day after,

I was getting these webshop notifications,

people buying LPs and CDs.

I was like fucking hell!

It was pretty, pretty quick.

- [Announcer] And now (imitating drum roll)

I wanna play something called Live Tonight.

It's from Sleaford Mods.

It's a cracker track.

It's from their new album Key Markets.

- [Crowd] Sleaford Mods, Sleaford Mods, Sleaford Mods!

- The album of the year has been released today.

That's better.

I look a bit younger there.

The album of the year has been released today.

- What are you doing? - I'm filming.

Christine's documentary, she's asked me to.

So it's not even nine,

so we're not gonna find out what's happening.

But ...

Get in!

- [Claire] Do you really want to do

the (mumbling) in flight?

(punk music)

♪ You cunt make it up ♪

♪ Select deep roads channeled, diced gems but code ♪

♪ What do you buy a ticket for you twat ♪

♪ You tried to make a point out of what, you sack ♪

♪ I saw ya fucking shit singer ♪

♪ Trying to look like he was studying the band's dinner ♪

- I mean, I haven't followed

the pop charts since 1981 or something.

But ...

Even though I say that I don't care,

there's a bit of me that's really proud

of what Jason, Andrew, myself have achieved without,

as far as like, an independent label, independent band,

that's totally away from regular music business, business.

You know, I guess stuck between

Lionel Richie and Taylor Swift in the pop charts.

- I don't really have much of an idea of what is big.

You know, I mean, what TV shows or what ...

What, you know ...

Where do people go that are big?

Where did Cold, what do Radiohead do these days?

You know what I mean?

It's just, you know,

once you've played Jools Holland, is that it?

Are you supposed to retire or something?

I don't, do you know what I mean? (laughs)

Where does it end?

Where is the final accolade?

- There's a bit of me thinks it's a bit weird

going into this music business,

record, tour, routine.

which is standard, which is what everybody does.

But there's a bit that's kind of sad

that we're gonna be doing that.

Because it becomes, you know, it's part of the machine.

Alright, chap?

- How are you doing? - Good, good.

- I'm a bit late. - Nah, no worries, mate.

No worries. - I'll pull it forward a bit.

Straighten it up. - Yeah that works, mate.

- Have you got much gear? - No, not at all.

We'll be five minutes, if that.

- Alright.

Is this anybody's road?

- Yeah, it's fine, don't worry about it.

It's pretty much ours. (laughs)

Oh, big bus! (chuckles)

No, no we-- - Hello everybody.

- [Steve] We're having an alcohol-free tour

as well mate, seriously.

- Are you? - Yeah yeah.

So this is-- (people chattering)

So we got ...

How many bunks have we got upstairs?

- I'm sorry? - How many bunks are upstairs?

- 14. - 14?

Alright.

This is the star's quarter.

This is for Elvis.

- [John] What, the whole of up here?

- No, no, we've got in here, John,

private lounge, couple of beds.

Seats looking over the front. - Is there?

- Yeah, the rest of us js have to make do.

(laughing)

- You had some fun with Nottingham buses?

They had those big bumpers, didn't they, a few years?

- Oh yeah.

I did it for 15 years. - Did you?

- Yeah, I quit at the start of this year.

- Did you, bloody hell!

I managed a year of it in York and it did me head in.

- Where I worked at, it was pretty decent,

kinda (mumbled), yeah it could've been a lot worse.

- Yeah. - And, the job's alright.

If you mind your own business.

- Yeah, that's it.

- And that going and all that.

What's the top speed this does then?

- Yeah, it'll do about 100, 102, flat out.

Like normally fully sleeping, it will 85, 90.

- Right, right.

You'll see Elvis in a minute, on this side.

- Really? - Yeah yeah.

Here on Avon down here,

where that bus is, where that set of lights are.

Yeah, that bus pulling up.

It's a bus stop there, just pull in there, and that's where.

(laughing)

- [Driver] Has he got much baggage.

- No, I see him, I'm looking at him.

- [Driver] I'll put him on his front.

When he comes back, goes around the main door.

- How do we get in?

- Well, just for to now, I mean,

but the entrance is on the other side.

You're alright? - Yeah, yeah, not bad.

- [Steve] And, that pretty much goes all the way.

(mellow music)

♪ We range the view we do ♪

♪ The dead will fall no one's bothered ♪

♪ You're trapped me too ♪

♪ Radiation no one's bothered ♪

Yeah well, we've got one, John.

Right who's got what? - Hello nice to meet you.

- [Steve] A bit smaller than we're used to.

- Oh, fucking hell, fucking hell!

Come on, I've had an hard night.

Sat on that luxurious fucking tour bus outside

full of shiny red leather.

Didn't go down too well, did it?

Always have to work a bit harder when we come up here,

you fucking arseholes.

You're making us fucking sweat tonight,

always in a bubble.

Me and Andrew were in a complete bubble,

where it was just dead easy.

We walked on, swore a bit and fucked off,

but now we come here,

and it's like a day at fucking work.

Really is a day at work.

And if you make a mistake,

you make it in front of all you cunts.

In between song banter,

fucking shit as well, isn't it, innit?

(crowd chanting)

Hello, you lovely Northern people!

♪ I'll take it I'll take it down ♪

♪ I'll take it I said we're live tonight ♪

♪ Live tonight ♪

♪ Gig you into the fucking ground ♪

♪ I'm not moaning man ♪

♪ I like the smell of mist on curbs ♪

♪ Near the beer garden at night ♪

♪ I like the taxis cars motorbike ♪

♪ Well if the council want a no traffic zone ♪

♪ That's sound mate ♪

♪ Good with me I got a latte on ♪

- I slept for about two hours, three hours,

as you can see.

We've had turbulence, John.

- [Woman] Yeah, it's not bad is it?

I mean, it's quite comfy.

- Yeah, it's good enough for us, mate.

What do you reckon, Carlisle in two and a half hours?

- [Driver] Two hours 40 minutes according to that.

- Yeah, so we can get a shower

and a coffee or something.

- [Jason] You could still film there.

- No, no, we sort of have to be, mate.

- I won't go very much for all of you.

(muffled speaking)

(whistling)

There's the ones.

You have to threaten us to pay at the end.

You get fucked off with the attention.

Sometimes you don't want to talk to people,

or you know, after gigs, or whatever, or before gigs,

or you just wanna hang around, you know what I mean?

So, there is that.

I can see probably going well, you're a bit of a twat.

No, not really, I'm just knackered,

I don't wanna talk to anyone.

But in regards to turning into a popstar wanker, no.

No, I did tell the wife I thought I was a rock star

the other night, though.

That's fucking shit, isn't it.

- It was tough in places.

You know, especially when he'd come home,

'cause obviously there's the decompression time as well.

You know, he's been away and he comes back.

And, we call it the cunt flu.

So he comes home and he is basically a shit

for about a good week or so, maybe two weeks.

Not the easiest!

- [Man] We were getting concerned, man.

- Were you?

What a fucking joke, man.

Playing your own fucking town.

You alright?

Nice to see you. - Good to see you too.

- You're alright? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Good, good.

You play in your own fucking town

and you have to do the washing up!

- You had to do the pots?

- Take the dog for a walk, for fuck's sake!

I'm fucking nervous, that's what's up today.

Anyway, I'll see you.

- I think it's being on stage, isn't it.

You kind of, you get on stage,

everyone's kind of like that to you,

and then you get back off the stage,

and he'd kind of you're like that, on that rollercoaster.

And then get back here and it's like okay,

well, now you need to load the dishwasher!

Pick your knickers up, kind of stuff.

(funky punk music)

♪ And then the crap kicks in ♪

♪ Makes everything go thin ♪

♪ Lost out square one grout ♪

♪ Weather bangs on my door ♪

♪ Experts come out ♪

♪ The dud work ♪

♪ Chirping on about ♪

♪ Ya music moves ♪

♪ You run a crap club in Brum you lose ♪

♪ I won ♪

♪ I won ♪

♪ Silent dreams are a blag on time ♪

♪ They get away with the worst crimes ♪

♪ You fall fast in a void of pain ♪

♪ Only to remember that you still remain ♪

♪ Death defying voices die ♪

♪ Ain't no beacon in the sound guy ♪

♪ You fall fast in a void of pain ♪

♪ Only to remember that you still remain ♪

♪ Still remain ♪

♪ Still remain ♪

Rock bands.

- I could get a job in recording, alright.

Yeah, Christ, bloody hell, look at this.

Is this all mine? - Yeah, yeah.

- Jesus Christ, swank!

- [Steve] Yeah, leave it on there for the moment,

and I'll find something, else.

- Or just do it that way. - That's fine.

- Yeah, seriously it's fine.

That's fine.

- It's the middle one. - Alright mate.

One, two, one, two.

One, two, one, two.

(people chattering)

(heavy breathing)

- That's just Dad, pleases stop.

- [Girl] Dad's doing it. (laughter)

- What's the time?

- [Claire] I don't know.

You got proper socks? - No.

(laughs)

- 'Cause some fucker will try to nick it.

(distant chattering)

- Yeah? - Yeah.

- Alright, what else do you need?

- That's it, I'm fine. - You sure?

(chattering)

You're on in five minutes.

You know, it's not far, but ...

- Ugh, ta ...

- [Claire] It's gonna be absolutely brilliant.

- I fucking hate this bit though.

- I know, but this is the bit.

If it wasn't like this, you'd give up.

When it stops being like this before you go on,

it's time to stop.

(distant chattering)

- My trousers are too high,

I need to stop wearing them like that.

It's just fucking daft.

- They're fine, absolutely fine.

In fact, I'm loving those shoes.

I really wasn't convinced when you first bought them,

as always, but they are good shoes.

- Someone last night said to me,

oh you play Nottingham?

You're going to go down well.

They love you in your own town.

And I'm like, you know me and Jay

haven't really been supported by the musical ...

It's all a bit jaded anyway. - Yeah.

- Lower down in the ranks a bit, you know.

(crowd cheering)

- Home, sweet fucking home.

Home, sweet fucking home.

Hi, cunts. (crowd screams)

I can't fucking hear ya.

It felt like we were being taken seriously,

not only by the promoters and venues that put us on

but also by the people that came to see us, you know.

It felt like we were a proper band.

As opposed to the spit and sawdust aggro music,

aggro sort of act that we are, I suppose, you know.

So, it felt like we'd gone from club band

to big venue band, you know.

And they are big venues, 2,000 is a big venue, isn't it.

- More than fucking--

- I didn't think it would be so big tonight.

Love these people (mumbled) my laptop here tonight.

- I know, you can't help it, can ya?

(crowd chanting)

I think what we need to do at the end

is go out to the front, hold hands and bow.

Ha ha! - Okay, we'll do that.

- Oh, no, we're not gonna do that.

- Are you ready? - Yeah, go on.

(cheering and whistling)

Who would have thought it?

Two cunts like us.

It's a full fucking house.

(cheering and applause)

In 2009, Nottingham, you felt a warm feeling in your belly

and out dropped two 43 year old men

who will love you forever.

Nottingham, you have conceived us.

Nottingham, we are your sons!

(cheering)

Come on.

Come on!

(punk music)

♪ I get a shaky start to Tuesday ♪

♪ Sweat stains on bus windows ♪

♪ I don't want ruin my coat but ♪

♪ That's just the way it goes ♪

♪ Cheer up you fuckin' bastard ♪

♪ That's all I heard him say ♪

♪ St George's flag on white van ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet tweet tweet ♪

♪ Well this is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet tweet tweet ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ These wheels are turning tricks ♪

♪ This bus is full of pricks ♪

♪ Eight hours of Gedling Council fuck your life ♪

♪ It's spare room hassle ♪

♪ Dead weight is living flesh ♪

♪ We are no longer spesh ♪

♪ The grips that pull my hair ♪

♪ A life not lived 'cause I don't care ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet tweet tweet ♪

♪ But this is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Well I just bit half of mine ♪

♪ I throw myself on the Metroline ♪

♪ When I walk back from the train ♪

♪ With the Stella kicking in my brain ♪

♪ Well I just bit half of mine ♪

♪ I throw myself on the Metroline ♪

♪ When I walk back from the train ♪

♪ With the Stella kicking in my brain brain brain ♪

Rock City, Nottingham, we love ya, thank you!

(cheering and applause)

- Keep an eye on my laptop for a few minutes.

(crowd football chanting)

What a mental one.

What the fuck?

- Like a football match.

- I mean, really, weird.

- Brilliant.

(crowd football chanting)

- We're not going back now.

(crowd football chanting and clapping)

The only time they've ever done that.

'Cause it was just ...

Football player in a football match.

I mean really, I mean ...

You think you've never seen anything like it,

and then there's something else.

The events are almost like a,

you know, seeing the Grand Canyon, or something.

Do you know what I mean?

They are like a natural wonder,

but it's all created by people.

And it's such a weird thing, you know,

because the ethics behind music,

environmentally aren't really that sound,

vinyl to like, all this crap,

tour buses, it's all

too much for the planet, you know.

But we need it for our entertainment.

(crowd football chanting)

- That was crazy, that was crazy!

Good job!

Crazy shy guy, shy guy!

Yeah, going back or coming in?

(all laughing and talking)

- Virgin and EMI probably pay people to do this.

I, of course, wouldn't encourage such slavery.

I've got 700 of these to do.

Not all in one sitting, I might add.

I've got to tidy all this up before the missus comes home,

otherwise she'll kill me.

No, I mean, I've enjoyed it, to be honest with you.

I was a bit,

I'm not one for the regional, local pride,

but I was really pleased

with the Nottingham Rock City gig.

That was really ...

I was giggling to myself at the side of the stage.

Just unbelievable.

I thought it was like a great vindication of all the work

and the years that Andrew, Jason, and myself

have put in doing gigs, putting stuff together.

And all the people that have taken

the piss out of us out of the years,

thinking, what the fuck are those idiots doing?

It's a great big two fingers to them.

(mellow punk music)

- I knew two or three people

in Nottingham who did live on boats, if I think about it.

But at the time, it wasn't,

I didn't really put those two things together, you know?

And it just seemed affordable.

So yeah, it was just an idea.

I mean, I didn't really know whether I'd be into it or not.

But it seems to have worked out.

It's not that, is it?

It is.

Yeah, so ...

So we bought the boat in Daventry, which is

kind of about here, I think.

And then we took it back up to Nottingham

and moved out of my flat.

And then we went over here

to Boston.

And then came back and went to Cambridge.

And then we'd just come down to London.

So the plan is to go over here to Bristol.

And then maybe next summer we'll end up

in all this Birmingham stuffs.

Before, when I'd get back to the flat,

I would feel a bit, you know,

when you sit on the couch

and like you say, you lock yourself away from the world.

You do feel a bit depressed then.

You know, so the distractions

and everything are really good,

they kinda like pull you out of it.

And, you know, it's a totally different environment.

You're not in a popular pop band and whatever.

You know, you're just drifting around, you know.

♪ It's anyone's guess how I got here ♪

♪ Anyone's guess how I'll go ♪

♪ I suck I lost my line ♪

Right, alright, man?

- [Man] Yeah well, I'm happy if you are.

- Alright yeah, sweet.

- O2 Arena in London, 18,000 people

watching Camden indie rock.

Ha ha ha, or something like that.

Oh, sorry.

Anyway, so we're watching Camden indie rock.

That's it.

(laughing)

(mellow rock music)

There's Elvis and PeDo!

(baby crying)

- [Jason] You alright, you okay?

- Yeah, I'm alright.

- [Jason] Fuck me!

- Yeah, dressing room B.

- This is ours, yeah. - Fuckin' hell.

There's a big toilet in there

everything you need.

You can have five shits, mate,

still have a clean loo.

- I don't need a shit now, I've done the gig, I'm good.

I'd better see the missus.

- [Andrew] Move that thing in the way ...

- Have a beer or something. - I will, mate.

- [Steve] Claire will keep it under control.

- Yeah, I know.

(melancholy music)

(people chattering)

Seriously, we've done

three years of solid fucking gigging, promotion on our own.

Album after album, three albums in three years.

We told everyone to fuck off,

and we've done it our own way.

And, people have come to us.

It's just been a real case of people coming to us.

Yeah, you could carry that on.

But we all felt that

we probably needed somebody else there,

because it was getting exhausting.

You know, it was like health, healthwise,

I don't wanna fuck myself up.

Music is not that important.

You know what I mean?

It can fuck off, you know.

It's something I wanna do

but I'm not gonna kill myself for it.

So yeah, we just thought

we needed someone to, someone else there,

with the right movements, to come in.

- I just got an email out of the blue,

just a really polite one actually, from Geoff Travis,

saying that he really enjoys the band,

what we've done, how things are going

and how we've worked things.

And he wasn't, I don't think he was even

sniffing after the band.

Maybe, I think he probably was,

but it was worded in such a really nice polite,

you know way, I actually bothered to respond to it.

Most of these sort of things I just, pfft, you know?

But, it just to me, it just made a lot of sense.

I mean, Sleafords is a very independent setup,

Rough Trade is the quintessential independent setup.

And yeah, it just makes a lot of sense.

We could just carry on as we are,

progressively getting bigger.

But we would effectively be coasting,

which Sleafords doesn't need to be doing.

Sleafords is music for everybody.

It's about, it's for everybody.

So it's important to reach as many people as possible.

And I think again, the Rough Trade deal would do that.

If we kept it as we are now it would just,

you know, it would get bigger,

but it wouldn't be as big a push to make it bigger.

I think that's what Rough Trade are offering us.

I've actually got, a record nerd,

all the Rough Trade records

up to, I think, like 1982.

Everything from 1977 to 1982.

Yeah, I have every one.

The Pop Group on Rough Trade.

Again, test pressings.

Old press kits.

Yeah, I'll stop waffling about that shit.

Come on, I've got sick stuff to do.

Put your camera on.

(distant chattering)

What's the best place?

- [Woman] Shall we,

shall we do it on my desk?

There's more space. - Sure, absolutely.

On the line, Jay. - Alright, you ready?

Yeah, got you.

- And here you go.

That's that.

I'll see what else it says here.

- Oh, and there.

- That's me, I'll do there, then.

You've done it.

- That's it?

- That's it. - Sweet!

Thank you very much.

- Welcome to Rough Trade.

Nice you're here.

- Yes, thank you for having us.

- Alright. - Let's crack it open.

- [Jason] Yeah, we've come a long way, haven't we?

- We have, yeah.

From the bins. - What?

- From the bins of Nottingham. - The bins of Nottingham.

It gives us support.

- We think if we can kinda create an environment

where people feel like the work

that needs to be done is being done

so you don't have to worry about it,

then that gives you

a better mental space to try and do your stuff.

'Cause it's hard not to do your stuff well.

So, you don't want to be worrying about

other people fucking things up.

- I think what we've done today is good.

I think me and Andrew need a bit of security.

Don't we? - Yeah, yeah, I think so.

- I feel like I do and I think you--

- After what we've been through.

I'm no whippersnapper anymore, so.

- You know what I mean?

And, I think it'll be alright with Rough Trade.

If not then we'll just do one. - Yeah.

- They're not gonna fuck about, and we're not.

I don't think it's gonna be like that.

- No. - I think it'll be alright.

- Furious Pig.

- Come on, get here, get in, I'll put you on.

- I don't do that bonding crap.

- Oh come on, fucking hell!

- I'm a punk, I don't do that crap.

It's not a big glamorous occasion, is it?

Some pizza and champagne.

That's not a good mix.

That's so fucking British.

(laughing)

That's so British, but what do you do?

It's more than they got

when I put the first record out.

When I first met Jason to discuss the record,

I took him to a pub in Nottingham.

The Dog & Parrot, I think.

Which is that really, really, really rough

fucking market trader's pub.

Where the beer is really cheap.

He'd never been there in his life.

I thought I'd test his working class credentials,

I took him to a proper boozer.

It's alright, it's cheap here, isn't it?

He wasn't used to it.

He's used to wine bars and shit like that.

- [Woman] But it's a big turning point, isn't it?

- Yeah, it marks the end of a particular era.

And, I think with what we've done

over the past couple of years,

it's fucking groundbreaking,

in terms of what we've got away with.

So yeah I'm sure we'll get people saying

they've sold out, they've signed a deal or something,

but you know as I said, there's 100% control.

Rough Trade's role is support, not interfering.

So yeah, I'm happy with it all.

I just think ...

Turn the camera off now and I'll tell you the truth.

- Look, baby, I have a radio show.

I have my pride, I need the fucking show to be good.

So, when I want the show to be really good

and pick it up, I play them.

I play the Sleaford Mods.

And up ratchets the energy

and I feel refreshed, as a person.

Jason Williamson

usually uses a very quick delivery

and there's, his accent is much different than my own.

So I can't really understand what he is saying.

And they are very organized.

So they sent me this book.

Which is, actually it's a beauty.

It's the size and shape

of an English Grammar, you call that.

You know what you get.

And it has a little penis and everything,

to keep a light touch.

I'll read this one.

I related to this lyric very well, because

in my life, I was once a,

I was once basically a poor, angry

musician from the sticks.

And, you had to go to the big city

and meet powerful people.

So, I sat around the bloke's house.

He liked me 'cause I'd made some informed comment

about the early history of his fucking country.

Big mirror, lumps of drugs,

his own private lift, shit pieces of art.

Matter of fact statements

about picking his kid up in two hours.

Twat.

As if.

You're brave, you're brave.

Yeah, ain't we all?

Chain smoke your fags.

I ain't listening to you, mate, I ain't listen to fuck all.

I've just wanked into your toilet.

Polish that you connoisseur.

I'm a connoisseur, I've conned you, sir.

Oh, little word play there, you know.

So, anyway.

Wanked in your toilet.

I can relate, I can see that guy.

- I bet he fucking can! - That he's talking to.

- I bet he can. (laughing)

- Innit! - That is amazing.

- Well, well, the love affair is over.

It was brief, it was passionate.

It was juicy.

And I want you to know

that we'd love to come back again.

So please, if you've got five minutes,

vote for the Sleaford Mods.

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

(punk music)

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ I get a shaky start to Tuesday ♪

♪ Sweat stains on bus windows ♪

♪ I don't wanna ruin my coat but ♪

♪ That's just the way it goes ♪

♪ Cheer up you fuckin' bastard ♪

♪ That's all I heard him say ♪

♪ St George's flag on white van ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ These wheels are turning tricks ♪

♪ This bus is full of pricks ♪

♪ Eight hours of Gedling Council fuck your life ♪

♪ It's spare room hassle ♪

♪ Dead weight is living flesh ♪

♪ We are no longer spesh ♪

♪ The grips that pull my hair ♪

♪ A life not lived 'cause I don't care ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ This is the human race ♪

♪ UKIP and your disgrace ♪

♪ Chopped heads on London streets ♪

♪ All you zombies tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪

♪ Chirp chirp well I just bit half of mine ♪

♪ I throw myself on the Metroline ♪

♪ When I walk back from the train ♪

♪ With the Stella kicking in my brain ♪

♪ Well I just bit half of mine ♪

♪ I throw myself on the Metroline ♪

♪ When I walk back from the train ♪

♪ With the Stella kicking in my brain brain brain ♪

Sleaford Mods, thank you! (microphone thumping)

(crowd cheering)

- But at the end of the day, he's a cunt.

- I'm a cunt. - He's a cunt.

- I'm a cunt. - I'm a cunt.

You're a cunt.

- Well, a proper one. - We're all fucking cunts.

- Bunch of cunts, bunch of cunts.

- Bunch of cunts.

Right, start again.

(punk music)

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of ♪

♪ Yeah, bunch of fucking absolute cunts ♪

♪ Bang banging on the shop in front non ports ♪

♪ The flicker, the fruit machine ♪

♪ The guaranteed boss ♪

♪ A two for one ♪

♪ We are the sitcom, wicked ♪

♪ You played it out to the finest corn on the armchair ♪

♪ Scare it ♪

♪ Fresh leaves, morning petrol ♪

♪ And sweet day as Hansel and Gretel ♪

♪ Each to an air of what the fuck ♪

♪ Lost souls in the victorious center ♪

♪ Look lost, Dr. Dre your medphones are shit ♪

♪ And they're fuckin' everywhere mate ♪

♪ Boo box, urban toss ♪

♪ The ghost of the beaming light ♪

♪ Through the fucking beat box ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ I'll be beyond the speaker bop to the next tune boom ♪

♪ In the jungle, the mighty jungle ♪

♪ The lion's off his knock ♪

♪ Gold rings, bracelets ♪

♪ He is on the road, the SSP went ♪

♪ And so I better the benefit from him on the go ♪

♪ I got four tape, one quick ♪

♪ I know there's more ♪

♪ We get split on the endless mind lights ♪

♪ Sea side resort ♪

♪ I open your map ♪

♪ I bang out the right ♪

♪ The fair ground bright ♪

♪ The screaming crowd ♪

♪ I sound like I got some paper map ♪

♪ Torture me thick, come an angel delight ♪

♪ Angel delight ♪

♪ Follow these rocks ♪

♪ I want the spangles right ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Bunch of cunts ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that, just like that ♪

♪ Just like that ♪

(blows raspberry)

(city traffic humming)

- [Announcer] Undoubtedly, absolutely, definitely,

the world's greatest rock and roll band, Slea- ...

- It's pure, and it's like, and you can't fuck with it.

- I was like, fuckin' hell, that's it,

that's what I should have been doing.

After I left Cra- ...

- Air in a kind of stagnated and stale sort of industry.

Nobody is really talking the stuff they talk.

- Kind of simplified electronic music

but it has power and impa- ...

- Great, no hope for us.

♪ And then the dealer ♪

- It is a band that, on paper,

shouldn't really appeal to people.

Politics bullshit that a lot of media types

seem to think it is.

I mean, there's probably an element of that.

Well, it's just a refreshing band.

- Verse, should come straight in.

You know like, dirty human being,

that stays on the chorus tune.

- Yeah. - Do you know what I mean?

And then just come in with the verse.

- It's the way he says things, you know ...

(barking) (punk music)

♪ The corgi, the palace gets it right ♪

♪ The corgi ♪

- He's been a total wanker all his life.

He's been a total drop-out all his life.

There was no way he was ever gonna

end up where he is.

- Jason didn't really care that much, I think

about his life.

I think it's probably the best way to maybe ...

- Sounds grim. - But it was horrible, yeah.

That was probably the worst time.

♪ Grief curlywurl ♪

♪ Grief, grief curlywurl ♪

♪ Grief curlywurly ♪

♪ I eat my dinner on the bus ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm sick of people asking me what I got ♪

♪ What is that ♪

♪ Fuck off back to your own desk ♪

♪ You weird twat, bang ♪

- The first time I heard a Sleaford Mods track, if you like,

was when he was,

'cause when he did the early recordings,

he was in the same building as our studio.

- The recordings,

by the time he was ready to record,

we were all pretty drunk anyway.

It was just like plug it in.

And I was like, that's cool.

- Do what you want. - Just do ...

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

♪ Shit, and then the dealers tipped up ♪

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

- This is the exotic location

where we filmed the Tied Up In Nottz video

one Sunday morning many moons ago.

As you can see, it's really glamorous and exotic.

(punk music)

- Where's your bastard bounty?

Know this fucking song.

Even if you don't fucking know it.

♪ EDL twat Tommy used to work on the dock ♪

♪ Union went all white he fuckin' loved it ♪

♪ And the Buzz Lightyear haircut ♪

♪ Callin' all the workers plebs ♪

♪ You better think about the future, you bet ♪

(screaming)

♪ I say ♪

(birds chirping and horns honking)

- The one place where the most incend- ...

The latest to make music that rails against the system.

Sleaford Mods.

(bass punk music)

(punk music)

♪ Mind said the asshole to the legs ♪

♪ You got to be cruel to be ♪

♪ Lonely life that is touring ♪

♪ I got an armful of decent tunes, mate mate ♪

♪ It's boring, it's boring ♪

♪ It's boring, it's boring ♪

♪ It's all a lot of bollocks ♪

♪ Tied up in Nottz ♪

- Who talk in German and understand German,

yet they're singing Jason's lyrics

as if it's their own.

Do you get what I mean?

(bubbly music and radio static)

♪ And splash out on shit ♪ - Got my festival jacket on.

♪ I'd better get a penny farthing ♪

♪ And Marvelous Marvin ♪

- [Announcer] And now (imitating drum roll)

I wanna play something called Live Toni- ...

- Fucking tour bus outside full of shiny red leather.

- [Steve] Gonna make quick, alright.

(mic check echoing)

- I'm happy, if you want. - Alright, yeah, swing.

- Go to a green ...

(city traffic humming)

- [Steve] What's the best place?

- [Woman] Shall we ...

Shall we do it on my desk?

There's more space. - Sure, absolutely.

- Look, baby, I have a radio show.

I have my pride.

To be good, so when I want the show

to be really good and pick it ...

- Fair is over.

It was brief, it was passionate, it was ...