As the UK slumped and staggered from austerity into Brexit, it was Nottingham
duo Sleaford Mods who piled their pent-up contempt into an unfiltered soundtrack
of DIY, club beats and raging punk poetry, and seemed to best capture the mood
of blue-collar Britain. Frontman Jason Williamson (born 10 November 1970 in
Grantham, Lincolnshire) had been unsuccessfully plugging away in nondescript
guitar bands and short-lived electro-rock projects since the 1990s and had grown
increasingly depressed by the economic and political climate around him. He said
that there came a point when he f...