Sleaford Mods announce tour stop at National Stadium

Nottingham natives Sleaford Mods release UK Grim via Rough Trade Records on the fast-approaching date of March 10th.

Celebrating the album, the duo, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, are taking on an UK and EU tour.

Included in the tour is a Dublin gig, set for Saturday, November 25th at the National Stadium. The show will also feature currently unannounced guest performances.

Tickets for the show go on sale next Friday at 10AM.

The twelfth of the English band's albums, UK Grim is expected to build on the band's typical seditious qualities, elaborated upon in earlier works. Looking out at a post-Brexit world filled with rising energy costs, inflation, and a divided country filled with negative emotions, Sleaford Mods asks if things have "ever been worse."

"The rot's set in," says Jason Williamson, Sleaford Mods' vocalist.

“So much it’s trampled into our consciousness to the point where we have become as one with the Conservative Party. We’re all Conservative MPs now… servants of this really bleak sort of Aldi nationalism.”

Sleaford Mods started writing the album in the throes of the early 2021 lockdowns. From there, the album was workshopped at the recording and rehearsal studio JT Soar before the duo finished it up in Andrew Fearn's home studio.

Most of it was worked on before 2022, but Sleaford Mods' societal commentary rings true even through the "convulsions of society losing its mind."

Like their 2021 album Spare Ribs, the 14-track album focuses on stripping back the "sicknesses of society" for the listener. The electronic and hip hop tracks focus on harmful right-wing politics, the trials of the struggling, and existential loneliness, topped with artful anger at it all.

UK Grim is now available for pre-order on Sleaford Mods' website.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 10th at 10AM starting from €33.50 here: