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Thu 16 October The Scholar – Leicester, UK
Thu 23 October 100 Club – London, UK
Fri 24 October 100 Club – London, UK
Sat 25 October The Haunt – Brighton, UK
Sun 26 October Exchange – Bristol, UK
Fri 31 October Rock City – Nottingham, UK
Wed 5 November Broadcast – Glasgow, UK
Thu 6 November Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
Fri 7 November Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
Sat 8 November Electric Circus – Edinburgh, UK
Sun 9 November O2 Academy – Newcastle, UK
Mon 10 November O2 Academy – Leeds, UK
Tue 11 November O2 Apollo – Manchester, UK
Thu 13 November Roundhouse – London, UK
Fri 14 November Roundhouse – London, UK
Sat 15 November Harbinger Soundclash 2014 – Kortrijk, Belgium
Thu 20 November The Civic Hall – Wolverhampton, UK
Thu 20 November – Sun 23 November Le Guess Who? Festival 2014 -Utrecht, Netherlands
Fri 21 November Poppodium Merleyn – Nijmegen, Netherlands
Sat 22 November Mellkweg Oude Zaal – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sat 29 November The Wick/The Well – Brooklyn, NY, US
Fri 5 December – Dublin, Whelans, Ireland JUST ANNOUNCED
Sat 6 December – Limerick, Kasbah, Ireland JUST ANNOUNCED
Sun 7 December – Cork, Crane Lane, Ireland JUST ANNOUNCED
Sat 13 December O2 Academy 2 Sheffield – Sheffield, UK
Fri 30 January Electric Ballroom – London, UK
Fri 27 Feburary – Northampton, Roadmenders JUST ANNOUNCED
Saturday 28 February – Barnsley, The Londoner JUST ANNOUNCED
Monday 2 March – Wakefield, The Hop JUST ANNOUNCED
Tuesday 3 March – Liverpool, Kazimier JUST ANNOUNCED
Weds 4 March – Stockton – on -Tees, Georgian Theatre JUST ANNOUNCED
Thurs 5 March – York, Duchess JUST ANNOUNCED
Friday 6 March – Scunthorpe, Cafe INDIEpendent JUST ANNOUNCED
Tues 10 March – Cardiff, CF10 JUST ANNOUNCED
Weds 11 March – Oxford, 02 Academy JUST ANNOUNCED
Thurs 12 March – Southampton, Joiners JUST ANNOUNCED
Fri 13 March – Colchester, Arts Centre JUST ANNOUNCED
Sat 14 March – Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms JUST ANNOUNCED
Tues 17 March – Derby, Hairy Dog JUST ANNOUNCED
Weds 18 March – St Albans, The Horn JUST ANNOUNCED
Thurs 19 March – Ramsgate, Music Hall JUST ANNOUNCED
Fri 20 March – Hitchin, The Horn JUST ANNOUNCED
Sat 21 March – Lincoln, The Scene JUST ANNOUNCED
Tues 24 March – Royal Leamington Spa, Zephyr Lounge JUST ANNOUNCED
Weds 25 March – Doncaster, Priory JUST ANNOUNCED
Thurs 26 March – Kingston-upon-Hull, Fruit JUST ANNOUNCED
Fri 27 March – Hebden Bridge, Trades Club JUST ANNOUNCED
Monday 30 March – Reading, Sub 89 JUST ANNOUNCED
Tues 31 March – Portsmouth, Fat Fox JUST ANNOUNCED
Weds 1 April – Exeter, Cavern JUST ANNOUNCED
Thurs 2 April – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Forum JUST ANNOUNCED
Fri 24 April Bahnhof Langendeer E.v – Bochum, Germany
Here’s how their story goes… Sleaford Mods started out sometime during 2006 whilst Jason Williamson was living in Nottingham. Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic situations arising from that trap. After a year of working ideas out in both the studio and in live performances, Williamson moved south and took the cause to London and trod the boards there for a couple of years, before returning to Nottingham in 2009.
Soon after that return he met Andrew Fearn and the Sleaford Mods became a duo. Fearn’s first work was on the production of Wank – the Mods’ fifth CD album. Soon after that he started stalking the stage and studio with Williamson. Andrew’s involvement meant that Jason was now able to stop creating the samples and loops that littered the early recordings and concentrate on the lyrics, whilst Andrew created numerous tunes for Jason to vent his spleen over.
Just after the release of Wank the duo were invited to play a three day festival curated by Nottingham’s Rammel Club. During that weekend a working relationship with Nottingham’s abstract-punk Harbinger Sound label was formed. A relationship which – a year later – resulted in the release of the Austerity Dogs vinyl album. This release would be followed by numerous shows around the UK and Europe, including further festival appearances. As word-of-mouth praise for the album slowly spread out and onto the record-buying publics’ radar, Austerity Dogs soon sold out of its initial run of 300 copies and has gone on to, as of today, a fourth pressing of the vinyl edition as well as a CD version.
“Stream-of-consciousness tirades that conjure up a world of sticky cafe table-tops, grinding hangovers, and the cold comfort of consumerism.” – THE GUARDIAN
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