Tag: sleaford mods

LIVE: Isle of Wight Festival 11.06.15 – 14.06.15

Festival season has officially begun! The Isle of Wight Festival opened its fields and campsites to festival-lovers who were eager to fill their ears with the sounds of The Black Keys, The Prodigy, Blur and the inimitable Fleetwood Mac. Below are…

10 of the Best Protest Songs

What makes a great protest song? Decent lyrics and worthy sentiments alone aren’t enough – the music also needs to cut the mustard. Great protest songs have a defined purpose; they’re not limited to providing simple commentary or merely bleating on about how shit things are in general….

LIVE: Sleaford Mods @ The Forum, Tunbridge Wells 02.04.15

Welcome to Tunbridge Wells. Royal Tunbridge Wells. The embodiment of Conservative Middle England. Tory since 1974, when the consituency began, it’s perhaps the last place you’d expect to find a Sleaford Mods gig. But sleepy towns like this need waking…

ALBUM: The Prodigy ‘The Day Is My Enemy’  

Rating: We knew this was going to be big, didn’t we? The Prodigy are a band that are happy to take their time and keep plugging at an album until the sound is not only uniquely theirs, but something that…

INTERVIEW: Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain documentary

Sleaford Mods aren’t so much exposing the irrelevance of contemporary British pop music as smashing straight through it – armed with nothing more than a microphone and a laptop. A new documentary, Invisible Britain, directed and produced by independent filmmakers Nathan Hannawin…

Gigslutz Top 5 Albums of 2014

Because the world is crying out for another 2014 best of list, we present the top five albums of 2014 according to the Gigslutz editorial team… Listen to our Best of 2014 Playlist here Dan Bull, Reviews Editor 1. The Jezabels – The Brink…

2014 Tracks of the Year

As we come to the end of the year, I thought it only right to put together a ‘best of’ for my Tracks Of The Week –  a ‘Tracks Of The Year’, if you will. 2014 has been a pretty exciting year…

Sleaford Mods LIVE @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh 08.11.14

It’s 8pm on Saturday in Edinburgh’s Halfway House, where tonight the locals and stray tourists are joined by several Sleaford Mods fans. Huddled together in the small, crowded bar, they eulogise the Nottingham band, who are described as ‘proper’, ‘quality’ and ‘the real deal’. Listening to their conversation,…