<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>With apologies for x-posting<br><br><br><b>Saturday, 24th August 2013 at West Germany</b><br></font></span></div></div>
</div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Doors: 9pm</font></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br><br>Old Spice Fucker presents: </font></span></div></div></div><div><div>
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</font></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>SLEAFORD MODS (Nottingham)</font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>CHARLES MONEYPENNY (London)</font></span></b></div>
<div><div><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>DJ's:</font></span></b></div></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>STEVE UNDERWOOD (Nottingham)</font></span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><span>JOKE</span> <span>LANZ</span> (Berlin)</font></span></b></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></div>
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Sleaford Mods: Two scowling men from the Nottingham area, making aggro
punk poetry that sounds like the bastard child of John Cooper Clarke’s
Beasley Street grown up on hard knocks, rave culture and the Wu-Tang
Clan. Jason Williamson is the voice: a big man with an angry face, used
to be one of that “door-swings-open, swagger-to-the-bar-crew” but now
grown older and wiser. His delivery is venomous, confrontational, but
often funny and delighting in twists of language: eyeballing the
“scaly-faced booze pricks”, the geezers with their “concrete dagger
swaggers”, and saving special contempt for “the cunt with the gut and
the Buzz Lightyear haircut, calling all the workers plebs”.<br> <br>
Williamson was born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, and lived in London and
San Francisco, bouncing through a process of jobs and bands, before
despair set in and he found his way back to the East Midlands. There, he
founded Sleaford Mods, which began as a solo project but has now
expanded to a duo, with co-conspirator Andrew Fearn handling bass guitar
and beats.<br> <br> Sleaford Mods released five albums on Nottingham
label Deadly Beefburger before getting the attention of Steve Underwood
of UK label Harbinger Sound. Harbinger is best known as a noise and
industrial label, releasing new and archive material from the likes of
Ramleh, Smegma and Hair Police. But Underwood heard something in
Sleaford Mods’ attitude that he liked. Hence Austerity Dogs, a vinyl
collection of new and old tracks of an appropriately austere stripe –
the soul loops of some of the early material stripped away, replaced by a
flinty bedrock of lurking bass guitar and lo-rent drum machine.<br> <br>
For Williamson, Sleaford Mods is a mission, an assault on a music
culture that celebrates the clichéd and banal. “Expression has to be
more than a skinny looker with a fucking Les Paul, or some careerist
band who had their ups and downs but finally took off, blah blah. You go
to work, come home, read something, and its usually riddled with images
like that. That Jaimie bloke from The Kills, bashing his guitar onstage
– it’s an image that’s been placed before you over and over. ‘Elegantly
wasted’. High-fashion dogshit. So obvious.”<br> <br> - Fact Magazine</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br>
</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>West Germany,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Skalitzer Strasse 133,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>2nd floor, </font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Berlin</font></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br>
</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sleafordmods" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/sleafordmods</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/597170366987857/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/597170366987857/</a><br>
</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harbinger-Sound/443402229062491" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harbinger-Sound/443402229062491</a></font></span></div>
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