Hello and welcome to Soderjoker on songwriting. It's Brian and Simon here and joining us for

episode 310 as an English post-punk duo hailing from the East Midlands. As well as maintaining a prolific

output over the last decade and a half, they've also collaborated with the likes of The Prodigy,

Perry Farrell, Orbital, Baxter Jury, Billy No-Mates and Amy Taylor.

Their latest album, The Demise of Planet X is hot off the presses,

and with a supporting cast that includes Gwendolyn Christie, Big Special, Aldous Harding,

Snowy, Sue Tompkins and Liam Bailey, it's arguably their most eclectic and ambitious effort

to date. We're chuffed to welcome Jason Williamson

and Andrew Furn, aka Sleaford Mods, to the show. Both Jason and Andrew hail from the County of

Lincolnshire. Jason was raised in Grantham while Andrew grew up on a farm in the village of Saxelby.

The latter was obsessed with music to the point of distraction from an early age and played drums

in bands in his teens. He briefly attended Newark College before moving to Not was obsessed with music to the point of distraction from an early age and played drums in

bands in his teens. He briefly attended Newark College before moving to Nottingham in

1989, initially to study music production, and before too long was conducting his own recording

experiments on a newly acquired Fostex 4 track. Jason, meanwhile, was introduced to the sex pistols

by his elder stepbrother around the age of 10, later discovering Motown, as well as mod bands like the Jam and the Who, then spent much of his 20s and 30s fronting a variety of groups with names like Meat Pie and Stone Cold Williamson. He faced it on the concept of Sleafed Mods, which he originally christened That Shit Try Harder around the mid-2000s, when his sound engineer friend

Simon Parframant suggested he lay down some lyrics over pre-recorded samples and loops.

Inspired by the likes of Bhutan clan and the streets, Jason recorded four homemade albums in that

vein before his and Andrews Patz converged in 2010 at Nottingham's Chameleon Arts Centre.

A short while later they began working together at Andrews Flat, his sparse, propulsive backing

tracks providing the perfect setting for Jason's uniquely forceful delivery and uncompromising

lyrical approach.

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