An Indiegogo page has been launched for Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain, a proposed documentary which has been endorsed by the Nottingham duo themselves. “This documentary is a good thing, an insight into an ‘actual’ bandView Post, fucking about, working, no gloss, no bollocks. This is music,” said the band’s vocalist Jason Williamson.
The documentary will be the debut feature film by Nathan Hannawin and Paul Sng, who first met the Sleaford Mods when they interviewed them in Brighton last year, and has been inspired by “Patrick Keiller’s extraordinary Robinson Trilogy, the psycho-geography of Iain Sinclair, Mark Steel’s in Town radio programme, and J.G.Ballard’s comment ‘Feel alive, drive around the M25!’”
The filmmakers will follow the Sleaford Mods on a forthcoming tour which will see them play locations that are often left out on conventional UK tour schedules, places such as Stoke on Trent, Barnsley, Northampton, Wakefield, Stockton-on-Tees and Scunthorpe. “The Nottingham duo will be visiting towns and cities that don’t even exist in the minds of anyone south of Barnet,” the Indiegogo page reads. “The neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the UK that most would prefer to ignore… What better time to plunge into these hinterlands than on the eve of a divisive election, and in the company of a band who’ve got everything to play for, and who give voice to the pent up rage and the hopeless, helpless frustration of a country on the brink.”
At the time of writing, the project has raised nearly £6300 of its £7000 goal. Watch a trailer for Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain below.
