SLEAFORD MODS

Stage: Big Stage

Sleaford Mods will be performing at the Barn Club on November 1, 2026!
Sleaford Mods will perform on November 1, 2026 at the Barn Club! The British duo will present to the audience material from the latest album “The Demise Of Planet X”. Get ready for uncompromising energy, a pulsating groove and a bitter diagnosis of modernity! Ticket sales start on April 10 at 10:00 at TicketClub Polska!
Nothing to worry about, it's just the end of the world... welcome to The Demise Of Planet X.

Over the course of a 15-year (and still ongoing) career in which they transformed “Do It Yourself” into “do it yourself” in practice, and their peculiar but irresistibly appealing style — of minimal electronics and maximum insight — has become a creative manifesto for an entire generation of artists following in their footsteps, evolving from lo-fi beginnings to albums that rank in to the top of the charts, sold-out tours and major festival scenes — who better than Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods to describe the collapse of civilization?

After shrewdly weaving raw electronics into their explorations of social rifts, their next album The Demise Of Planet X — as you might expect — offers a uniquely “sleafordian” vision of Armageddon. Moving away from typical apocalyptic clichés, the duo suggests that it is not a sudden catastrophe, but a slow progression of social apathy, cultural entropy and selfish corruption that will lead us to doom long before the supernova.

Inspired by the chaotic scenes Williamson witnessed at a club in the Midlands in the mid-2000s — and which have not left him to this day — Planet X ponders the fear that instead of a Mad Max apocalypse full of wild debauchery, a rather hazy state of disintegration and monotonous repetition awaits us. Forget the biker gangs and cyborgs — perhaps the real end of the planet will simply be the process of everything gradually getting worse and worse.

“I remember walking into this club and it was like the world ended, started over and rotted again — all at once. It's like we've been through Armageddon and that's what's left of it,” recalls Williamson, who, while working on the record, came to the conclusion that the phrase “the same, only worse” quite aptly describes the current state of affairs.

“This is how I perceive everything around me now,” he adds, referring to the daily degradation that has engulfed the world after coming out of lockdowns. “We are tormenting the dead horse, as they say, through mass consumption and the pursuit of money, while parts of the world are falling apart completely and the West ignores it. It's like we skipped Armageddon and went straight to what's after it.”

Trump's outbursts of anger and global tensions, of course, cast a shadow over this vision of the end of the world, but it is equally fragmented by everyday realities — pervasive uncertainty and petty frustrations. It is they who gradually loosen the social fabric. While Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their sins, their modern counterparts are disappearing today rather by successive failed deliveries of online orders. So the vision of the fall on Planet X turns out to be profound, personal, and at the same time quite ordinary.

And while the world may end up with a quiet moan rather than a spectacular bang, the opposite is true for the album itself. Just as visions of the Last Judgment inspired Jerome Bosch to create the most evocative images, The Demise Of Planet X brings some of Sleaford Mods' most polished and expressive pieces. Their signature blend of anger and irony, based on raw beats and electronic crackles, is still present, but has been enriched with new ideas and contributors who add more depth and empathy to the music.
The already opening album “The Good Life” shows how much the band has broadened their horizons, without losing their characteristic directness. Fearn's bass groove still pulsates with a familiar intensity, but the almost disco beat adds a new, warmer dimension to it. Williamson continues to rap with remarkable precision, and is accompanied by actress Gwendoline Christie (“Severance,” “Game of Thrones”) and Big Special, who take on the role of his inner voices. The calm vocals contrast here with Christie's exuberant expression, emphasizing the tension between the desire for a “good life” and self-destruction.

Work in studios such as Abbey Road and Invada in Bristol — alongside their permanent base in Nottingham — also influenced the sound of the album. The new equipment and approach allowed Fearn to focus more on the production, rather than the technical aspects of the recordings, which opened up new possibilities.

Inspired by this change, Williamson began writing new songs, drawing from bands such as The Specials and The Selector — and, as he admits, from his own emotions.

“I cry more often now—not too much, but that changes everything,” she says. “I was on vacation recently and I cried at a meal because I was happy. It's weird, but it helped me finally connect with myself, with my own emotions.”

As a result, we get an album that is faithful to the aesthetics of Sleaford Mods, and at the same time expands their sound to date. Guest appearances include Aldous Harding, Sue Tompkins and Liam Bailey, as well as rapper Snowy, each bringing something unique.

As Williamson concludes:
“I don't want to pat myself on the back when the world is falling apart, but I'm really proud of The Demise Of Planet X. It's not something that hits you in the face right away — you have to look at the details.”

With musical subtlety and penetrating analysis of the present — from politics to the darkest corners of the human psyche — Sleaford Mods have created an album that moves and stays with the listener... until the end of the world, whenever it happens.
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Sleaford Mods - “The Demise Of Planet X”
1 November 2026, Klub Stodoła
10 Batorego Street, Warsaw
Tickets available at the box office of the Stodoła Club and online sales:
www.ticketclub.pl

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