Interview - Jason Williamson

There’s no doubt about it, 2025 has been yet another tough year, socially and politically.

Despite the Labour Party having been in power for less than 18 months (surely a fraction of the time required to undo 14 years of neglect and rampant opportunism), there is a feeling that things in the UK are getting worse still, not helped by events over the Atlantic, in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

There’s undoubtedly a despondency in the air as the seeds of the 2010s bloom into global insecurity.

While never the most optimistic of outfits, Sleaford Mods have noticed, and it informs much of their new album The Demise Of Planet X, which is themed around a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Unfortunately, Jason Williamson doesn’t feel the album is particularly metaphorical.

“We’re in it, aren’t we? This is it,” he ponders while speaking to Live4ever. “I often wonder what it was like in the 1920s, where people started to feel this dread.”

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