![]() , I wanted to bring across the claustrophobia, the disappointment.” The school looked like the houses we were born in. There were a lot of domestic problems with other families. “My parents were dead young,” he remembers, “and you can forgive them for making mistakes, but it was quite bleak. Williamson, now 50, grew up on an estate in the small town of Grantham, Lincolnshire. This began to influence his writing for the Nottingham post-punk duo’s upcoming sixth album, ‘Spare Ribs’: “I became quite inward I started thinking about me, my childhood, my family, my upbringing.” Then I’m stuck in a bedroom with spina bifida and my wife’s concerned it might not get better.” Two months before that I was playing sold out shows, having smoke blown up my arse every single day, being told I was the saviour of this, that and the other. He had to sleep alone in his spare room for the sake of his wife: “It was quite bleak. READ MORE: Sleaford Mods – ‘Spare Ribs’ review: a bracing dose of reality and their best album yetĪfterwards, the pain was so agonising that he spent his days on intense painkillers and was waking up almost hourly at night. After giving up drugs and alcohol a few years ago, he’d become “addicted to the gym,” as he puts it, “which is certainly better than taking loads of cocaine,” but with fitness centres closed indefinitely and under mounting pandemic stress, he began working out obsessively at home: “I overdid it, pulled something, and was out for the count.” He had badly aggravated existing back problems caused by his having spina bifida as a child, which led to chronic pain until he had a major operation aged 12. ![]() A few weeks into the UK’s first coronavirus lockdown, Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson suffered a serious injury.
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