As the Glastonbury Festival weekend garners further momentum, Nottingham’s acclaimed post-punk duo Sleaford Mods took to the stage but were left unamused by the crowd.
Celebrating their extensive career, Sleaford Mods delivered an intense set on the Woodsies stage on Saturday evening, which received a positive reception from their fans. However, the band did not view it in the same light.
Vocalist Jason Williamson, who was annoyed by the less-than-impressive numbers in the audience during their slot, hit out at the festival for the arrangement. “There’s too many fucking people here. Not at our gig, I might add,” he said. “We played this stage ten years ago, and it’s still the fucking same. Glastonbury, fuck off.”
Since their set clashed with those from The Streets and Orbital, the scheduling might have had a big role to play in that. Furthermore, with Coldplay set to play on the Pyramid Stage later that evening, many of those at the festival had already flocked to see the Chris Martin-fronted band.
I’m trying to imagine the crossover between folks who would watch Sleaford Mods, and those that can tolerate Coldplay.
It’s quite funny to picture that Venn diagram but it is often about the wider scheduling - at the end of the night you often have to just stay where you are for the last few acts. So it might not be the Coldplay crossover but the preceding acts on each stage.
Sometimes (?), missing Coldplay isn’t a negative.
I don’t know if this is just them being punk, but imagine the ego to be invited back to a festival and then telling them to fuck off because you didn’t get a big enough crowd. Happy to be corrected if anyone’s got more info, but they sound like a pair of wankers.
I suspect it’s a) them being punk and b) one of a number of people complaining about scheduling and stage assignment (Avril Lavigne was likely on too small a stage for the demand).
