6. Two Lone SwordsmenFrom the Double Gone Chapel
This was the basis for the baseline in Sleaford Mods, fucking great stuff. Stuff like ‘The Lurch’. They did a cover of the Gun Club’s ‘Sex Beat’, that’s great. Most of Weatherall’s work is bass heavy, it’s solo stuff. Wrong Meeting, the album that came after this, that’s bass-led. There’s a rockabilly feel to it. But with From The Double Gone Chapel it’s 80s synths, bass, car alarms.
The inner sleeve, which is just a coffee stain and a packet of Marlboro Lights next to it, that really influenced me. Same with Mike Skinner’s sleeve where he’s just sat in his flat with a pint, it’s just fucking brilliant. That’s how it is, he’s not pretending to be anything. Those things merge, all of it is a big melting pot.
I think I’ve hit it good with the albums that I have chosen for you as far as my contribution to Sleaford Mods. I mean, Andrew, whatever he makes, I go with. Initially, when we started doing Wank, the album before Austerity Dogs, I would have said to Andrew that I want a big heavy bass and I want a dusty Wu Tang thing. He took that on board and made it his own, then he would bring these slices of music to me and I thought the sound wasn’t something I’d really go for, but it was quite good.
I don’t tell him anything any more, he just gets on with it. This the band I’ve been trying so hard to get into. I think we’ve been very lucky, regardless of the hard work and the shit me and Andrew went through, it was luck as well. I feel quite grateful that it happened to us.
