{"id":296246,"date":"2025-11-20T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:04:09","slug":"idles-sleaford-mods-blokes-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296246\/","title":{"rendered":"IDLES &#038; Sleaford Mods Blokes Make Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Jason Williamson\u00a0of Sleaford Mods initiated beef with fellow UK rockers IDLES by saying &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2032070\/sleaford-mods-idles-class-appropriation\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">they were appropriating, to a certain degree, a working class voice<\/a>.&#8221; Joe Talbot responded shortly after, wondering, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/idles-interview-sleaford-mods-fight-working-class-austerity-a8849121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">What the fuck is wrong with the guy?<\/a>&#8221; Now, the bands have made amends.<\/p>\n<p>Talbot invited Williamson onto his Oh Gatekeeper\u00a0podcast and introduced him by quipping that he was &#8220;on a Zoom with my arch-nemesis,&#8221; to which Williamson replied, &#8220;Well fuck you for inviting me on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the hour-long episode, the pair discussed their inspirations, struggles, and even their working-class roots. Talbot referred to Williamson as &#8220;an old and new friend.&#8221; Sleaford Mods release their new album <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2327135\/sleaford-mods-announce-new-album-the-demise-of-planet-x-hear-the-good-life-feat-gwendoline-christie-big-special\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Demise Of Planet X<\/a> this Friday. Check out the wholesome podcast episode below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2019, Jason Williamson\u00a0of Sleaford Mods initiated beef with fellow UK rockers IDLES by saying &#8220;they were appropriating,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-296246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}