NEWS 2020/12/03
Politically-charged electronic duo Sleaford Mods have released a new single and video, “Shortcummings”, from their upcoming album Spare Ribs, out January 15, 2021 via Rough Trade Records. The song references the former Chief Advisor to the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, who led the 2016 referendum campaign for Britain to leave the EU. Frontman Jason Williamson says: “I wrote the lyrics to ‘Shortcummings’ in late 2019 after becoming annoyed by Dominic Cummings’ increased unelected presence. The arrogance of the privileged generally leads to short, short short, short, short cummings in a momentary centre stage at the cost of untold human misery and exploitation of public money. In the case of Cummings, he knows exactly what he lost when he walked out of No....