Another Grantham musician starring at Glastonbury

Grantham will have at least two stars appearing at Glastonbury this weekend.

We have already told you about 19-year-old emerging superstar Holly Humberstone.

It is her biggest gig to date.

And on Saturday, playing at the Worthy Farm site’s Shangri-La, is Jason Williamson, one half of the highly acclaimed Sleaford Mods.

The duo’s set kicks off at 10.30pm this Saturday (June 29) inside the festival’s after-hours nirvana.

Jason (49) has music in his genes.

His father Brian Bradley, and Uncle Tony were for many years part of one of Grantham’s most popular bands, The Kobalts.

Grantham born and bred, he went to first to Belton Lane Primary School, then to St Wulfram’s and finally Grantham College to study music and Drama.

He had various jobs, from the kitchen of Little Chef at Colsterworth, to a benefits officer at Nottingham, where he now lives with his wife and daughter.

He worked for a spell at Grantham’s Moy Park factory but was sacked after being spotted smoking in the car park.

He auditioned all over the country for drama but eventually music became his forte had various bands but has now he has found success as half of the hip-hop duo, Sleaford Mods.

Williamson’s progress through his 20s and 30s was not easy. He spent nine abortive months trying to find musical soulmates in San Francisco, came home and played guitar and sang in a succession of bands, and ended up trying to ride the wave of late-period Britpop in a group who were almost called Sunday Dinner, before settling on Meat Pie. Their aim was to somehow combine Small Faces and Guns N’ Roses, but cocaine did for them.

Sleaford Mods started out sometime during 2006 while Jason was living in Nottingham. Born out of part frustration and part accident, it quickly found its feet as an aggressive verbal onslaught on all that is contrived and connected to the day-to-day hammer of low paid employment and domestic siutations arising from that trap.

After a year of working ideas out in both the studio and in live performances, Williamson moved south and took the cause to London for a couple of years and trod the boards there for a couple of years, before returning to Nottingham in 2009.

Soon after that return he met Andrew Fearn and the Sleaford Mods became a duo.

on the lyrics, while Andrew created numerous tunes for Jason to vent his spleen over.

Sleaford Mods  appeared at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival and have been featured on Later with Jools Holland.