The ‘Megaton’ seven-inch edition featuring the track ‘Give ‘Em What They Want’ as its B-side is out now. Available on red vinyl from the band and Rough Trade Records’ web store, on blue from indie record shops and on general sale on black wax.
Continuing the duo’s on-going collaboration with the charity War Child, all proceeds from the release will be donated to support War Child’s life-changing work with children affected by conflict.
Sleaford Mods have also released a special ‘dark themed’ video of new single ‘The Good Life’ earlier this week, for Halloween.
Directed by British director Ben Wheatley (The Kill List/A Field In England/Bulk) who also shot the bold original version, the blackout edition is a suitably dark reshoot of the one-take performance to celebrate this spooky season.
Taken from the band’s forthcoming album The Demise Of Planet X, which is released on 16 January, ‘The Good Life’ features Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson collaborating with East Midlands band Big Special and actress Gwendoline Christie.
‘The Good Life’ marks Christie’s musical debut after she became friends with Sleaford Mods, and the Severance, Star Wars and Game Of Thrones star has spoken for the first about the experience of recording with the band at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios to accompany the release of the ‘dark themed’ video.
“Sleaford Mods have been the soundtrack to some of the peaks of my existence,” Christie declares.
“They have accompanied me through the pains and ecstasies of life, providing essential galvanising force for creativity and precious antidote to life’s most punishing moments. They are a band that are very close to my heart due to their complete strangeness, pump, and the often cry that ‘they shouldn’t work, but do’. I love an unconventional success.”
She adds: “An impossible fantasy of mine was to be on a Sleaford Mods record a ‘It’ll never happen, but just imagine if it did’ notion. Cue Eden-like stardust sprinkled across my eyes. Life’s mundanity and frustration has often been relieved by this heavenly thought. So after we exchanged the hand of friendship and Jason told me he’d written a part for me on The Good Life. I thought I might explode with joy! Few things have made me happier than this.”
“We talked for about an hour and a half when Gwendoline first arrived at the studio, she's such an engaging, interesting person,” continues Sleaford Mods frontman Williamson of the genesis of their collaboration. “We’d had the outline of The Good Life for a while, but it just wasn't working. I’d done my verses about five times. Then we got the Big Special who are brilliant, but our manager thought it needed another voice and that was around the time that Gwendoline and I first started talking online, so it was really serendipitous.”
The Halloween-appropriate version of Ben Wheatley’s video can be watched now, while ‘The Good Life’ itself is an apt harbinger for the 2026 due The Demise Of Planet X, which brings new depths, atmospheres, emotions and thought to Sleaford Mods’ unique blend of minimal electronics and wry, precision punk outrage.
Listen / purchase ‘Megaton’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save The Demise Of Planet X here.
Sat 11 Apr, 2026 – Perth FAC Front Lawn
Tue 14 Apr, 2026 – Melbourne Forum
Fri 17 Apr, 2026 – Sydney Enmore Theatre
Sun 19 Apr, 2026 – Adelaide Hindley St Music Hall
Tue 21 Apr, 2026 – Brisbane Tivoli
Thu 23 Apr, 2026 – Wellington Meow Nui
Sat 25 Apr, 2026 – Auckland Powerstation
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