SLEAFORD MODS share ‘dark themed’ video for The Good Life

Sleaford Mods have released via Rough Trade Records, a special ‘dark themed’ video of new single ‘The Good Life’ especially for Halloween in the UK .

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.

‘The Good Life’ marks Gwendoline 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.

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.”

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Sleaford Mods 2026 Australian & New Zealand Tour

Saturday Apr 11, 2026 – Perth FAC Front Lawn [tickets]
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026 – Melbourne Forum [tickets]
Friday Apr 17, 2026 – Sydney Enmore Theatre [tickets]
Sunday Apr 19, 2026 – Adelaide Hindley St Music Hall [tickets]
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026 – Brisbane Tivoli [tickets]
Thursday Apr 23, 2026 – Wellington Meow Nui [tickets]
Saturday Apr 25, 2026 – Auckland Powerstation [tickets]

General sale starts at 12pm NZDT on Fri 17 Oct
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