Sleaford Mods — Arena Wien, November 3
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- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 3 November 2026
- Where
- Arena Wien, Baumgasse 80, 1030 Wien — the 3rd
- Price
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- Indoor
- Post-punk
- Electronic
- English-language
- Arena Wien
- November 3
Sleaford Mods are Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn — a two-piece from Nottingham who have spent the last fifteen years making the most politically direct and formally uncompromising music in contemporary British post-punk. The formula is simple: electronic beats, two-minute blasts, Williamson's working-class fury delivered with the deadpan precision of someone who has run out of patience. No guitar. No apology. No space for misunderstanding.
The work is relentlessly political — not in the sense of slogans or manifestos, but in the specificity of what they're angry about. Rent. Work. The texture of precarity in Britain. The way language itself becomes a weapon when you're not supposed to have one. They sound like they're running out of time and they're not interested in making it easy.
Why Arena Wien
This is a band that sells out venues. The Arena Wien is the right room — mid-size, standing room, the kind of crowd that doesn't need the music explained to them. You'll be in a room with people who came for the same reason: the sharpness, the refusal to soften, the sense that something real is happening. It's not a spectacle. It's a room full of people who recognize themselves in the anger.
The show is November 3 at 20:00. Tickets through Live Nation — they move fast.
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