‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life

<p>The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of being homeless. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive show</p><p>In the late 1980s, fresh from being kicked out of school, Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson dreamed of becoming an actor. He was looking for a way to escape the narrow-minded confines of his home town, Grantham – and treading the boards seemed like the best possible way.</p><p>“Essentially I just wanted to be famous,” he says now, “but then I started to fall in love with the process of it all.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/sep/22/sleaford-mods-jason-williamson-acting-edgecity-gobscure">Continue reading...</a>