Sleaford Mods are releasing a special ‘dark themed’ video of new single “The Good Life” featuring Gwendoline Christie for Halloween . The track is off the band’s band’s forthcoming album The Demise Of Planet X, available January 16 via Rough Trade Records. The album follows Sleaford Mods’ 2023 UK GRIM, The band will play shows across the UK and Ireland which takes place in February and March next year.

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 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 Jason 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 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.

Alongside ‘The Good Life’, the album features cliche-bursting 2025 single Megaton, Elitest G.O.A.T. with its light-as-cloud guest vocals from Aldous Harding, the reflective, toxic masculinity pricking Bad Santa and the Magic Roundabout-infused bouncy rap of the title track.

Nottingham singer-songwriter Liam Bailey adds a soulful lament to world-weary MAGA takedown Flood The Zone; grime rapper Snowy drops decisive bars on Kill List’s horror hip hop (its central imagery inspired by Ben Wheatley’s film of the same), while for No Touch Salford Mods managed to lure Sue Tompkins from the much-missed Life Without Buildings back into the studio. Duetting with Williamson, the pair’s distinctly human voices intertwine over a slinky bass and music box keyboard motif.

Sleaford Mods
The Demise of Planet X
Rough Trade Records

The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie + Big Special)
Double Diamond
Elitest G.O.A.T. (feat. Aldous Harding)
Megaton
No Touch (feat. Sue Tompkins)
Bad Santa
The Demise Of Planet X
Don Draper
Gina Was
Shoving the Images
Flood the Zone (feat. Liam Bailey)
Kill List (feat. Snowy)
The Unwrap

Sleaford Mods 2026 UK/IE Tour Dates:

February 6 – Glasgow @ Barrowland Ballroom
February 7 – Manchester @ Academy
February 12 – Leeds @ O2 Academy
February 13 – Liverpool @ O2 Academy
February 14 – Cardiff @ Great Hall
February 19 – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre
February 20 – Belfast @ Limelight
February 21 – Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
February 26 – Oxford @ O2 Academy
February 27 – Nottingham @ Rock City
February 28 – Nottingham @ Rock City
March 5 – Bristol @ Beacon
March 6 – Brighton @ Dome
March 7 – London @ O2 Academy Brixton

pre-order The Demise Of Planet X by Sleaford Mods HERE