We turn to rock ‘n’ roll for affirmation, empowerment, and survival. Men now, with responsibilities far removed from the day job, but men who feel at their most comfortable with who they’d become. Helmed by producer Paul Epworth, it’s a record finding Mumford & Sons at their most adventurous. In 2018, Mumford & Sons released their substantial fourth album, Delta. Gentlemen of the Road their own community-minded, self-curated festivals. Britain’s most likely to became Britain’s already have.īreathe in, let’s go: Number 1 albums around the world. But if we told you that just a couple of very short years later Mumford & Sons were to return to Glastonbury to headline its prestigious Pyramid Stage? Well, that should say it all. To summarise the next decade in a few short sentences is to do the band a huge disservice to what is broadly considered a global phenomenon.
It was a show that typically laid down another stone from which to step a heaving John Peel tent, steam teeming from those vinyl walls and from the stage, and from the crowd.
When Marcus Mumford once spoke of putting college studies on the back burner to focus on ‘being a band’ whilst tearing up a staircase at the band’s old rehearsal rooms by London Bridge, it was a day or two ahead of the band’s first Glastonbury performance. Leaving their hearts up on those stages, and having won the hearts of all those in the crowd, the growing fervour around Mumford & Sons became inescapable. Stood in formation across the front of the stage, like a solid back four that nobody’s finding gaps in, they clasped those instruments like their lives depended on it. You can’t get everything right.īut there was plenty they did get right. They called their band Mumford & Sons, and have jokingly regretted it ever since.
It was a happy accident, with nothing unusual about how they formed shared musical interests, an interest to both make and perform music whatever the occasion, and this comparatively unique passion for community and collaboration. Some fourteen years ago, a few young men from London formed a band.
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