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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