Mumford & Sons have announced that they are in “the final stages” of their new album, following the 2009 debut album Sigh No More. Ben Lovett, multi-intsrumentalist from the band, spoke to MTV News saying: “We are in the final stages, we’re not finished, we don’t quite know the exact tracklisting. We have kind...
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A film about Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show’s railroad trip across America will be debuted at SXSW. Big Easy Express documents the Railroad Revival Tour the bands embarked on in April last year. Playing sold out shows in 6 cities – from San Francisco to...
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Mumford & Sons' Ted Dwane: "Our new album is doom folk, like Black Sabbath meets Nick Drake"
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Arcade Fire played a pleasing smattering of hits, the best for me being ‘Roccoco’ (lots of good ooh-ing from the crowd), ‘Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)’, which made me a bit teary, ‘Haiti’, ‘Intervention’, ‘We Used To Wait’, ‘Keep The Car Running’ and ‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’. The band have written so many good songs,...
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It’s been an amazing year for Mumford & Sons. Over a million copies of Sigh No More have been sold. They’ve received Grammy Award nominations and played live on US network televsion with Bob Dylan. So how do you follow that? With a fundraiser for non-league football club AFC Wimbledon, obviously. The band have...
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A new favourite of ours here at FFS HQ, Emily & the Woods is releasing her second EP ‘Eye to Eye’ on May 4th with a launch party at The North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road. While you wait for the EP, here’s the sweet new video for ‘Steal His Heart’, which features...
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Some kind soul (/pirate) has put the Mumford & Sons limited edition EP that they recorded as The Wedding Band up on YouTube. It features the Mumford boys wuth Nick Etwell, Callum Lindsay, Jesse Quin, Adam Stockdale and David Williamson. Listen here. >> Mumford & Sons website | Jesse Quin’s band Mt. Desolation ....
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Rachel Sermanni has just finished a tour of the Highlands supporting Mumford & Sons and is currently in Austin, Texas where she’s performing at SXSW. FFS spoke to her ahead of her gig at the Old Queen’s Head in London last month. Sermanni’s smoky vocals and effortless stage presence belie her young age. She...
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In September 2008, FFS interviewed Mumford and Sons ahead of their Blue Flowers gig at the George IV in Chiswick – where Laura Marling, Jay Jay Pistolet, Noah and the Whale played surprise sets
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Communion – run by Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett and Cherbourg alum Kev Jones – have teamed up with the NME to promote a special folk show at London’s Dingwalls. Headliners Mumford & Sons will be joined by Anna Calvi (read our review of her brilliant album), Marcus Foster and new FFS favourite Rachel...
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