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.WebsiteMembers.Mumford & Sons are a British band formed in 2007. The band consists of (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), (vocals, keyboard, piano, synthesizer), (vocals, electric guitar, ) and (vocals, bass guitar, ).Mumford & Sons have released four studio albums: (2009), (2012), (2015) and (2018). Their debut Sigh No More peaked at number two on the and the in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind both debuting at number one in the UK and US, the former becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at in 2013. The band has also issued three live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011), The Road to Red Rocks (2012) and Live from South Africa: Dust and Thunder (2017).The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the for in 2011, a nomination and six overall nominations.

The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with and led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for. The band also won the Brit Award for in 2013. Contents.History Early years (2007–2009) Mumford & Sons were formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists,.

Band members play acoustic guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, and traditional folk instruments such as,. The band name originates from Marcus Mumford being the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances.

Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of an 'antiquated family business name'.A handful of similar bands were increasing their visibility in around the same time, giving rise to the label 'West London folk scene'. Mumford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration—Mumford & Sons and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the same general area at the time.

In an interview with the, Marcus Mumford said, 'It's not folk really. Well, some of it is, and it's certainly not a scene.

Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred-mile radius and put it in a box to sell it as a package. It's a community, not a scene.

It's not exclusive.' Having developed in the same musical and cultural environment, Mumford & Sons' sound has been compared to that of artists such as, and, whose backing band had included Marshall, Mumford, and Dwane.In early 2008, the band began working with manager Adam Tudhope, who, as part of management company Everybody's, also represents and Laura Marling. It was through Tudhope's connection that Mumford & Sons were exposed to their future A&R at Island, Louis Bloom, who began monitoring the band.

Bloom told that they were still at a fledgling state and not yet ready for a label deal: 'There was no one there for it, just a few friends, and they needed time to develop. Over the next six months I kept going to see them and they were literally picking up fans every time.' In February 2008, the band completed an extensive UK tour with support from, and others. June 2008 marked the band's first appearance at the. They also toured Australia with Laura Marling, whose disinclination to interact with audiences encouraged Mumford into the spotlight.

The experience helped inform his attitude towards Mumford & Sons audiences, which is to interact frequently and to try to create a comfortable, casual atmosphere. Mumford & Sons' first project was an EP entitled Love Your Ground which took a year to complete and was released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records. Sigh No More (2009–2012) Throughout 2008 and into 2009, Mumford & Sons performed in small to moderate venues in the UK and US, exposing audiences to Love Your Ground tracks and other material that would eventually become. The band finally recorded Sigh No More with, who had produced albums with artists such as.

At the time, band members did not even own their own instruments—Dravs initially turned them away when they showed up at the recording sessions empty-handed. The only track from Love Your Ground to be included on Sigh No More was '. The band told the Herald Sun that they self-financed the album to avoid the artistic and technical compromises that sometimes befall studio-financed projects. They toured again in support of Laura Marling in 2009, and Mumford & Sons were contributing musicians to her 2010 album. Mumford & Sons performing at Dot to Dot Festival in on 23 May 2009In August 2009, Mumford & Sons signed a licensing deal to in the UK, to in Australia and New Zealand, to in North America and in the rest of the world, and through its own label Gentlemen of the Road. Dew Process boss signed the band after witnessing a US performance in 2009 and appreciating their 'honest' approach and unique sound.

Their debut album was released on 5 October 2009 with 'Little Lion Man' as the lead single.of named 'Little Lion Man' his record of the week, and in another interview with the band, Berry said 'Screw 'of the week', it's my favourite track of the year.' DJ made 'Little Lion Man' his 'Reaction Record' on 27 July 2009, before naming it the 'Hottest Record in the World' the following evening.In their first performance on US network television, the band played 'Little Lion Man' on CBS's on 17 February 2010. This appearance was followed by a performance of ' on on 26 February 2010. Mumford & Sons have been commercially successful in Australia and New Zealand. By January 2010, 'Little Lion Man' topped the list for all of 2009, with its margin of victory the largest in the history of the chart.

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In November 2010, the band won an ARIA Music Award for Most Popular International Artist. Sigh No More first reached number 9 on the New Zealand charts in October 2010, and subsequently topped the chart in January 2011 due to the popularity of the singles from the album.In a March 2010 interview, announced that Mumford & Sons would be appearing on his forthcoming collaborations album. Marcus Mumford confirmed this in an interview the same month, stating, 'I am more excited about that than I have been about anything before in my life'.

Mumford & Sons performed the track 'Days/This Time Tomorrow' along with Davies on 12 February 2010 on on the BBC. Marcus Mumford and Winston Marshall on stage in Brighton, 4 October 2010In December 2010, Mumford & Sons earned Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song ('Little Lion Man'). While they did not go on to win an award, the band performed their single 'The Cave' at the Grammy ceremony. The performance earned positive media attention and boosted visibility for Sigh No More—US sales increased by 99% in the period following the ceremony in February 2011.

The album subsequently peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US.On 7 December 2010, in collaboration with and, Mumford & Sons released an EP album recorded in Delhi, India. The album was recorded in a makeshift studio with traditional Rajasthani musicians and features four collaborations, including multicultural mash-ups of Marling's 'Devil's Spoke' and Mumford & Sons' 'To Darkness.' Sigh No More is 4x Platinum in the UK, and 2x Platinum in the US.The band continued to grow in popularity in 2011, winning several major awards and headlining larger shows and festivals.

In February 2011, they received a for their international success. They received a Brit Award for British Album of the Year with Sigh No More and performed 'Timshel' at the ceremony. UK sales of the album subsequently increased by 266 percent. While touring the United States in early 2011, the band began writing songs for the follow-up album.

Keyboardist Ben Lovett credited the creative atmosphere of Nashville, Tennessee with easing the songwriting process. While performing in Kansas City, Missouri on 3 June, the first stop of their US tour, the band announced they had been recording a new album, initially set to be released in late 2011. They then performed several new tracks from the forthcoming album, the title of which was not revealed.In April 2011, the group joined and on the inaugural, which was inspired by the tour across Canada in 1970 that included,. Travelling exclusively in vintage rail cars, the three bands performed in six 'unique outdoor locations' over the course of a week starting in.

Ketch Secor of Old Crow told that 'It’s like we left all our baggage at home and just brought our instruments,' often writing new songs while on the train. 'We were just on these old rattling rails. It was a railroad that would have made and tip their hats and blow their whistles,' he says.

They appear in the musical documentary, directed by Emmett Malloy, being made of the trip which premiered March 2012 at the (SXSW Film) in —winning the Headliner Audience Award. The film went on to win 'Best Long Form Video' at the 2013 Grammy Awards.Mumford & Sons played at the on Friday 24 June 2011, and then embarked on a North American tour on which they frequently performed songs from the upcoming album. They recorded two songs for 's adaptation of, one of which (entitled 'Enemy') is featured during the closing credits. In June 2012, Mumford & Sons contributed the song 'Learn Me Right' with to the film. Babel (2012–2013) Mumford & Sons released their second studio album on 24 September 2012, with a track listing of 12 songs, and a deluxe edition containing three exclusive songs.

The lead single ' premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 7 August. On 29 August 2012, Mumford & Sons recorded their concert at in Colorado. The Concert was later released on DVD, Vinyl and on iTunes as 'Road to Red Rocks'.

The performance of 'I Will Wait' from the concert was released ahead of the DVD on 9 September as the band's official video for the song. On 22 September 2012, the band performed two songs from the new album, 'I Will Wait' and 'Below My Feet', on. Mumford & Sons performing at the held at the in London, 20 February 2013Babel debuted at number one on the and the US. It became the fastest selling album of 2012 in the UK, selling over 158,000 copies in its first week, and was the biggest selling debut of any album in 2012 in the US, selling 600,000 in its first week, and over a million worldwide. In December 2012, Winston Marshall told that the band was rehearsing and writing for their next album.The first phase of a in support of Babel was released in November 2012. Their Gentlemen of the Road tour continued through 2013.

After performing two shows on 8 & 9 June 2013 at the in, bassist Ted Dwane checked into a hospital the next day. Surgeons found a on the surface of his brain and performed surgery to remove it.

Heeding medical advice to aid Dwane's recovery, the band cancelled the rest of its Summer Stampede Tour, including performances at the and returned to the UK. Dwane's surgery was successful, and his recovery was such that the band were able to headline the 2013 on 30 June, with the band receiving acclaim for their performance.After first including select stopover cities in their 2012 Tour, the band again selected five cities in Canada, the UK and US to host a two-day festival with shows on multiple stages as well as various other activities and performances.

The first stopover of the 2013 Gentleman of the Road tour was in, East Sussex, from 19 to 20 July. Next was from 23 to 24 August, followed by from 30 to 31 August. The band rounded out their tour with stopovers in Guthrie, Oklahoma on 6 and 7 September and finally St. Augustine, Florida on 13 and 14 September.

The Vaccines, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Vampire Weekend, Old Crow Medicine Show, Yacht Club DJs, Alabama Shakes and various other bands also performed at many of the stopovers throughout the tour.After the end of the Babel tour, Mumford and Sons took a five-month break before returning to the studio in February 2014 to start work on their third album. Wilder Mind (2015–2017) On 27 February 2015, the band released a short video teasing new live material, promising a further announcement on 2 March 2015. It was revealed on 2 March 2015 that the third studio album from the band will be entitled and will be released on 4 May 2015, with the first single being released to radio stations on 9 March and available to download straight after. The announcement also confirmed a new series of Gentleman of the Road Stopovers festivals for Summer 2015.Mumford & Sons made their live return at the 375 capacity venue in Hackney, London on 10 March 2015 with an intimate show for family and friends.

The band played again to fans on the following two nights, debuting songs from Wilder Mind. The second single from Wilder Mind, ' premiered on on 9 April 2015, and was made available to download straight after, with the official audio being uploaded to the band's YouTube channel. The official video, a live video of the band performing the song, was uploaded to YouTube on 13 April 2015.Mumford & Sons confirmed their return on 14 January 2015 with the announcement of a headline performance at the 2015. Mumford and Sons headlined the in 2015. In the following weeks, many other dates were added to their 2015 UK & Ireland tour.On 30 April 2015, the band announced an intimate show at Brighton Corn Exchange exclusively to members of their mailing list. The gig took place on 1 May 2015.

Mumford & Sons promoted their new album with several TV appearances and radio broadcasts, including a special for, on NBC, on the BBC the, and live streamed concerts for. On 13 April 2015, the band announced a 16-date North America tour in-between summer festival dates; the tour started on 2 June 2015 in Brooklyn, New York.For on 18 April 2015, the band released the coordinates of stores where fans could attend to listen to Wilder Mind in full on vinyl record, over two weeks before its release. The band also released a limited edition 7' record of 'Believe'/'The Wolf' for the event.Wilder Mind was released 4 May 2015. Wilder Mind debuted at number one in the UK, the US and Australia.On 17 June 2016, Mumford & Sons released an EP titled. Delta (2018–present) On 20 September 2018, the band released a new single, ', introducing their new album titled on. The second single, ', was released on 25 October.Delta was released on 16 November 2018, with appearances from, Yebba,.

The LP was produced by, and was recorded mainly at in London. Musical style and development. The band members play multiple instruments in live performances. Here Marcus Mumford sits at a drum kit.Mumford & Sons have been described by The Hollywood Reporter and as a band.

They began by using and instrumentation, with the core instruments of acoustic guitar, banjo, piano and a double bass, played with a rhythmic style based in and folk. In the documentary Big Easy Express, Marcus Mumford recognises the influence: 'I first heard Old Crow’s music when I was, like, 16, 17, and that really got me into, like, folk music, bluegrass. I mean, I’d listened to a lot of Dylan, but I hadn’t really ventured into the country world so much.

So Old Crow were the band that made me fall in love with country music.' Mumford acknowledges that 'the band inspired them to pick up the banjo and start their now famous country nights in London.'

Ketch Secor, Old Crow front-man, concurs: 'Those boys took the message and ran with it.' Was 'among the gateway artists who helped Mumford and bandmates Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall discover their love for American roots music. It started with the. That eventually led them to the Old Crow Medicine Show and then deep immersion in old-timey sounds from America's long-neglected past.' Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, its debut album name deriving from 's. The track 'Sigh No More' includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend, For man is a giddy thing, and One foot in sea and one on shore.

The title of the song 'Roll Away Your Stone' is an allusion to; the song includes the line Stars hide your fires/ And these here are my desires which borrows and pares down Macbeth's line in act 1, scene 4: Stars, hide your fires,/ Let not light see my black and deep desires. Additionally, 'The Cave' includes several references to, in particular the sirens that Odysseus encounters on his journey home.

The song also contains many references to 's book, St. Francis of Assisi, in which Chesterton uses as a way of explaining how views the world from God's perspective.

'Little Lion Man' appears to be a retelling in dramatic monologue form of Chretien de Troyes', which is the story of a knight who goes mad after betraying a promise to his wife to return to her. Both 'Timshel' and 'Dust Bowl Dance' draw heavily from the novels, and.The band's change in sound on their third album was described by Lovett as a 'natural departure.'

At the end of the Babel tour Winston Marshall traded his banjo for electric guitar in sound checks and Mumford started playing more drums as the band jammed on heavy instrumentals and even some Radiohead tunes. Banjo does not feature on the record, an instrument that had become synonymous with the band.

Reported that the band's sound is 'More expansive than ever and decidedly heavier, thanks to the shift in instrumentation.' The group also employed a full drumkit instead of kick drum.

'We've had our standard line-up of instruments for the last six years and we felt like that was our palette, but we started picking up other stuff,' said Lovett. 'It's a very natural departure from some of that rootsier stuff.' Lovett told that working with for Wilder Mind was part of trying something new. 'We felt a need for change.

Not from Markus Dravs, but he was so closely attached to those first two records that as we had taken that time off, we wanted to try doing something new. It felt like, if we do our third record with Markus, does that mean we do our ninth and 10th records with Markus?

At some point you have to try different things, as we collectively felt like it was time to try other stuff. Markus knows that we might well make the next record with him. We definitely haven't broken up with Dravs, we're just playing the field!' Gentlemen of the Road In 2009, the band founded Gentlemen of the Road, a live promotions company, record label and organiser of the global series of Stopover Festivals. These festivals tend to take place in towns and villages not normally toured in by bands or singers in an effort to bring money to the place and help businesses there. The band handpicks the supporting acts which play for the Stopover Festivals. These include bands such as, and, amongst others.

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