“Awake My Soul” | Mumford & Sons | Hurricane Festival 2012 Highlights
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From the Mumford & Sons official website:
It’s been a while since Mumford & Sons played a big ol’ London show. So we are very pleased and excited – as are the band of course – to announce that they will be returning to the Roundhouse on 24th September to play this year’s iTunes Festival.
You can apply for the free ticket lottery now at www.itunesfestival.com/gb/win.
Good luck and hope to see you there!
M&S HQ x
July 30 2012, 2:56 PM ET
by David Marchese
From spin.com:
Over the past few years, while Mumford & Sons were rocketing from playing small, hushed clubs on the London folk circuit to stamping their feet on the main stages at the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals, they learned something about how to make a record. “Touring so much and playing so many different kinds of places, especially big ones, affected how we hear ourselves as a band,” says Mumford vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ben Lovett, speaking about the quartet’s upcoming sophomore album, Babel (Glassnote), out September 25. “The dynamics of the new album are totally influenced by understanding what works live and what doesn’t. The trick is to make the intimate moments more intimate and the big moments bigger. That wasn’t something we understood when we made [2009’s debut full-length] ”Sigh No More.”
Recorded last winter with Sigh producer Markus Dravs, Babel, explains Lovett, is more of a band album than its predecessor. “Another big step up for us with this one is that it was much more collaborative,” he says. “It wasn’t me or one of the other guys coming in with a whole song finished and saying ‘Here it is.’ It was more a case of someone coming in with an idea for a song and saying to the other guys, ‘Can you help me with it?’ That happened because we’ve gotten so comfortable playing together as a unit.”
Though Lovett says the band is eager to get back on the road and start playing the new album for fans, he’s not so keen on the extra-musical aspects of having a new release. “It took quite a bit of getting used to having to explain your music all the time,” he says. “It’s unnatural to analyze yourself as much as we were being asked to do with all the attention we’ve had since our first album came out. When someone asks you about whether or not you’re responsible for a resurgence in acoustic music — we didn’t start a band to answer those kinds of questions.” Which might be why Lovett says, “I can’t really describe specific songs; I think the album speaks for itself” when asked for standouts from Babel. ”The best I can really say is that we made an album that is as honest about who we are as we can be.”
He’s more chatty when it comes to the band’s upcoming tour dates, which kick off August 1 with a show in Hoboken, New Jersey. “The magnetic pull of the road is still very strong with us,” Lovett says. “We can’t wait to be back out there. That’s when the feeling of adventure is at the strongest. It’s not just the gigs, it’s the whole thing. Being able to walk around Louisville or Kansas City or Philadelphia and talk to people and feel free. That’s way better than the money or the fame. That’s what we live for.”
And that’s what they’re about to do.
From the Mumford & Sons official website:
A very limited number of extra tickets for Mumford & Sons’ headline show at Pier A on August 1st are available, if you’re quick, here: http://mumfordandsons.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=70228&eid=79429
M&S HQ x
Hello! I think that article is a bit misleading. The band played a secret gig at The Basement in Nashville after the last of their three shows at The Ryman on March 8th. After that, they returned to the studio in the UK and didn’t get back out on the road until late May. They did a short UK tour, followed by a festival tour across part of Europe that concluded just two weeks ago.
I apologize for any confusion brought on by that article. The only important thing is that the band’s new single will be out on August 7th!
From KROQ.com:
Mumford & Sons have just announced that the first single from the forthcoming album, Babel, will be released the afternoon of August 7th, assuming the band is able to keep it under lock and key ’til then.
The band says of the album, “At first, we peeled ourselves off the road quite reluctantly.We love playing live, obviously, but it had also become an important part ofour creative process, we had been writing and rehearsing in soundchecks, and sort of road-testing new songs on our very gracious audiences. But then we fell in love with recording again.”
Over the past two months, Mumford & Sons have been spotted road-testing their material throughout the Eastern U.S. at incredibly small off-the-beaten-path bars and clubs. “I heard Mumford was playing a bar outside Nashville and I just happened to be in the city so I hopped in a taxi,” recounts KROQ-FM’s Gene Sandbloom. “I found myself on the edge of town at a place called The Basement with a few dozen people.”
“We feel that this record is a natural progression that we’re proud of, and we cannot wait to take it out on the road,” says Mumford in a statement.
The band has not yet released which of the following twelve tracks will be the have the honor of being the first single.
Babel Tracklisting:
Mumford & Sons’ Gentlemen of the Road Stopover Shows continue this summer as they near Babel‘s September 25th release.
– Jay Tilles, CBS Local
Hello!
If you check the Discography, you’ll see that it was originally released in 2010 as an extra track on “The Cave” single (not the EP). Since then the song has gone through many changes, most recently with the addition of a chorus and a bit more of a rock feel. You can watch a video of this brilliant updated version here, and listen to and download the mp3 here.
As you will hear, the new chorus contains the words “I will wait, I will wait for you,” leading many to believe that the updated version of this song will be on the new album with a new title: “I Will Wait”. Only time will tell!
Again, I don’t have any insider information on Babel, so your guess is as good as mine.
No, before you preorder, let me clarify.
If you click this:
…on the band’s homepage, you will be taken to an external website, myplaydirect.com, to order. Though the page is all black and has the Mumford & Sons lion header, it is not the official presale. You have to click this:
…on the bottom right-hand side of the page, and then click “Store” to go to the official Mumford & Sons presale with all the posters and screen prints. Everything there is available worldwide.
I hope this helps.
Hey, thanks for the message. I’m answering this publicly because it’s very important that no one is confused by that email or the presale information listed on the Mumford & Sons official website.
I have actually already contacted the distributor about this issue and they stated:
We can confirm that the screen print is available to all customers who order through our store, and will be shipped globally.
I’m not quite sure why the email and update on the M&S official website have those extras listed as being available only in the UK, but I can confirm that everything for sale on the M&S official website is available everywhere.
Babel is now available for preorder worldwide on iTunes except for in the US and Canada; it will be made available on iTunes in those countries in early August.
Just so you know, when you preorder hardcopies of the album (CD or vinyl) through the Mumford & Sons official webstore, they come with a digital download. I’m including that information because I also received this question:
You can find details about the exclusive mumfordandsons.com preorder here, but know that you are ordering hardcopies of Babel that also come with mp3 downloads
Thanks for the questions!
The City of Hoboken announced:
Of the 15,000 tickets for the concert on Wednesday August 1st, 500 tickets for the show be set aside for sale in Hoboken, upon request from Mayor Dawn Zimmer.
The tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. TOMORROW, Wednesday, July 25th at Tunes, located at 225 Washington St.
Tickets are $55 each, cash only, and there is a 2 ticket limit per person.
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Click through to read the rest of the article at The Hoboken Patch.
Hi, and thank you! I try to be as helpful as I can.
There is a download of that Communion jam session and, as a matter of fact, I’ve already posted it right here.
For anyone who is unaware of what she’s asking about, Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard and his band, Michael Kiwanuka, The Staves, and Johannes from Bear’s Den covered John Martyn’s “Over The Hill” during this year’s SXSW and shared the video of the jam session. I highly encourage you to not only check out that cover, but to also check out all of those brilliant artists and Communion. You can sign up to receive Communion’s weekly update that always includes free downloads and, really, who doesn’t like free awesome music? Check it out!
Click here to purchase the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.
Click here to download the film from iTunes.
Click here to subscribe to the free Big Easy Express podcast that includes clips not shown in the film.
Preview two clips from Big Easy Express by clicking here and here.
Enjoy!
Sure! That hilarious interview was actually from Hurricane Festival, but Winston and Ben were discussing the band’s gig the night before at Southside Festival. Click here to watch a video of the performance of “Whispers in the Dark” they discussed. Sadly, you can’t see Ben playing guitar at the front of the stage like they mention in the interview.
However.
There is a fantastic video of the band performing “Whispers in the Dark” at Harvest of Art Festival a few days later in which you get a close-up of Ben playing electric guitar, and I will post that for you momentarily.
Thanks for the question!
Hi! Thank you. It is indeed my pleasure to help.
A screenprint is sort of like a poster, except not. The difference is that each screenprint is individually hand-printed using a sort of mesh screen stencil through which ink passes onto high-quality archival paper, whereas posters are made by mass reproduction of an image onto paper by a printer. Screenprints are typically considered to be collector’s items, especially when they are hand-numbered like the ones available through the exclusive Babel presale on Mumford & Sons’ official website. Those screenprints will not be available anywhere else and are “strictly limited edition.”
You can click here to watch one process by which screenprints are created. You’ll see that only one screenprint and one ink color can be printed at a time so, with any screenprint that requires more than one color, it will have to go through the screening and drying process at least once per color. It’s easy to see why screenprints are far more valuable than posters.
I hope this gives you the information you need!
It is absolutely confirmed!
Babel Tracklisting:
All preorders come with an MP3 download version of the complete album that will be delivered on the day of release.
Those who preorder the Deluxe CD and the Vinyl LP will also receive a poster which is exclusive to mumfordandsons.com customers.
Those who preorder the CD, Deluxe CD, and the Vinyl LP plus Screenprint will receive an exclusive bundle that includes the aforementioned poster (Deluxe CD and Vinyl LP only), an mp3 download, as well as a strictly limited edition, hand-numbered screenprint to commemorate the release of Babel. Printed on 250 gsm archival paper, this print is exclusive to mumfordandsons.com.
Click through to preorder your copy of Babel at the Mumford & Sons official website now!
