Mar
Mumford & Sons perform “For Those Below” from Babel at Gasometer in Vienna, Austria on 7th March, 2013. This song features Winston Marshall on lead vocals.
Click here to watch the HD video of Mumford & Sons’ entire 17-song concert in Vienna!
Dec
To celebrate the end of a successful year and as a gift to all my followers, Mumford & Sons Blog has put together a playlist of some of the best Mumford & Sons concert highlights of 2012. This collection is comprised of high-quality tracks that represent a wide variety of performances from throughout the year. Here is the track list:
- Babel (Kevin & Bean’s Breakfast with Mumford & Sons)
- I Will Wait (US Stopover Compilation, Portland)
- Roll Away Your Stone (Pinkpop Festival)
- Not With Haste (iTunes Festival)
- Below My Feet, feat. Harry Cargill/Guitar (Southside Festival)
- White Blank Page (Pinkpop Festival)
- Timshel (In:Demand Uncut)
- Little Lion Man (US Stopover Compilation, Bristol)
- Lover of the Light (Live on Letterman)
- Thistle & Weeds, feat. Harry Cargill/Guitar (Hurricane Festival)
- Lovers’ Eyes (iTunes Festival)
- Ghosts That We Knew, feat. Ross Holmes/Fiddle (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)
- Awake My Soul (CD102.5 Big Room, Columbus)
- Whispers in the Dark (Live at The Wireless, Sydney)
- Dust Bowl Dance (iTunes Festival)
- The Cave (Rockness Festival)
BONUS TRACKS - Tessellate, orig. Alt-J (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Special)
- Reminder (In:Demand Uncut)
- Where Are You Now (Kevin & Bean’s Breakfast with Mumford & Sons)
- The Boxer, orig. Simon & Garfunkel (with Emmylou Harris and Jerry Douglas, CMT Crossroads)
- Lover of the Light [Stripped Down Version] (In:Demand Uncut)
- Not In Nottingham (Marcus Mumford & Taylor Goldsmith, M&S and Friends Daytrotter Session)
- If I Needed You (with Emmylou Harris and Jerry Douglas, CMT Crossroads)
- Awake My Soul, feat. Dawes and Jerry Douglas (US Stopover Compilation, Dixon)
Click here to download the Mumford & Sons 2012 Concert Highlights collection now! Please note that all images used in the album art are copyright James Marcus Haney.
For a huge selection of full Mumford & Sons concerts and performances from 2009 to the present, click here to explore the Download Finder on Mumford & Sons Blog.
Congratulations to Mumford & Sons for a successful 2012, and here’s to an even more incredible 2013! Happy new year to all!
Jul
Helloooo! Your blog is my go to place whenever I need to find anything at all relating to Mumford and Sons. Thank you sososo much for all the effort you put into it. I'm hoping that you know where I can find those playlists that Marcus and Ben made a while back. I can't seem to find them on the M&S website. Help? :D
Helloooo! Thank you so much for your sweet words. Your support means the world to me.
Sure, I’ve got the playlists for you! As a matter of fact, here are the playlists from Ben, Marcus, and even Winston had some music suggestions (perhaps gaining some “indie cred” in the process?) in his recent “Attempt at a Win Blowgge”. Furthermore, the band have put together a Gentlemen of the Road Stopover Mixtape filled with music by several artists playing at their GOTR Stopovers this summer.
Enjoy, and please let me know if I can help with anything else!
May
Mumford & Sons’ Festival Playlist
Here’s something to bring some cheer to your day - Mumford And Sons have cobbled together a nifty little playlist of tracks by the artists they’ve hand-picked to play at their festival-sized Gentleman Of The Road Stopover gigs this summer. And they’ve even compiled us a handy guide to the artists involved, too, giving us their thoughts on the likes of Michael Kiwanuka, The Vaccines, Slow Club and more. Bless ‘em.
To find out more about the band’s two Gentleman Of The Road shows this summer, which take place at Huddersfield’s Greenhead Park and Galway’s Salthill Park on June 2 and 9 respectively, click here. And click the SoundCloud player [above] to start listening to the playlist…
Feb
Mumfordandsons.com Blog Update: WIN DOWGGE'S ATTEMPT AT A WIN BLOWGGE
Friday, February 17, 2012
From the Mumford & Sons Official Website:
From time to time on our website we like to put up a list of songs that we are listening to at the moment, songs we want other people to listen to maybe, or maybe just list off some songs that make us look well indie. Now it’s my turn to use this mechanism to show the world how alternative I am. Unfortunately for anyone remotely interested I’m going through a phase that most of my mates, most of the world, went through fifteen years ago; Nirvana. Now I don’t think I could say anything about that band that hasn’t already been said, and I don’t think it would be of much interest to anyone if I was to put up the tracklisting of Nevermind. But listening to them is reminding me of the few times a band has come along and made a big impact on this small mind of mine. So I’d like to write a little something about an album that made my boxers start twitching a few years ago and it would make me happy if more people would give it a listen.
The album is Four Thieves Gone by a band we’ve since had the pleasure of playing with, The Avett Brothers. What a f**king album. I think when I first heard it we’d started touring hard around the UK, meeting exotic women from towns like Wakefield and Middlesbrough, then heading home to write about what we’d seen (in the key of G). This album came along and the songs were about writing about what we were thinking about writing about writing about thinking…. confusing, it was, but this album cleared it up for me.
People talk about ‘honest’ music a lot these days. Well this album is honest. It’s honest without being soppy, it’s witty without being whiney, it’s about girls without being (too) girly. (Bit girly is alright, sometimes). If Herman Hesse ever wrote a song it would have been Talk On Indolence, a perfect combination of dense heady narcissism and light clumsy joviality (with the refrain I’m a little nervous about what you’ll think, when you see me in my swimming trunks). I could replace each name in Pretty Girl From Feltre and have a perfect description of something that happened to me. Distraction 74 could probably describe every event of my life between the ages of 16 and 21… I’m already getting quite sentimental about this album so i might steer away from telling you why each song is so important to me lest this blog turns into a teenage girl’s diary (no offense to any teenage girls who keep diaries out there, I think you are very brave).
Ladies and gentlemen I present you a folk album of grunge songs, jigs, punk masterpieces, Appalachian classics, even, dare I say it, jazz. If you like it try listening to their album Emotionalism. If you don’t like it, don’t worry, listen to The Vaccines (do I get some indie cred now? but you should actually listen to The Vaccines cos they are pretty sick).
I think this is one of my first blogs, so in case I’ve committed “cyberworld suicide”, goodbye forever. If not then goodbye for now.
Ok bye.
Winston
Jan
Hi there! Love the blog <3 <3 So I am obviously in love with the boys, but am in serious need of some new music. So I was wondering if you had any referrals/the boys had suggested anything. Have a happy holidays and hope you feel better! Cheers! :)
Hello there, and I’m so glad to hear you love the blog! Thank you also for the well-wishes (seeing as this message was sent while I was still sick last week; I’ve got a bit of catching up to do!).
You’re in luck! Both Ben and Marcus have put together playlists of some of the music they’ve been listening to:
Both collections are brilliant and I highly suggest that everyone check them out. Marcus and Ben even included links to their collections on both Spotify and YouTube for your convenience!
I hope this helps, and thank you for the question! Cheers! :)
Dec
To close out the year and as a gift to all of my followers, Mumford & Sons Blog has put together a playlist of some of the best Mumford & Sons concert highlights of 2011! I’ve taken the time to edit all the tracks for the best audio possible, so these files are the highest quality available. Here’s the track list:
- Sigh No More (Coachella)
- Roll Away Your Stone (Glastonbury)
- Winter Winds (Railroad Revival Tour/New Orleans)
- Below My Feet (Telluride Bluegrass Festival)
- White Blank Page (Bonnaroo)
- Timshel (Railroad Revival Tour/New Orleans)
- Hopeless Wanderer (Telluride Bluegrass Festival)
- Little Lion Man (KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas)
- Lover of the Light (Coachella)
- Ghosts That We Knew (KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas)
- Awake My Soul (Hyde Park)
- Thistle & Weeds (Bonnaroo)
- Lovers’ Eyes (Hyde Park)
- Dust Bowl Dance (107.7 THE END’s Deck the Hall Ball)
- The Cave (Glastonbury)
BONUS PERFORMANCE TRACKS - When My Time Comes, Dawes feat. Mumford & Sons (World Cafe 20th Anniversary Concert)
- Home (KBCO Radio)
- Lovers’ Eyes (Backstage at Bonnaroo)
- Ghosts That We Knew (Radio 104.5 Philadelphia)
- This Train is Bound for Glory, with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show (Railroad Revival Tour/New Orleans)
Click here to download and add these performance highlights to your library!
M&S Blog would like to thank Mumford & Sons for a brilliant 2011, and here’s to an even better 2012! Happy new year, everyone!
Nov
Mumfordandsons.com Blog Update: A Playlist By Marcus
A huge thank you to every single one of you who made it to one of the recent Canadian shows - hope you enjoyed yourselves. For those who couldn’t make it, we should hopefully have some photos to share with you soon (the few people have already posted on Facebook are lookin’ pretty cool). In the meantime, here’s a new playlist of some Marcus’ recent listenings for you…
- Ryan Adams - Lucky Now
- Low Anthem & Emmylou Harris - Ohio (Emmylou Harris ‘Hard Bargain’ album bonus track)
- Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical
- Dawes - When My Time Comes
- War on Drugs - Best Night
- Steve Earle - God is God
- Tom Petty - Saving Grace
- Dave van Ronk - Hang Me Oh Hang Me
- Sons of Noel and Adrian - Ragwort
Listen here on Spotify (some tracks not available) or here on YouTube (ditto) - and feel free to leave your own recommendations below.
Much love
M&S HQ x
(via lavenderward)
Sep
Mumfordandsons.com Blog Update: Some things to listen to - A playlist by Ben Lovett
Hello again friends,
As you may have heard the band have been working away in a studio somewhere in London of late. At present, the fruits of this hard work remain a closely guarded secret… However it seems Ben has been utilizing the quieter spells and put together this little playlist for those readers whom might enjoy such things. It’s a mixture of tracks he can’t stop listening to, bands he’s working with for Communion and also some of his favourite new releases…
Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale
David Mayfield Parade - I Just Might Pray
Gotye ft Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
Laura Marling - Salinas
Slow Club - Palms
Daughter - Landfill
The Devil Makes Three - Beneath The Piano
The Antlers - I Don’t Want Love
Treetop Flyers - It’s About Time
The Apache Relay - Home Is Not Places
Nathaniel Rateliff - Early Spring Till
Marcus Foster - Shadows Of The City
We’ve put the tracks together into this YouTube playlist so you can listen to them easily (unfortunately the Slow Club track isn’t available on YouTube, but you can listen to a clip on iTunes). Or you can listen here on Spotify, however some tracks are not yet available on Spotify.
Hope you enjoy - and feel free to leave any recommendations of your own below.
Love M&S HQ (& Ben!) x
Jun
We asked Ben to put together a Powers Of Ten playlist
Since forming in December 2007, Mumford & Sons – vocalist and guitarist Marcus Mumford, banjo player ‘Country’ Winston Marshall, keyboard player Ben Lovett and double bassist Ted Dwane – have quickly become one of the top names amongst the new wave of folk-influenced acts in the UK, alongside the likes of Noah & The Whale and Laura Marling.
The band’s debut album, ‘Sigh No More’, peaked at number seven in the UK chart following its release last year, and has since been certified platinum, spawning singles such as ‘Little Lion Man’ and ‘The Cave’.
Next week Communion, the record label owned by Ben with Cherbourg’s Kevin Jones and producer Ian Grimble, Communion, will take over Kentish Town’s Flowerpot venue for seven days next week for a special collaboration. Artists involved – the likes of Mt Desolation, Lissie, Angus & Julia Stone, Kill It Kid, Matthew & The Atlas and members of Mumford & Sons – will spend the week writing and recording songs for a forthcoming album and then perform together in the evenings. For full details, click here.
Ahead of that, we asked Ben to put together a Powers Of Ten playlist. The result, he tells us, is “a selection of artists involved with Communion and some of my tour listening favourites”.
BEN LOVETT’S TEN
Click here to listen to Ben’s playlist in Spotify, and then read on to find out more about his selections.
01 Johnny Flynn – Howl
I love this song. I love this song so much I get shivers, smile and grit my teeth. Johnny is a ridiculously talented songwriter and the individuals who make up his band and sound are equally talented. ‘Howl’ is off the new album, ‘Been Listening’. Worth every penny.
02 The Maccabees – Can You Give It
Truly one of the best UK bands of recent years. We toured with the boys last year and they taught us a thing or two about life on the road, the balance of fun and doing gigs. Their second album, ‘Wall Of Arms’ is fantastic and this is a big song off that record.
03 Pete Roe – Bellina
One of our boys, this track is off Pete’s ‘Merry-Go-Round’ EP released on Communion last month. I’ve seen Pete play more than anyone else, which is quite weird to think but absolutely fantastic at the same time. He’s a true British troubadour, and not a bad guy either.
04 Peggy Sue – February Snow
I’ve played with this band, produced a record for them, and admired them for years. Something that people often forget these days is the power of vocal melodies and drums. In my opinion, these are the most powerful musical instruments. And Peggy Sue nail it.
05 Lykke Li – Dance, Dance, Dance
We were in Stockholm last week on this tour and I remembered how much I loved Lykke Li’s debut album and listened to it a lot of the time in 2009. Her voice is amazing, and the production on this record is so perfect for it. She played her debut show in the UK at the birthday party of one of our friends, who runs another independent record label in London, Chess Club.
06 Alessi’s Ark – Constellations
I spent a significant amount of time playing keys for the wonderful Alessi and I felt very honoured to have done that. She made a brilliant album, ‘Notes From The Treehouse’, that didn’t get the recognition it deserved and this is my favourite track off that record. Album two is in the pipeline.
07 Matthew & The Atlas – Within The Rose
Matthew is such a lovely and unassuming man but his voice is extraordinary and was impossible to ignore, there’s such wisdom and character to it. This song was recorded last winter as huge flakes of snow fell around the studio, nestled in the crypt of a church in north London.
08 Broadcast 2000 – That Sinking Feeling
We love what Joe Steer does, both live and recorded he is an immensely creative and ingenious musician. This track is from his debut album which has just come out, we were so pleased when he agreed to submit a song for our Communion compilation.
09 Kurran & The Wolfnotes – Here To Fill You In
Kurran is a very gifted songwriter who has a way of stringing brilliant section after brilliant section together – a relentless run of hook laden melody and personal lyrics.
10 Jeremy Warmsley – How We Became
Jeremy is an incredibly talented and intelligent musician and one of the first artists to establish himself on the scene, as a result he’s influenced a lot of the other musicians over the past few years.
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