May
On Marcus Mumford’s involvement in upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
From Variety.com:
Saturday 18, May 2013
Scott Foundas/@foundsonfilm
The sounds of the early 1960s folk music revival float on the air like a strange, intoxicating perfume in the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a boldly original, highly emotional journey through Greenwich Village nightclubs, a bleak New York winter, and one man’s fraught efforts to reconcile his life and his art. A product of the same deeply personal end of the Coens’ filmmaking spectrum previously responsible for the likes of “Barton Fink” and “A Serious Man,” this darkly comic musical drama with an elliptical narrative and often brusque protagonist won’t corral the same mass audience as “No Country for Old Men” and “True Grit.” But strong reviews — for the pic itself and its stupendous soundtrack — should make this December release an awards-season success for distrib CBS Films.
As they did with the 1940s Hollywood setting of “Barton Fink,” the Coens have again taken a real time and place and freely made it their own, drawing on actual persons and events for inspiration, but binding themselves only to their own bountiful imaginations. The result is a movie that neatly avoids the problems endemic to most period movies — and biopics in particular — in favor of a playful, evocatively subjective reality. Perhaps most surprising to some viewers will be the pic’s surfeit of something the Coens have sometimes been accused of lacking: deep, heartfelt sincerity.
Where Clifford Odets provided the inspiration for “Fink’s” eponymous playwright, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) has been similarly modeled on the late Dave Van Ronk, a mainstay of the ’60s New York folk revival whose vaunted reputation among musicians never translated into the commercial success enjoyed by many of his contemporaries. Like Van Ronk, the pic’s Davis is a guitar-strumming balladeer whose repertoire consists mostly of vintage American roots music of the sort catalogued by musicologists John and Alan Lomax as they traversed the southern U.S. One such tune, the haunting “Dink’s Song” (aka “Fare Thee Well”) becomes the pic’s melancholy refrain in a version purportedly cut by Davis and his former partner, Mike (British musician Marcus Mumford), before the latter’s suicide rendered Llewyn a solo act…
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Below is an exclusive video of Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford performing “Dink’s Song” live at Caffe Vivaldi in New York City on January 10, 2012 (click here for a rebloggable version).
May
Mumford & Sons perform “I Gave You All” live at Eden Sessions in Cornwall, UK on 2nd July 2010.
Watch Mumford & Sons’ entire Eden Session here.
Apr
Here is an exclusive preview of Live from the Artists Den: Mumford & Sons! Filmed at The Belasco in Los Angeles on November 11, 2012, this video features the band performing “I Will Wait.” Click here for photos from the performance.
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Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Holland Road” from Babel at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain on 21st March, 2013.
Apr
JUST ANNOUNCED: Mumford & Sons to headline Australian festival Splendour in the Grass on Friday, 26th July, 2013!
Other festival performers include The National, Of Monsters and Men, Passion Pit, Matt Corby, Laura Marling, HAIM and many more. Check out the full lineup right here.
General public tickets for Splendour in the Grass tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, 2nd May at this link.
Finally, watch the Splendour in the Grass lineup announcement video right here:
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Ghosts That We Knew” from Babel at Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona on 20th March, 2013.
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Babel” at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain on 21st March, 2013.
Apr
While at the Mistubishi Electric Halle in Düsseldorf on 3rd April, 2013, Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall performed a banjo solo… of sorts.
Apr
Ben Lovett and Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons sat down for this interview while in Lisbon for their concert on 23rd March, 2013.
Apr
First Aid Kit made a special appearance with Mumford & Sons at Annexet in Stockholm, Sweden on 10th April, 2013. Here are both bands performing First Aid Kit’s song “The Lion’s Roar” together.
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “The Cave” at the Mitsubishi Electric Halle in Düsseldorf on 3rd April, 2013. A fan threw a special “gift” on stage for Winston, so he decided to wear it for this performance. Here is a more detailed fan photo of the “gift.”
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Dust Bowl Dance” at the Velodrom in Berlin on 2nd April, 2013. Watch out for flying microphone stands, drumsticks, and electric guitars!
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Whispers in the Dark” from Babel at the Velodrom in Berlin on 2nd April, 2013. Watch out for the broken banjo string!
Apr
Mumford & Sons perform “Hopeless Wanderer” from Babel at Rockhal in Luxembourg on 27th March, 2013.
Mar
Mumford & Sons perform “White Blank Page” at Le Trianon in Paris on 26th March, 2013.
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