Mumford & Sons

[firehazard]

Track from new EP also featuring the Dharohar Project can be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XpmCQsN0E

[cagliostro]

Despite the band having the name of a law firm or construction company, I picked up their CD this weekend, and have been really enjoying it. Thanks for the recommend, folks. My only complaint is that just about every song mentions the words "heart" and "fault." There was a third that eludes me now, but you get my drift.

[firehazard]

Upcoming US and Canadian tour dates just announced here:
http://www.mumfordandsons.com/news/gent ... -fall-tour

[cagliostro]

Okay, the Ogden theater in Denver CO has been regularly booking good acts in October. Last year it was the Pogues, and this year the Eels are playing 10/5/10 and now M&S are playing 10/27/10. I'd only seen two things there previously - the Cowboy Junkies (because the girlfriend really wanted to see them - I never hated them, but they never really moved me), and Jello Biafra doing a spoken word thang (5 hours of butt-numbing interesting stuff on your typical uncomfortable fold-out chairs, although there was a surprise visit from Wesley Willis).

[MissWalshy]

I've decided Stornoway are better. Oxford band. Check 'em out. They're at the Exchange firehazard if you've got the time to check them out.. and you trust my recommendations..

[firehazard]

I've decided Stornoway are better. Oxford band. Check 'em out. They're at the Exchange firehazard if you've got the time to check them out.. and you trust my recommendations..

My gig-going buddy has been trying to persuade me to buy tickets for Stornoway at Cambridge Junction for a while now, as she thinks they're great. They played the Thursday night of the folk festival this year, just like Mumford & Sons did last year, when nobody much had heard of them. I didn't see Stornoway then, as we were watching something pretty brilliant on the other stage and I couldn't be bothered to move.

Partly because I'm not convinced by Stornoway yet. What I've listened to hasn't really done it for me, I've tended to switch off a bit. And one of the girls saw them earlier this year at a home-town gig in Oxford and reckoned they were just a tad boring. So I dunno. Maybe need to see them myself I suppose...

Mumford & Sons, well, it'll be interesting to see what happens to them next. Could go in a number of ways. But they currently do a stunning live show, catch it if you can. They may now have got a bit big to play our little venue any more.

[MissWalshy]

Well if you've found yourself switching off and your girls think you'd find it boring then perhaps you ought to save your money this time and not bother with them. I can't get enough and they're on repeat ! and when I'm not listening to them I want to be. Know what I mean? Just bought tickets for Shepherds Bush Empire. Get in. Off to V festival this weekend in other news

[James]

Bands I would see at V:

Paul Weller, Madness, the Coral, Kasabian, The Prodigy, Jamie T, the Divine Comedy, Eels, Amy MacDonald, The Saw Doctors, Shaun Ryder, Kate Nash, Example, the Charlatans and Paul Heaton.

Actually, that's a really good set of bands. You're a lucky girl.

[cagliostro]

I need to pick up my tickets for the Eels, but surprisingly the wife was especially excited about Mumford and Sons and decided we needed to go see them together, which has been a rarity for us to attend a concert together. So, we paid the scalpers for the sold out show (bastards!) and found a sitter, and have the next day off work. Anything else barring us from seeing this show is nothing we can control. Ready....go!

With all that said, I'm starting to feel like making a website of people who are sick of scalpers, and will buy extra tickets to sell them at the regular price they paid to fans.

[Cdn Steve]

With all that said, I'm starting to feel like making a website of people who are sick of scalpers, and will buy extra tickets to sell them at the regular price they paid to fans.

Mumford & Sons are sold out for Vancouver as well. Here's a couple of replies to a Vancouver scalper on craigslist:

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RE:Mumford & Sons Floor Seats - $300 - $1 (van)
Date: 2010-09-12, 3:21PM PDT

you are the perfect example of everything that is wrong with our species
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To: Mumford and Sons $300 - $300 (Vancouver)
Date: 2010-09-09, 1:14AM PDT

You're a true asshole.
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[PADDYgoesDUTCH]

bought the cd the other day, because of all the buzz here and elsewhere, but so far, I ain't impressed at all

[Villajohn]

I like the Mumford and Sons album,but it is not the groundbreaking,this cd changed my life album that critics and the like will have us believe.When RED ROSES FOR ME was first released ,it never left my timetable for about 6 months,i have played the Steptoe,oops i mean Mumford cd about 6 maybe 7 times.Of the current genre of nouveau-folk-roots bands,Bellowhead are head and shoulders above anyone else,i did say CURRENT,The POGUES are still the guvnors!Great to hear from Mr.Irish B,how was your trip up North?Great meeting up with you at the Greenland Whale Fishers gig in Brum,at just about the worst venue i have ever been to BAR NONE.....

[Villajohn]

Paddy goes Butch played as a guest musician with the Greenland Whale Fishers gig in Birmingham last month,the size of the stage,bearing in mind GWF are a 7 piece band meant that poor Paddy had to play his squeezy thing in amongst the audience ,he and the GWF played a really good gig in front of about 5 men,3 women and 2 hamsters!At the venue i purchased 3 GWF cds for a tenner,absolute bargain.

[Fr. McGreer]

bought the cd the other day, because of all the buzz here and elsewhere, but so far, I ain't impressed at all

I have their album since i first heard 'Little Lion Man'. I have to say, i don't find enough in it to keep me interested during a complete play (do you find that it all sounds the same after the first few tracks?). However, when ANY of the tracks come up during a totally random playlist on the iPod, they ALL sound great.

When i saw them live, it was an amazingly intense gig and i'd love to see them again in a small venue.

[cagliostro]

I have their album since i first heard 'Little Lion Man'. I have to say, i don't find enough in it to keep me interested during a complete play (do you find that it all sounds the same after the first few tracks?). However, when ANY of the tracks come up during a totally random playlist on the iPod, they ALL sound great.

When i saw them live, it was an amazingly intense gig and i'd love to see them again in a small venue.

Yeah, I've noticed it is better to hear them in short spurts instead of all at once, because the songs really do start sounding the same. But I've not sat down with the lyric sheet and given it a thorough listen either. Lyrics are important to me, and I've not been much knocked over by their lyrics. They do have an amazing driving sound, though. We'll see how the live show moves me.