Mumford and Sons

Maybe they just want to be hobbits.

I think that NZ has enough troubles without us sending them there for filming.

*trying hard not to make shit joke about 'hobbit-forming' or something equally as bad*

"Tragedy struck Mumford and Sons today when a strangely specific earthquake..."

Actually, wait, NZ worships the Fall, yeah? Mumford go down there, they'll be arrested at the airport, charged with being crap and dunked in the ocean.

x-post to the last picture. One of these instruments is not like the other ... It's like a picture of the Band if Garth had a Casio.

You mean the synth-washboard?

Has R. Carmody weighed in on this shower? Mumford-Boden-Cameron West London pseudo-ruralism would seem to be right up his analytical street.

But it's on a tartan rug... probably with a nice Chippendale cabinet underneath (xp)

Has R. Carmody weighed in on this shower?

please god no

I do think there's some significance in them using folk music as a way for posh chaps to bond (yuck) with the common man (yuck). Picking up acoustic instruments and dressing like extras from a Hardy adaptation is enabling some sort of blurring of social position that they would never have achieved if they'd have been all britpop swagger and well into footie.

― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 25 February 2011 12:47 (17 minutes ago)

^^^

idk lex, this lot are really something special

whether they have admitted to voting tory is beside the point

x-post Ha, the Nord Washboard.

whether they have admitted to voting tory is beside the point

idk, i think when one describes someone as tory, this IS the point

No one has actually described them as Tory on this thread.

^^

lex had first mention today

it's been a common thing that i noticed, that's why i mentioned it

let's hope some of these people saying terrible slanderous things about les mumfords deign to explain themselves on ilx

Need Marcello's infallible Toryscope... perhaps not

Fwiw, I would never have thought of this band as "Tories"

uh it's not like i'm defending the mumfords or even know that much about them, was just wondering what exactly was going on here, but feel free to passantino the thread with disingenuous shit

xp

Whereas came as no surprise that Scouting For Girls guy was a "But we must do something to tackle the deficit" style Lib Dem (xp)

toryism seems kinda wrong anyway, i imagine them sublimating any sense of politics into a 'it's not about left and right' evasive ruritanian stupidity, a sugary mix of wishful thinking and apolitical amnesia about the risible doughty peasant tropes they trade in

cf their ostensibly non-denominational but evidently christianist rhetoric about 'faith'

guessing they are lib dems

I think the point is that it's apposite to have a Biggest Band In Britain who are massive musical reactionaries at the point at which we have particularly hateful Tory government again.

Most recent Biggest Bands In Britain wouldn't scare most Tories I'd imagine, but the Mumfords' image and sound plays into it as well.

Or the Mumfords have tapped into the British record buying public's inherent musical conservatism in a particularly irritating way - see also positioning themselves against anything "manufactured" (for which, read modern).

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/0067/Parsonage-Garden-at-Nuenen-in-the-Snow,-The.jpg

fuck a modernity, let's get the serfs to start an organic turnip processing co-op and sell it to ocado

nb i'd basically agree w/ lex that tory slurs shd be avoided if the recipients aren't soi disant tories -- explain from first principles (in this case aesthetic bankruptcy) when possible

The decider for these types of things should always be the would-they-play-Zac-Goldsmiths-next-barndance? test imo.

hi-cult forms of heart-of-oak back-to-the-land stuff also on the rise? Feel like I'm hearing a lot more about John Piper over the last year or two, and that Alexandra Harris book, Romantic Moderns (nb not about romo) getting a lot of reviews. Bloomsbury pastoral.

Big Society?

Let's all get together with our washboards and ukeleles and Tyrloean hats and try to put the Great (or at least) the Nice back into Great Britain

toryism seems kinda wrong anyway, i imagine them sublimating any sense of politics into a 'it's not about left and right' evasive ruritanian stupidity, a sugary mix of wishful thinking and apolitical amnesia about the risible doughty peasant tropes they trade in

but this, really, about M&S. Want to try and figure out that quoted-upthread Mumford enthusiasm for Chesterton when I'm not in an office.

You can't spell 'Tyrolean' without Tory *taps nose*

Look forward to their setting of GKC's The Secret People. xpost

Tyro Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

There's already a tribute band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3oWh5G9ysk

oh for fuck's sake

jesus t'night, look at the "Brooker" cut on the lead singer.

holy cow this band is getting popular on the bar jukeboxes...let me just say, mark e. smith was right

Tyro Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 25 February 2011 14:25 (1 hour ago)

a+

could save a lot of hand-wringing and just napalm the cunts

Tribute bands already? I've never understood the Brit tendency to crank out tribute bands while the artists they emulate are still at the peak of their powers. The U.S. tribute bands usually focus on bands or classic lineups you can't see live anywhere (aside from shitty jamband tributes).

It's because British provincial nightclub bookers are fucking lazy and risk averse.

Makes sense I suppose. Do bands like this do well?

that's because u specialise in industrial level production of pro forma shite, whereas england is able to produce perfectly formed, unique snowflake of finest fibrous alsatian faeces like les mumfs

+ audiences like a night out where 'you know what you are getting'. (+ i guess beaten musicians like some money + attention, even in this odd vicarious form? Can't really blame them. )

Yeah there's a whole industry in this country devoted to catering specifically for people who can't be bothered to take a risk on a night out.

the same pressure must exist in america tho? and it would make sense for tribute bands in a larger country with plenty of places seldom visited by the big bands

Not really, because here in the States there seems to be a pretty strict dividing line between "clubs that focus on live acts" and "clubs that just employ djs". The former usually want to focus on names that they know will draw people in while the latter would rather just pay a dj less. There are tribute bands that break these barriers, but they tend to be pretty popular and based on specific era - early Beatles, first four albums era Metallica, etc etc.

Guesses - size makes it less economically viable maybe? Sons of Bumford can do several pub + clubs Thursday-Sunday, Exeter-Winchester, be back at their desks (guitar teachers? I just don't know) Monday morning.

Are there adaptable local bar bands in the US? Would they add Little Lion Man to their set?

Actually, wait, NZ worships the Fall, yeah? Mumford go down there, they'll be arrested at the airport, charged with being crap and dunked in the ocean.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, February 25, 2011 7:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

probably my favorite post in this thread...