Mumford and Sons

Can never have too much of that particular story, it is a thing of beauty.

Matt DC otm.

It's like the story of James McNew buying a friend (or vice versa) front row Beach Boys tickets in the early '90s just to boo Mike Love.

Be great if Mike Love did the reverse

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8534/8754655962_3da138cc99_z.jpg
"Bring it on."

Listen, having Mike Love glaring at you from the front row, that's got to be tough

Don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but evidently John C. Reilly is in Mumford-mode these days.

http://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/jo/johnreilly/johnreilly_fullsize_story1.jpg

Acting!

you see all these guys dressed as mumford and sons

More good news for ILM's favourite band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6PKlDXeU&feature=youtu.be

Lol?

the video exists so that I can forget how shitty the song/band/aesthetic is

Yeah I had fun with it

but I still have to hear the song so

Not required

i dislike the band, but think this is great, and shrewd.

If this appeared as an SNL spoof I'd think it was great. I hate them without reservation but this is very smart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29

The song was too awful to endure enough of the video to see the joke.

Mute!

Some Crayon Pop realness at 3:40

I didn't realize it wasn't the actual band until the Office dude at the piano started mugging and I still don't know who the other guys are

One of them is Jason Bateman, I don't know who the other guys are and I hate that I even clicked on that to find out, even with the sound muted.

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Ed Helms

I enjoyed watching this, completely oblivious to it being genuine Mumfords song, thinking "they've really nailed that shitty sound"

http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2013/09/12/report-mumford-sons-booted-from-clermont/

Anonymous “strip club sources” say things went awry for the British folk pop act when — after performing hours earlier at Centennial Park – singer Ben Lovett took to the lounge’s karaoke stage and began singing the songs he should be tired of already.

His bandmates whipped out their cellphones and began shooting video, which is pretty much a no-no in any strip club I have woken up in.

The mood really turned sour when the DJ turned down the music and told everyone to put their phones away. This allegedly “ruined” Lovett’s performance and the band began cussing out the strip club staff.

lol

I guess they're no longer good Christian boys or whatever

taking cell phone video of yr buddy pushing strippers off a stage so he can sing yr band's shitty songs sounds pretty 2010s Christian to me

Hahah

I mean, I was expecting at least one mention of someone attempting to spice up a lap dance with a banjo, this is all kind of anticlimactic

the funniest thing about this story is that literally nobody who goes to the Clermont Lounge wants to see the Mumford & Sons singer doing karaoke

And the people all said, "Sit down!"
"Sit down, you're blocking the strippers!"

someone attempting to spice up a lap dance with a banjo

Goddamit, dp, this phrase will be poisoning my psyche all day!

I wish I had been there so bad

This is the greatest Atlanta musician-gets-thrown-out-of-place-of-business story since Kid Rock was thrown out of that Waffle House.

taking cell phone video of yr buddy pushing strippers off a stage so he can sing yr band's shitty songs sounds pretty 2010s Christian to me

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my first thought when i read this story tbh

LET JOY BE UNCONFINED

I was bemused when sorting out some vinyl to DJ with last week to discover I had an unplayed 10" of their second EP. I was then delighted to discover it sells for £120-£180.

Oh, they're not that bad, I miss them already.

I hate Mumford & Sons as much as anyone, and I know we live in the clickbait era, but damn that headline is cold

^

Never been anything but offended since I first heard them.

May the hiatus be forever indefinite.

What will come first:

1) Mumford solo album that may or may not be moody and/or weird
2) New band fronted by Mumford that sort of sounds like a rockier version of Mumford & Sons
3) New rock-leaning band featuring the other three guys and a drummer
4) New band including the other three guys and a girl singer and/or drummer that sticks to the folkish mode.
5) Mostly instrumental soundtrack project featuring one or more of these dudes.

Knowing what obnoxious whores they are, at least three of those will happen in the next year to eighteen months.

"Hiatus" usually means a post-tour break followed by another album in two or three years, ie pretty standard for a band of this size. I'm sure Coldplay have said something similar between albums. More chance of a forgettable solo record here though.

"Indefinite hiatus" seems a little more forceful. Here's a Coldplay-style clarification:

"It happens to us every album. I say on stage, ‘I’ll see you in a bit’, then we always bring out another album and look silly because everyone’s like, ‘I thought you retired?'," Chris told The Sun.

"The album is definitely coming, unless the rest of the band decide to pursue their modelling careers of course – goodness knows mine is over."

Martin also told the Daily Star that he "fired up" about their future. "I've been writing songs and I'm so fired up about the band's future."

"I'm fortunate to do what I do and no way do I want to stop. This three-year break idea only came about because I said at a gig in Australia that we might not be back there for three years."

"That's probably true, but that's just how a world tour works. No chance are we taking a three-year break."

*five years later*

"Hi guys!...oh it's the Strokes revival time now, okay, never mind."

Be funny if these bands all had like a google calendar thing to synchronize the end of their respective breaks. Until a killjoy like Bowie crashes the party. I'm sure Suede logged on to google that and was all "that fucker, we've had this Tuesday booked for two years straight!"

I imagine a Lumineers and Monsters and Men break is probably already on the books, so Mumford had to take a break now to get the return timing right.

xp I think that at the end of long tours people are so frazzled that they're prone to dramatic statements but it's win-win for me: either I'm right and they'll be back in 2015 anyway or I'm wrong and I get to avoid this dreadful band for even longer.