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Mumford & Sons have shared the details of an intimate nine-date club tour of UK, Europe, Australia and North America, set to kick off in March.
The newly announced gigs will mark Marcus Mumford and co’s first string of headline live dates in the UK and Europe since 2018. The band will commence the tour on March 5 at Melkweg in Amsterdam. From there, they will make stops in Paris, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto before wrapping up the shows at Brooklyn Paramount in New York on March 26.
Those who are members of Agora – the band’s fan community – will have access to a ticket pre-sale available for the community members starting Thursday February 13. Anyone interested in the pre-sale should register for Agora here before Monday (February 10) at 11:59pm GMT.
General ticket sales will commence on Friday February 14 at 10am local time. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase UK tickets, here for US tickets.
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5 – Amsterdam, NL, Melkweg
7 – Paris, FR, Elysee Montmatre
9 – Berlin, DE—Metropol
11 – London, U.K., O2 Forum Kentish Town
17 – Sydney, AU, Sydney Opera House
20 – Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Palladium
22 – Chicago, IL, The Chicago Theatre
23 – Toronto, ON, Allied Music Centre – Massey Hall
26 – New York, NY, Brooklyn Paramount
Mumford & Sons have also partnered with PLUS1 to support War Child. $1 from every ticket sold will help War Child to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children affected by war.
Last month, the band shared their comeback track ‘RUSHMERE’ from their forthcoming album of the same name. It will mark their first LP in seven years and will be released on March 28 via Island/Glassnote, following on from 2018’s ‘Delta’ (pre-order/pre-save here).
‘RUSHMERE’ also marks Mumford & Sons’ first album as a trio, comprising of frontman Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett. Banjoist Winston Marshall departed the group in 2021, after facing backlash for praising a book by right-wing US journalist Andy Ngo.
Accoridng to a press release, Rushmere is the spot where it all began for the band. The pond, located on Wimbledon Common in south-west London, is where Mumford, Lovett, and Dwane first hung out and imagined the initial idea of putting a band together. Rushmere was as familiar to them as the instruments they played, and is at the heart of their origin story.
Produced by nine-time Grammy award winner Dave Cobb, ‘RUSHMERE’ follows an intense period of creativity for the trio and was recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville, in Savannah, GA, and back in the U.K. at Marcus’ studio in Devon.
Other songs set to appear on the album are ‘Malibou’, ‘Monochrome’, ‘Truth’ and ‘Blood On The Page’, the latter of which features Californian singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham. Their Pharrell-featuring 2024 song ‘Good People’ does not appear on the tracklist.
Speaking about the prospect of releasing new material in an interview in early 2024, Lovett said: “It just feels so great to be sharing new music again after all these years.”
Mumford added: “I think we always felt like we knew we were going to release some more music, but we wanted to wait for the right music. We’ve never been in haste, I don’t think. But when this music came around, we had a sense of urgency.”
Dwane explained that they had “a lot of songs kicking around” at the time, and said the group were “really excited”.
In other news, Mumford & Sons are set to join forces with the likes of David Byrne, Jack White, Chris Martin and Lady Gaga in celebration of 50 years of Saturday Night Live as part of SNL: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Hall, New York.
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Playboi Carti finally delivered on his promise to drop his anxiously awaited new album this morning. As reactions to MUSIC continue to roll in, Kanye West took to X to share his thoughts, making it clear that he's a big fan of it so far. It looks like he's not impressed by every element of the project, however. He took issue with Kendrick Lamar's contributions in particular.
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