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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
James Hall

The gritty, chart-topping (and sexy) reinvention of Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons - (Press handout)

Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane are convulsing with laughter on a sofa in a plush dressing room in the bowels of the O2 arena. “Absolutely golden,” grins Mumford. The source of their mirth is a shopping list of insults levelled at their band Mumford & Sons by Liam Gallagher early in their career — a list being diligently relayed back to them, with just a hint of trepidation, by myself.

“They look like Amish people and are as rock and roll as a blue rinse,” I quote.

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