Mumford & Sons' first project was an EP entitled Love Your Ground which took a year to complete and was released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records. The experience helped inform his attitude towards Mumford & Sons audiences, which is to interact frequently and to try to create a comfortable, casual atmosphere. They also toured Australia with Laura Marling, whose disinclination to interact with audiences encouraged Mumford into the spotlight. June 2008 marked the band's first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. In February 2008, the band completed an extensive UK tour with support from Alessi's Ark, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Peggy Sue and others. Over the next six months I kept going to see them and they were literally picking up fans every time." Bloom told HitQuarters that they were still at a fledgling state and not yet ready for a label deal: "There was no one there for it, just a few friends, and they needed time to develop. It was through Tudhope's connection that Mumford & Sons was exposed to their future A&R at Island, Louis Bloom, who began monitoring the band. In early 2008, the band began working with manager Adam Tudhope, who, as part of management company Everybody's, also represents Keane and Laura Marling. It's not exclusive." Having developed in the same musical and cultural environment, Mumford & Sons' sound has been compared to that of artists such as Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling, whose backing band had included Marshall, Mumford, and Dwane.
Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred-mile radius and put it in a box to sell it as a package. Well, some of it is, and it's certainly not a scene. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Marcus Mumford said, "It's not folk really. Mumford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration-Mumford & Sons and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the same general area at the time. Ī handful of similar bands were increasing their visibility in West London around the same time, giving rise to the label "West London folk scene". Lovett indicated that the name was meant to evoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name". The band name originates from Marcus Mumford being the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances. Band members play acoustic guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, and traditional folk instruments such as banjo, mandolin and resonator guitar. Mumford & Sons was formed in late 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane.
1.5 Delta and Marshall's departure (2018–present).The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement in 2014. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band has won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011, a Mercury Prize nomination and six overall Grammy Award nominations. The band has also issued three live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011), The Road to Red Rocks (2012) and Live from South Africa: Dust and Thunder (2017). Their debut Sigh No More peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind both debuting at number one in the UK and US, the former becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2013. Mumford & Sons have released four studio albums: Sigh No More (2009), Babel (2012), Wilder Mind (2015), and Delta (2018). Banjo player Winston Marshall left the band in 2021. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, piano), and Ted Dwane (vocals, bass guitar, double bass). Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007.
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