February 6, 2025 • 14 mins
Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons joins Booker and Stryker for a fun chat! We get right down to the important business... Where does he keep his Grammy? Does he listen to Mumford & Sons? and How and where did they record their NEW album "Rushmere"? We play a round of the most famous game in the world "7 Seconds to Heaven". Lasty we ask if there will ever be a time when Mumford & Sons will stop making music. Listen in for his answer! Great time with Marcus and wish him the best!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Booker, Striker, Marcus Mufford, that little bad Muffort
and sons, an old friend hang it out with us night.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's like I'm on holiday good.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I was halfway through my Grammy story for you, and
then I can't remember why I was telling you my
Grammy story. I think maybe I just wanted to remind
you we'd want some gray.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yes, we would have got to it.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Let me get some good trivia for Booker. Here about
Mumford and Sons and Grammys. Okay, so their second album
was nominated for Album of the Year. Okay, that album
was up against a Jack White album Black Keys Fun.
Frank Ocean? What a category? Who won the Album of
the Year that year?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Frank Ocean?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Was this guy and son?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Frank Ocean gets all the awards all the time in
the accolades.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm glad you won. Good Screw Frank Ocean.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I absolutely love that. Frank Ocean.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Gont discreet it. There's all butts anyway. Anyway, here we
are highlights.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Where is that Grammy?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's my downstairs, Lee, that's a bathroom.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You keep it in a bathroom? You're Grammy on the floor.
Now he's lying it's on the mantor.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
He probably has music that plays when you walk into
the shrine, so I know you what it is where it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Actually it's exactly where it is, but it's sort of
I think I think we should probably move it because
it's a bit It's the one room in the house
of people go in most so it's actually quite flex
and it's not meant to be.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
So I'm like, it's good flex right there. Man, that's
a high key flex, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah, probably, So you do see the Grammars, you
still watch the Grammy.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I watched it for the first time this year. I
hadn't actually watched it in a long time because we're
always in the UK but here at the moment, and
so it's always on in the middle of the night,
so I sort of catch up with bits and bobs.
But we watched the whole thing, almost the whole thing
with my kids and the first screen comes up and
they see the like emblem and they're like, oh, we've
got those.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I recognized that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I loved it. I thought it was a really good show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Actually, I think it's the best Grammys in probably year.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I said to my nine year old daughter when Stevie
Wonder was about four minutes into his harmonica solo, which
was awesome. I said, he's the only person in the
world that would be allowed to play harmonica for this
long on Pruntime television. If Taylor Swift stood up there
with a harmonica, they would cut her after twenty seconds.
They'd be like, no, Taylor, what did I say on
the area yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You hate people that play harmonic exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who it is.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I am one Stevie, I am one step past you.
I hate everybody player.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
See. I feel that about the ukulele, but not about
the harmworker.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Ste Dylan, I'm going to give or Bob Dylan.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well there, can you name other harmonica players that come
to me?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, you should have been in London in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They were ever.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's how I got sick of them. It was like
everyone every open mic when we were coming up was
like guitar, including myself, harmonica racist just because you've made
you know, it made you feel like more of a musician,
but actually it's just slightly tuney breathing most of the time.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Marcus Mumford has with us for those listening, for those
watching you obviously know when you are checking out the Grammys,
do you get any like pomo, not fear of like
missing out on partying, but like the arts, like I
want to be in the room with my art and
people checking it out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah you do. I think this city gives you pomo.
I was talking about with my wife, like we get
pretty much constant creative as well as commercial, but mostly
creative pomo.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Like there's always people doing cool.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Shit everywhere in this city, and like a lot of
the best in class in entertainment live here, and so
you're constantly like there's a show down the street, and
then you see a billboard for a thing, and there's
constant creative phomo.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You're like, oh, people doing cool stuff. I want to
do more cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And you run into people and you end up making
some sort of collaboration or maybe grabbing some art out
of that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's yeah, and you can use it. I think you
use it as fuel to I then go home and
work harder once I've been here.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
How long has Rushmir been in the works? We love
the new on we're playing not like Crazy. It's also
the name of the album. Yeah, so give us the
timeline please two years. Well, last month we sat in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
A room in West Hollywood where we were living at
the time, and Ted and Ben and I got together
and said, let's just hang out with instruments and see
what happens, and if it feels good, let's start this journey.
And we did and instantly, like four songs came out
of that week that we've worked up since and that
was the beginning of this record, and a lot more
(04:33):
songs that we now have in store over the next
little while that we'll be putting out as we go,
because we've had the most prolific two years of our
life as a band, which has been really cool. We've
been in the studio like pretty much solid for two years. Well,
we like hamsters, you know, like stuffing your cheeks full,
and so you find me like with my cheeks really full,
(04:53):
fuller than normal.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, bar D and Sons has a very sound that's
very yours. Is there any sort of dramatic departures coming
from the album? Is there anything maybe you took a
left turn, You guys did something different that you've never
done before.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There's a couple songs on the record that do things
that are different for us. They probably won't sound wildly
different to lots of other people, but yeah, we leaned
into a couple of a country moment on this record
to blues moment on this record, and then the stuff
that's to come as a bit more out there. But yeah,
(05:30):
we hadn't really done. So we went to Dave Cobb
to help us with producing this record, and he felt
like exactly the right person who worked with loads of
our friends. We held him in such high regard from afar,
but we'd never really hung out as a band. He
loves British bands. He's the biggest Beatles fan I've ever
met in my life in like has bits of their
gear and those every recording and studies it. And so
(05:53):
he hadn't actually worked with a British band to my knowledge,
well with a lot of American bands. So we went
he actually came to the UK. We just had another
kid and he came like three weeks after she was born,
and we recorded at home, and then we went to
his spot in Nashville, and then we went and ended
up in his house in Savannah where he built a
home studio.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So it's fun.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Did you listen to any of your old Mumford and
Sons songs never any sort of inspiration.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I've never done that once. No, once, once the records out,
I never listened come on is because we play the
songs every night, right, But I've never once sat down
and listened to one.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Of our records intentionally.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I like, if I if I hear it, you know,
in a restaurant or something, I'll tend to try and
avoid it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Get out, okay, now to two in our own horns.
We had Pal McCartney on with.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Us here we get in.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah it happened.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And he said, when a Beatles song is on the
radio and he's not expecting it, he doesn't turn it,
he doesn't sing. It just takes him back to memories
of recording the song and in his band and look.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
At John right on your faces that he made and
it brings it back.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
His music is probably harder to avoid, the mind because
he was in the Beatles. But no, I tend to.
I tend to just hear the holes and the things
I would now do differently.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He was in the Beatles and you wouldn't want to
do any of that stuff differently. So that must be
a really nice experience for him, I'm very happy for me.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
He's all right, son.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You guys fall into that hole in West Hollywood or
wherever you made the album.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
How finished are songs are?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Are they complete projects and you just want to record
them or are you still pounding them out?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A vary song to song. There's one song we wrote
in that room two years ago last month which did
not change at all, and we just recorded it in
a room very much like the one it was written
in and used that we could have used the demo probably, But.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Are they better that way in your mind?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Like these other ones that like, there's one I had
to literally go to Istanbul to find the lyric. It
was hiding in a coffee shop above the Golden Horn
and I found it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
But I had to.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Remove myself from the studio and from home to go
chase down this lyric. And I've always sort of been
in a bit of denial about being an artist. That
was the most artist shit I've ever done in my life,
probably like took myself off. I was on my way
to Jerusalem, was like, I am going to go and
sit in a coffee shop in Istanborn and try and right.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
McCartney doesn't have to do that it just goes. Oh
I made I brought that forward. You see what I
did there? I was good Marcus.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
What was the what's the lyric that you got? And
from what song?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It was?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The course for Rushmire? Oh okay, Yeah, I was really wrestling.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It and really couldn't get it and that was that's.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, very nicely playing the palladium. Yes, in Los Angeles
March twentieth. What are we about? A month and two
weeks away from that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Have you had?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Do you need? Are there rehearsal?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Like?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
What? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, yes, we'll take all the round so we can
get okay, yeah, how is that actually? Finished recording eighteen
months ago? We've just been rehearsing since.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Can you remember those songs?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The songs aren't that aren't that complicated on the guitar
or to sing? The other lads have more work cut
out than idea, probably, but most of the songs on
this record you can play on an acoustic guitar around
a campfire. And that was the idea really, Like we
wanted to kind of go back to basics because since
the second record, we've made music partly in reaction, Like
(09:26):
the third record was in reaction to how well the
second one did, and we were like, we don't want
to just do this, we want to do this as
well and then and move on to bigger venues as well.
And then Delta was kind of this expansive, epic thing
over an hour of music, and on this record we
really wanted to keep it quite lean and make it
fairly straightforward, like so and Dave really had that vision
(09:47):
for us as well, like let people into the room
where the music is made and make it sound like that,
rather than this experience of being in the most amazing
recording studios in the world where you have every toy
at your fingertips and you can go down these creative
rabbit holes, which is super fun and partly indulgent that
we've done here and there over our career. This one
we wanted to strip it back again and just get
(10:09):
back to basics.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Really, ben Ted and Marcus or Mumford and sons, are
you anxious or nervous for the release?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
No, I think we're relieved. It's been a long gestation period.
I think we're really relieved that this first one can
start coming out so that we can catch people up
to where we're at. We're always a bit ahead of
your audience creatively, but like we're really ahead right now.
So I want to start.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
At any point in being honest, were you worried about
the band, about the band staying together or was it
always you guys were going to be a band and
it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I think we always wanted to approach it like a
choice rather than a compulsion.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It wasn't like let's not do this because we have
to do it or for any other reason than we
think what we make is worth doing. So it's really
basic in that sense. But I don't think we would
have done it out need. We would have only ever
done it out of choice. So when we sat down
and we start playing songs together, it's like, this feels good.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let's do this again.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'm gonna wrap it. We're gonna wrap it with our
seven second Game, which is getting us right into the
Radio Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
By the way, usher that Paul McCarty interview that we did.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
The seven second game is this where we ask you
one trivia question you have. You have seven seconds to
answer it. Okay, if you don't, you lose. Okay, I'm
down seven seconds on the clock. Other than you. Named
three famous people named Marcus.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Marcus Rashford, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Marcus Allen, Marcus cam He's one of my favorite musicians
in the world right now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Wow, damn Wowcus.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The second game is that the only shot I get
is one question?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You had another backup. He had a backup. Let's go
with the backup.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Feel like a winner at least in seven seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, you said, tod, it's a counter that screws with everyone.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Seven seconds. Name five fast food spots in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
In and out? Can I just ate you? Okay? And
now Wendy's Burger. We don't.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Let's talk about give it that's easy.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Name here?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What last one?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So you had to give you easy? We were worried
because you couldn't answer the first one.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You're ready. Seven seconds on the clock. Name five famous
people named John go.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
John Travalta, John Goodman, John Baptiste.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's my time off.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You go out here now.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Seven seconds. Name five Premier League foot teams, the Raiders, the.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Rams, the football team, the Plans and the Lions and
the Niners, Premier the.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Premier any of them? Styland English?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know, can't name whose h we see, we
don't know if we stick to whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
In seven seconds, named me five artists that sound like
Mumpin and Sons.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Charlie Daniels fan, I'm trying to think that flutears John Mayer.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That was rubbish.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I know, I love that. Hey, he's a very good guitarist.
Come on, look, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Guitar is amazing. Rubbish effort name sounds like us.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Nobody said this game was great. By the way, is
that Hall of Fame worthy?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That game?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Which for me it was, yeah, hey good, I thought
My Force was excellent.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, we love this. Guys. We had were rooting for
the new album from month in March twenty eighth. March
twenty eighth. Wow, well, we can't wait to see you
in concert. There's a big tour, right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We're calling this one the tour before the tour. That's
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The one we're doing, and we're announcing how much.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
New music can you get away with playing at the
tour before the tour?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Question? This is a real question. Neil young Ones played
his new record and at halftime in the show, the
crowd started chancing players. Something we've heard before and so
he came on stage and played the whole new record again.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Love That Faller, very very good.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So we've had that conversation. Lads, weren't that up for it.
I think we want to make these shows the best
Month and Sun shows they can be.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Because it's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah all right, well should we wrap right there?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Let's wrap it right there the best.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Thanks so much for making it so fun.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, we appreciate your time.
All right, Booker, Striker, Marcus Mufford, that little bad Muffort
and sons, an old friend hang it out with us night.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's like I'm on holiday good.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I was halfway through my Grammy story for you, and
then I can't remember why I was telling you my
Grammy story. I think maybe I just wanted to remind
you we'd want some gray.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yes, we would have got to it.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Let me get some good trivia for Booker. Here about
Mumford and Sons and Grammys. Okay, so their second album
was nominated for Album of the Year. Okay, that album
was up against a Jack White album Black Keys Fun.
Frank Ocean? What a category? Who won the Album of
the Year that year?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Frank Ocean?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Was this guy and son?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Frank Ocean gets all the awards all the time in
the accolades.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm glad you won. Good Screw Frank Ocean.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I absolutely love that. Frank Ocean.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Gont discreet it. There's all butts anyway. Anyway, here we
are highlights.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Where is that Grammy?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's my downstairs, Lee, that's a bathroom.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You keep it in a bathroom? You're Grammy on the floor.
Now he's lying it's on the mantor.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
He probably has music that plays when you walk into
the shrine, so I know you what it is where it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Actually it's exactly where it is, but it's sort of
I think I think we should probably move it because
it's a bit It's the one room in the house
of people go in most so it's actually quite flex
and it's not meant to be.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
So I'm like, it's good flex right there. Man, that's
a high key flex, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah, probably, So you do see the Grammars, you
still watch the Grammy.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I watched it for the first time this year. I
hadn't actually watched it in a long time because we're
always in the UK but here at the moment, and
so it's always on in the middle of the night,
so I sort of catch up with bits and bobs.
But we watched the whole thing, almost the whole thing
with my kids and the first screen comes up and
they see the like emblem and they're like, oh, we've
got those.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I recognized that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I loved it. I thought it was a really good show.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Actually, I think it's the best Grammys in probably year.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I said to my nine year old daughter when Stevie
Wonder was about four minutes into his harmonica solo, which
was awesome. I said, he's the only person in the
world that would be allowed to play harmonica for this
long on Pruntime television. If Taylor Swift stood up there
with a harmonica, they would cut her after twenty seconds.
They'd be like, no, Taylor, what did I say on
the area yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You hate people that play harmonic exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who it is.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I am one Stevie, I am one step past you.
I hate everybody player.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
See. I feel that about the ukulele, but not about
the harmworker.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Ste Dylan, I'm going to give or Bob Dylan.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well there, can you name other harmonica players that come
to me?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, you should have been in London in two thousand
and seven.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They were ever.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's how I got sick of them. It was like
everyone every open mic when we were coming up was
like guitar, including myself, harmonica racist just because you've made
you know, it made you feel like more of a musician,
but actually it's just slightly tuney breathing most of the time.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Marcus Mumford has with us for those listening, for those
watching you obviously know when you are checking out the Grammys,
do you get any like pomo, not fear of like
missing out on partying, but like the arts, like I
want to be in the room with my art and
people checking it out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah you do. I think this city gives you pomo.
I was talking about with my wife, like we get
pretty much constant creative as well as commercial, but mostly
creative pomo.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Like there's always people doing cool.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Shit everywhere in this city, and like a lot of
the best in class in entertainment live here, and so
you're constantly like there's a show down the street, and
then you see a billboard for a thing, and there's
constant creative phomo.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You're like, oh, people doing cool stuff. I want to
do more cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And you run into people and you end up making
some sort of collaboration or maybe grabbing some art out
of that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's yeah, and you can use it. I think you
use it as fuel to I then go home and
work harder once I've been here.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
How long has Rushmir been in the works? We love
the new on we're playing not like Crazy. It's also
the name of the album. Yeah, so give us the
timeline please two years. Well, last month we sat in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
A room in West Hollywood where we were living at
the time, and Ted and Ben and I got together
and said, let's just hang out with instruments and see
what happens, and if it feels good, let's start this journey.
And we did and instantly, like four songs came out
of that week that we've worked up since and that
was the beginning of this record, and a lot more
(04:33):
songs that we now have in store over the next
little while that we'll be putting out as we go,
because we've had the most prolific two years of our
life as a band, which has been really cool. We've
been in the studio like pretty much solid for two years. Well,
we like hamsters, you know, like stuffing your cheeks full,
and so you find me like with my cheeks really full,
(04:53):
fuller than normal.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, bar D and Sons has a very sound that's
very yours. Is there any sort of dramatic departures coming
from the album? Is there anything maybe you took a
left turn, You guys did something different that you've never
done before.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There's a couple songs on the record that do things
that are different for us. They probably won't sound wildly
different to lots of other people, but yeah, we leaned
into a couple of a country moment on this record
to blues moment on this record, and then the stuff
that's to come as a bit more out there. But yeah,
(05:30):
we hadn't really done. So we went to Dave Cobb
to help us with producing this record, and he felt
like exactly the right person who worked with loads of
our friends. We held him in such high regard from afar,
but we'd never really hung out as a band. He
loves British bands. He's the biggest Beatles fan I've ever
met in my life in like has bits of their
gear and those every recording and studies it. And so
(05:53):
he hadn't actually worked with a British band to my knowledge,
well with a lot of American bands. So we went
he actually came to the UK. We just had another
kid and he came like three weeks after she was born,
and we recorded at home, and then we went to
his spot in Nashville, and then we went and ended
up in his house in Savannah where he built a
home studio.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So it's fun.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Did you listen to any of your old Mumford and
Sons songs never any sort of inspiration.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I've never done that once. No, once, once the records out,
I never listened come on is because we play the
songs every night, right, But I've never once sat down
and listened to one.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Of our records intentionally.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I like, if I if I hear it, you know,
in a restaurant or something, I'll tend to try and
avoid it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Get out, okay, now to two in our own horns.
We had Pal McCartney on with.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Us here we get in.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah it happened.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And he said, when a Beatles song is on the
radio and he's not expecting it, he doesn't turn it,
he doesn't sing. It just takes him back to memories
of recording the song and in his band and look.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
At John right on your faces that he made and
it brings it back.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
His music is probably harder to avoid, the mind because
he was in the Beatles. But no, I tend to.
I tend to just hear the holes and the things
I would now do differently.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He was in the Beatles and you wouldn't want to
do any of that stuff differently. So that must be
a really nice experience for him, I'm very happy for me.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
He's all right, son.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You guys fall into that hole in West Hollywood or
wherever you made the album.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
How finished are songs are?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Are they complete projects and you just want to record
them or are you still pounding them out?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
A vary song to song. There's one song we wrote
in that room two years ago last month which did
not change at all, and we just recorded it in
a room very much like the one it was written
in and used that we could have used the demo probably, But.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Are they better that way in your mind?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Like these other ones that like, there's one I had
to literally go to Istanbul to find the lyric. It
was hiding in a coffee shop above the Golden Horn
and I found it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
But I had to.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Remove myself from the studio and from home to go
chase down this lyric. And I've always sort of been
in a bit of denial about being an artist. That
was the most artist shit I've ever done in my life,
probably like took myself off. I was on my way
to Jerusalem, was like, I am going to go and
sit in a coffee shop in Istanborn and try and right.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
McCartney doesn't have to do that it just goes. Oh
I made I brought that forward. You see what I
did there? I was good Marcus.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
What was the what's the lyric that you got? And
from what song?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It was?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
The course for Rushmire? Oh okay, Yeah, I was really wrestling.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It and really couldn't get it and that was that's.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, very nicely playing the palladium. Yes, in Los Angeles
March twentieth. What are we about? A month and two
weeks away from that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Have you had?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Do you need? Are there rehearsal?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Like?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
What? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, yes, we'll take all the round so we can
get okay, yeah, how is that actually? Finished recording eighteen
months ago? We've just been rehearsing since.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Can you remember those songs?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The songs aren't that aren't that complicated on the guitar
or to sing? The other lads have more work cut
out than idea, probably, but most of the songs on
this record you can play on an acoustic guitar around
a campfire. And that was the idea really, Like we
wanted to kind of go back to basics because since
the second record, we've made music partly in reaction, Like
(09:26):
the third record was in reaction to how well the
second one did, and we were like, we don't want
to just do this, we want to do this as
well and then and move on to bigger venues as well.
And then Delta was kind of this expansive, epic thing
over an hour of music, and on this record we
really wanted to keep it quite lean and make it
fairly straightforward, like so and Dave really had that vision
(09:47):
for us as well, like let people into the room
where the music is made and make it sound like that,
rather than this experience of being in the most amazing
recording studios in the world where you have every toy
at your fingertips and you can go down these creative
rabbit holes, which is super fun and partly indulgent that
we've done here and there over our career. This one
we wanted to strip it back again and just get
(10:09):
back to basics.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Really, ben Ted and Marcus or Mumford and sons, are
you anxious or nervous for the release?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
No, I think we're relieved. It's been a long gestation period.
I think we're really relieved that this first one can
start coming out so that we can catch people up
to where we're at. We're always a bit ahead of
your audience creatively, but like we're really ahead right now.
So I want to start.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
At any point in being honest, were you worried about
the band, about the band staying together or was it
always you guys were going to be a band and
it's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I think we always wanted to approach it like a
choice rather than a compulsion.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It wasn't like let's not do this because we have
to do it or for any other reason than we
think what we make is worth doing. So it's really
basic in that sense. But I don't think we would
have done it out need. We would have only ever
done it out of choice. So when we sat down
and we start playing songs together, it's like, this feels good.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Let's do this again.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'm gonna wrap it. We're gonna wrap it with our
seven second Game, which is getting us right into the
Radio Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
By the way, usher that Paul McCarty interview that we did.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
The seven second game is this where we ask you
one trivia question you have. You have seven seconds to
answer it. Okay, if you don't, you lose. Okay, I'm
down seven seconds on the clock. Other than you. Named
three famous people named Marcus.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Marcus Rashford, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Marcus Allen, Marcus cam He's one of my favorite musicians
in the world right now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Wow, damn Wowcus.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
The second game is that the only shot I get
is one question?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You had another backup. He had a backup. Let's go
with the backup.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Feel like a winner at least in seven seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, you said, tod, it's a counter that screws with everyone.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Seven seconds. Name five fast food spots in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
In and out? Can I just ate you? Okay? And
now Wendy's Burger. We don't.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Let's talk about give it that's easy.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Name here?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What last one?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So you had to give you easy? We were worried
because you couldn't answer the first one.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You're ready. Seven seconds on the clock. Name five famous
people named John go.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
John Travalta, John Goodman, John Baptiste.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's my time off.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You go out here now.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Seven seconds. Name five Premier League foot teams, the Raiders, the.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Rams, the football team, the Plans and the Lions and
the Niners, Premier the.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Premier any of them? Styland English?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know, can't name whose h we see, we
don't know if we stick to whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
In seven seconds, named me five artists that sound like
Mumpin and Sons.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Charlie Daniels fan, I'm trying to think that flutears John Mayer.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That was rubbish.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I know, I love that. Hey, he's a very good guitarist.
Come on, look, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Guitar is amazing. Rubbish effort name sounds like us.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Nobody said this game was great. By the way, is
that Hall of Fame worthy?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That game?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Which for me it was, yeah, hey good, I thought
My Force was excellent.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, we love this. Guys. We had were rooting for
the new album from month in March twenty eighth. March
twenty eighth. Wow, well, we can't wait to see you
in concert. There's a big tour, right.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We're calling this one the tour before the tour. That's
what it's called.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The one we're doing, and we're announcing how much.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
New music can you get away with playing at the
tour before the tour?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Question? This is a real question. Neil young Ones played
his new record and at halftime in the show, the
crowd started chancing players. Something we've heard before and so
he came on stage and played the whole new record again.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Love That Faller, very very good.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So we've had that conversation. Lads, weren't that up for it.
I think we want to make these shows the best
Month and Sun shows they can be.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Because it's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah all right, well should we wrap right there?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Let's wrap it right there the best.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Thanks so much for making it so fun.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, we appreciate your time.
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