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'Sigh No More': 2010 Barclay Card Mercury Prize - An Album of The Year

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Oi Oi saveloy! Well, multiple saveloy really. Oi Oi pack of saveloy? What's the correct collective noun for a saveloy? 'Herd' would be ridiculous, so we must therefore assume it as, clearly, a murder of saveloys.

Look out lips, here's the chips...

By now, you will have no doubt correctly guessed Mumford HQ to be the quintessential English gent; born in a bowler hat and raised on an Oxford-weave estate. I take pride in my tea and strides in my whites. I reject advances in the modern age: I fix my ties with Windsor knots and my woes with stoical silence. I take even further pride in my ability to obsess-to-the-point-of-lunacy (indeed, deviancy) about the weather. Come rain or shine, there I be found, before flickering screen, waiting patiently (naturally) for the Ceefax weather update.

I measure my life not in days, weeks, months or years, but in kilopascals, watts, centigrades and fahrenheits. The markers on my journey to the grave are laid in inches not memories. Inches of mercury...

We all know how mercury works, right? When something is hot, mercury goes up, right? So how hot does something have to be to go up for a Mercury...? Really hot? Hot like pure fiyah? Hot like The Sons?

Roasty toasty for realzy steezy, Mumford & Sons have been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize!!

This is MASSIVE news! Official wording for the sticklers: 'Sigh No More; 2010 Barclay Card Mercury Prize - An Album of The Year'. Brrrraapp!

Huge hurrahs and convivial congratulations to the boys and all involved, and here's to you September and your pregnant potential!!

 

M&S HQ

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  • PLEASE PLEASE COME TO SAN FRANCISCO, CA!!! the bay area would welcome with great big open arms!!!! i bought your cd today and can't stop listening to it!!! I WOULD LOVE TO YOU GUYS LIVE!!! :)

    Posted by PandaBear on Sun 01 Aug, 2010

  • please come back to Tennessee!! You all played at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN and I absolutely loved it. We want you back!!!!

    Posted by caycay543 on Thu 29 Jul, 2010

  • please please pleas come to tunbridge wells i know it sounds silly as its not a huge place were u can play at a good venue but ive tried for tickets for brighton and london but know luck guess your soo amazing i cant get tickets. good luck guys keep the fantastic work up :)

    Posted by Tom96 on Thu 29 Jul, 2010

  • Congratulations, gents! Well deserved....

    Posted by skolbinger on Wed 28 Jul, 2010

  • Probably saveli, to answer your question. Or Savelum. Your choice.

    Posted by AnticDisposition on Wed 28 Jul, 2010

  • im addicted,cannot get enough of it.. have my mam attached to the album too :P it keeps her sane ha!! Loved you guys at Oxegen,who's eminem sure!!! really wanna see you's soon again :D LOVE LOVE LOVE This album.. my number 1 by far :) X

    Posted by NiamhLovesTheSons on Wed 28 Jul, 2010

  • Hi guys. I'm just trying to get a hold of Marcus and it's too late to call Penny. If you see this, have him call me if Laura wants to hang out while she's in town. Love you guys. You make this old lady's heart sing!

    Posted by cjackson on Tue 27 Jul, 2010

  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COME TO VANCOUVER!

    Posted by cameronwilliams on Mon 26 Jul, 2010

  • COME TO VANCOUVER!!! YOU WILL LOVE THIS CITY, AND I GUARANTEE YOU WILL SELL-OUT TWO SHOWS HERE. COME TO VANCOUVER!!!

    Posted by cameronwilliams on Mon 26 Jul, 2010

  • I do a mother/daughter trip with my children when they turn 16. My daughter Maddie turns 16, June of 2011. She wants to go wherever you will be for her trip. Please be in the states!!!! Maddie is a 15 year old singer/songwriter/guitarist with her own CD and performance schedule. She absolutely "worships" your musicianship! (and so does her mom!)

    Posted by lfshuler on Mon 26 Jul, 2010

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