She’s good, that Jo Whiley.

Yesterday she broadcast an interview with the band during which she got them to answer/confess to the following questions:

How did the Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers come about?
How do they choose singles from the album?
What are their favourite bands/songs?
How did they go about recording Babel?
What was the first record they bought?
Where were they when they first heard their own song on the radio?

You can listen again here. The interview starts at around 30 minutes in.

Continuing the Babel release celebrations, yesterday Marcus, Ben, Ted and Winston headed for the BBC Maida Vale studios for a Live Lounge special. Special in that it was longer than usual and it was live streamed from the Radio 1 website.

If you missed any of it and you’re reading from the UK, you can watch 29 minutes of highlights right here. If you can’t view the footage where you are you should still be able to listen again online here (forward to about 2 hours in).

Mumford & Sons Radio 1 Live Lounge setlist – 25.09.12
Roll Away Your Stone
Below My Feet
The Cave
Tesselate (Alt J cover)
Ghosts That We Knew
I Will Wait
Not Haste

Much love,
M&S HQ x

For all fans having trouble accessing pre-sale tickets. Just to let you know that our ticket-team are (and have been!) looking into this urgently.

The site has been completely overwhelmed with demand, so ticket sales have been staggered. But please keep checking back – pre-sale tickets aren’t sold out until they say Sold Out.

For all queries regarding email confirmations etc please find support details here: public.musicglue.com/stufftoknow.aspx

UPDATE FROM OUR TICKET TEAM: Cookies must be enabled on your computer to purchase tickets. If you’re experiencing other problems you can contact support@musicglue.com.

UPDATE 2: The fanclub password protected pre-sale ticket allocations for the following shows (below) have now sold out. There was overwhelming demand for tickets and the sheer volume of traffic caused the system to stagger sales. But if you didn’t manage to get tickets this time, do try again tomorrow morning when more tickets are due to be released for public sale at 9am.

November
Wednesday 21st – Torquay, Princess Theatre PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Thursday 22nd – Portsmouth, Guildhall PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Friday 23rd – Ipswich, Regent Theatre PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Sunday 25th – Dundee, Caird Hall PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Monday 26th – Carlisle, The Sands Centre PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Tuesday 27th – Llandudno, Venue Cymru PRE-SALE SOLD OUT

December
Tuesday 11th – London, O2 Arena PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Thursday 13th – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena PRE-SALE SOLD OUT
Saturday 15th – Belfast, Odyssey Arena PRE-SALE SOLD OUT

There is still limited pre-sale ticket availability for the following shows:

December
Tuesday 4th – Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
Wednesday 5th – Glasgow, SECC
Friday 7th – Birmingham, LG Arena
Monday 10th – Manchester, Manchester Arena
Sunday 16th – Dublin, The O2

Thank you for your patience.

M&S HQ x

We are very pleased to announce that the band will be heading back out on tour in the UK & Ireland this winter, in support of the new album Babel.

And just like the beautiful game, the tour will be split into two halves. Hope to see you in one of the following places…

November – Part One
Wednesday 21st – Torquay, Princess Theatre
Thursday 22nd – Portsmouth, Guildhall
Friday 23rd – Ipswich, Regent Theatre
Sunday 25th – Dundee, Caird Hall
Monday 26th – Carlisle, The Sands Centre
Tuesday 27th – Llandudno, Venue Cymru

December – Part Two
Tuesday 4th – Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
Wednesday 5th – Glasgow, SECC
Friday 7th – Birmingham, LG Arena
Monday 10th – Manchester, Manchester Arena
Tuesday 11th – London, O2 Arena
Thursday 13th – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
Saturday 15th – Belfast, Odyssey Arena
Sunday 16th – Dublin, The O2

Tickets go on general sale via tickets.www.mumfordandsons.com/ and general ticketing outlets 9am this Friday:

www.gigsandtours.com
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
www.ticketmaster.ie
www.gigsinscotland.com

M&S HQ x

Last night in London, Ben, Marcus, Winston and Ted got to celebrate the launch of the new album with a hometown headline show at London’s Roundhouse. The set was also streamed live worldwide.

If you missed it you can catch it again over here on the iTunes Festival homepage.

Here’s the setlist:

Lovers’ Eyes
Little Lion Man
White Blank Page
Not With Haste
Below My Feet
Timshel
Roll Away Your Stone
Lover of the Light
Thistle & Weeds
Ghosts That We Knew
Awake My Soul
Whispers in the Dark
Dust Bowl Dance
Encore:
Where Are You Now?
I Will Wait
The Cave

Big thanks to an amazing crowd and to everyone who tuned in.

M&S HQ x