"Being in Mumford & Sons was exhilarating."

[holyzombiejesus]

The banjo player from Mumford & Sons has finally quit the band after doing something more dickheaded than being in Mumford & Sons. He writes about it here and it's one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

I loved those first tours. Bouncing off a sweaty stage in an Edinburgh catacomb we then had to get to a gig in Camden by lunch the next day. We couldn't fit all four of us and Ted's double-bass into the VW Polo. I think it was Ben who drew the short-straw and had to follow by train with his keyboard. I remember blitzing it down the M6 through the night, the lads asleep beside me. We made it but my voice sadly didn't, completely shot by exhaustion, I had to mime my harmonies. Being in Mumford & Sons was exhilarating.

On stage, to my left Ted, a roaring bear, with his double-bass flying high above him. To my right Ben, with his unparalleled passion for music, pounding at the keys. And Marcus leading us with all the might of a hurricane or all the tenderness of a breeze, depending on what the song demanded. What a blessing it was to be so close to such talent as theirs. It will be with immense pride that I look back at my time with Mumford & Sons. A legacy of songs that I believe will stand the test of ages. What we've achieved together has vastly exceeded the wildest fantasies of this shitkicker from Mortlake.

Over the course of 24 hours it was trending with tens of thousands of angry retweets and comments. I failed to foresee that my commenting on a book critical of the Far-Left could be interpreted as approval of the equally abhorrent Far-Right.

Rather predictably another viral mob came after me, this time for the sin of apologising. Then followed libellous articles calling me "right-wing" and such. Though there's nothing wrong with being conservative, when forced to politically label myself I flutter between "centrist", "liberal" or the more honest "bit this, bit that".

For me to speak about what I've learnt to be such a controversial issue will inevitably bring my bandmates more trouble. My love, loyalty and accountability to them cannot permit that. I could remain and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I've already felt that beginning.

Silly cunt.

https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255

[dissolute ocelot]

Classic non-apology. Mate, you endorsed a book that the LA Times called "supremely dishonest" by someone who's been accused of joining far-right groups to try and get in fights with antifa. And yet he still insists he's a centrist.

[Kankurette]

'Mighty hurricane'.

[SteveDave]

What will he do for money now he's not in everybody's favourite posh folk troop?

[Pauline Walnuts]

Inherit it?

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

His total lack of self-awareness and perspective is amazing. I particularly enjoyed his clumsily florid take on what it was like to be caught up in the searing white heat of playing live with Mumford & Sons.

[Chicory]

He did say he had to play next to a roaring bear.

[Neomod]

Thank fuck I've never knowingly heard a note of this cunt's band.

[jobotic]

The song I know is actually by The Stereophonics

Guaranteed to be a candidate for Laurence Fox's party, whatever it's called.

[non capisco]

Not sure you can be a shitkicker if you come from Mortlake, mate. It's like saying "this hayseed from Chiswick".

[shiftwork2]

One of the very few times Serge actually became angry was when relating how much he hated Mumford & Sons.  Christ he was good.

[holyzombiejesus]

Not sure you can be a shitkicker if you come from Mortlake, mate. It's like saying "this hayseed from Chiswick".

I googled Mortlake.

This shitkicker from "a suburban district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes".

[Butchers Blind]

Amazing that being in Mum & Sons isn't the worst thing you've done.

[The Mollusk]

Not sure you can be a shitkicker if you come from Mortlake, mate. It's like saying "this hayseed from Chiswick".

I was in Richmond today for the first time in years (for work, I wouldn't fucking choose to be there) and foolishly paid £7 for what I assumed would be a nice hearty pub brunch but was actually a small and twatty portion of nothing. I hate that place. Years back I remember having work in Barnes and I overheard a floppy haired rugby shirt wearing child ask his father "daddy can we go to Pret?", I think that says it all about that part of the city. Cunts.

[sevendaughters]

The song I know is actually by The Stereophonics

Guaranteed to be a candidate for Laurence Fox's party, whatever it's called.

His dad is funding Fox. It's all part of the same elite hedge fund grift.

[jobotic]

Ha, what a bunch of cunts.

And they own us all.

[Mobius]

I grew up in Hounslow and always hated people from Richmond.

[jobotic]

The Solzhenitsyn quotes and comparisons are hilarious. The self importance.

Horrible anti-semite of course, but that's fine and dandy if you're not a socialist.

[peanutbutter]

Marshall, the son of a fabulously rich investor, had started playing electric guitar at age 13, inspired by Blink-182 and ZZ Top's 1973 album Tres Hombres; he started a ZZ Top cover band that also played songs by his other favorite band, Audioslave. Unlike the other three future Mumfords, he had no interest in jazz – "the lowest form of art," he says wickedly.

He had a singularly intense O Brother, Where Art Thou? experience. "Watching it was fucking the end of me. It was like, 'That is the music I want to make.'"

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mumford-sons-rattle-and-strum-78883/

[chveik]

Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers.

sounds like the worst music ever made

[BlodwynPig]

I was in Richmond today for the first time in years (for work, I wouldn't fucking choose to be there) and foolishly paid £7 for what I assumed would be a nice hearty pub brunch but was actually a small and twatty portion of nothing. I hate that place. Years back I remember having work in Barnes and I overheard a floppy haired rugby shirt wearing child ask his father "daddy can we go to Pret?", I think that says it all about that part of the city. Cunts.

That child, readers, was me

[BlodwynPig]

sounds like the worst music ever made

FINISH HIM!!!

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

I googled Mortlake.

This shitkicker from "a suburban district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes".

Mortlake is probably the poshest area of an already very posh area.


Isn't his a hedge fund manager who funds GB News and cunts like Lozza Fox? The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

[Kankurette]

Billie Holiday had more talent in her little toe than Mumford & Sons have in their entire bodies, they can fuck right off sneering about jazz.

ETA: did not know Marcus' parents hate the gays either.

[Greg Torso]

Not really familiar with Mumford & Sons but I imagine they permanently dress in longjohns and bowler hats, four of them play the sousaphone and they are trying to bring apartheid to Surrey.

[steveh]

Hadn't known until this that his hedge fund running dad with a net worth of £630m co-edited The Orange Book, which was responsible for the the rightward-lurch of the Lib Dems, gave a ton of cash to the Leave campaign and also to Michael Gove's leadership campaign. He also funds Unherd and is one of the investors in GB News.

[Captain Z]

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[Sebastian Cobb]

hard to imagine a banjo player could be racist.

[Pancake]

Thank fuck I've never knowingly heard a note of this cunt's band.

lol (where's the fucking emojis on this board??)

[Pauline Walnuts]

Hadn't known until this that his hedge fund running dad with a net worth of £630m co-edited The Orange Book, which was responsible for the the rightward-lurch of the Lib Dems, gave a ton of cash to the Leave campaign and also to Michael Gove's leadership campaign. He also funds Unherd and is one of the investors in GB News.

Well, he always was the less posh one in the band, always passing the port the wrong way.