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The album went five times Platinum in the United Kingdom, four times in Australia, three times in the States, and twice in New Zealand.

The group continued to tour worldwide and ended up with eight Grammy nominations for their work. As the band continued to ride the success of Babel, they also made their way to Glastonbury festival where they played on the main stage — naturally, their performance received glowing reviews.

Much to fans concern, the band announced an indefinite hiatus in September , eventually leading to rumours of a break-up. I am also not overly against the old-timeyness vibe that dominated the early part of their career; a gimmick is not a crime. The Mumford schtick did its job and made the band a household name.

Why put effort into visually re-creating a time when white men were thriving at the expense of everyone else?

Why is this your golden age? But in , they were brought right back to those questions again: There was a small internet furor over a photo featuring three of the four members with none other than Jordan Peterson, a once-obscure psychology professor who has become a sort of spokesperson of traditional masculinity Marcus Mumford was not in the photo.

Peterson rose to fame after refusing to use the correct pronouns to refer to a student and has since transformed into a right-wing celebrity. It could be everywhere! Once more into the breach! Marshall may have left the band to shield his former bandmates from criticism, but in doing so he only highlighted questions that had been there from the start about whether the schtick was just for show.

This is a lazy argument, to say the least. Marshall said he plans to undertake new creative projects, "as well as speaking and writing on a variety of issues. Earlier this year Marshall co-founded Hong Kong Link Up, a charity that works to integrate Hong Kongers settling in Britain because of increasing political repression in the semi-autonomous Chinese city state. Facebook Twitter Email. I was like the bomb expert, Miller, had my little box of tricks — [drum]sticks, a mandolin.

We used an accordion case as a kick-drum, made snares out of paper stuck on tables. Laura would never say anything on stage so I'd do all the chatting. That got my stage banter sharpened. Mumford approached Marling's manager, Adam Tudhope, with White Blank Page and a few other tracks he had written, and Tudhope took him on. The band gathered around Mumford from there. Lovett was an old friend from King's College school in Wimbledon, Marshall he had first met as a teenager then reencountered in Edinburgh; Dwane they all knew through crossover work with Marling.

But we were energetic, and ambitious, and gave everything we could, and that got us a long way. By Lovett's count they've done 10 separate tours of the US alone. Today at the Hollywood Bowl the news is still very fresh that Babel has repeated the feat: a million copies sold in America, only this time much quicker, about six weeks after release.

There are bands out there who would find this a reasonable excuse to open the champagne. To fill the nearest pool with it, for backflips. When I mention the new achievement to Dwane, he hasn't heard about it. A casual disinterest in sales figures — is this for real? But he says: "A lot of bad music sells a million copies, I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

I don't think there's anything good that can come out of knowing. In the same way that we don't pay any attention to any of the negative stuff that comes our way, it's just as important not to pat ourselves on the back when commercial success is being talked about. The band, he tells me, wantto have the freedom to evolve as they make a third album, a fourth. Also to be able to do small-venue tours as well as big ones.

The next album, the next couple of albums after this, we know that it's going to take a musical turn. I touch on this with Mumford, and we discuss how his songwriting might alter given his recent wedding to Mulligan.

The band's most arresting tracks, for me, are the lovelorn ones, such as White Blank Page — and what effect will a happy marriage have on that? Mumford gives a small chuckle, and concedes I might have a point. The other guys were coming up with more ideas than I was. I ask Dwane what the new material sounds like. I ask Marshall, who says "it sounds a bit like the National, and a bit like the Band, without doing either of them justice".