Marcus Mumford Announces Mumford & Sons Tour

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Marcus Mumford joins Klein/Ally Show to talk about the band's intimate new tour.

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00:001067 k-rock Klein Alley show we only let very important very successful people in our studios minus ourselves and

00:06Marcus Mumford is here for an announcement that will change your life forever. How's that? Did I oversell it?

00:13Surprise surprise our bands gonna play some shows. Hell. Yeah, we're very relieved and we're gonna start small and

00:20Intimate and we're calling it the tour before the tour. We're gonna play theaters all over the place

00:26Wait, so you're not talking massive venues like you will be playing when I'm sure you go on tour to support the album

00:31We're gonna play intimate intimate little thing. We're gonna play the Palladium in Los Angeles. What? Yeah, and we're gonna play

00:37The forum in London and these little spots which is where we kind of cut our teeth

00:42you know these rooms that we haven't had the opportunity to play loads and it felt like a good way to

00:47sort of warm ourselves up and and play some of these new songs in an intimate setting before

00:55Bigger ones later in the year. So is that so you get the bad out in front of smaller crowds before you?

01:04Yeah, you guys don't need to like brush up you guys know what you're doing

01:08No, I think we just really wanted to take the opportunity to play small venues because we love them

01:13We love small venues like we grew up on small venues. We you know, our music belongs in those as well as big ones

01:19So there are more nerves when you are going into a smaller place where you start really seeing the faces of the people then when

01:25You're in a massive place where it's just a sea of kind of hair

01:28Yeah, the big ones especially the outdoor big ones can feel like a little more anonymous

01:33Especially if you're quite far away from the crowd like Glastonbury, you're like 50 meters away from the crowd, you know

01:39But in these places you're right you can smell each other

01:43Yeah

01:43I also feel like people are more aware of the intimacy and they are more willing to put their phones away

01:48And simply be present in the experience and that must feel refreshing for you as a performer. Yeah, I think so

01:54I think you can be deliberate about asking for moments without phones

01:57But I also get the instinct to you know, want to capture it

02:00So I'm not I'm not too much of it

02:02I'm not very Dave Chappelle on that if you see a Mumford and Sons

02:05You're gonna want everyone to know you saw Mumford and Sons, especially if they're at the Palladium

02:09That'll be on March 20th. And then you've got these other shows happening Chicago and Toronto Brooklyn as you mentioned

02:16Back on the other side of the pond. This is so cool all supporting the album, which will be out on March 28th

02:22it's Rushmere the first album Mumford and Sons had out in seven years the band's back together and

02:27It's so exciting

02:28Palladium show what what are you gonna demand?

02:31What is the one thing you'll demand is in your dressing room because when you first start out in these small venues you could make

02:35No demands you just showed up. Oh

02:37Do you know what? I think I'm gonna treat myself that night to a new pair of sneakers. Whoa

02:43Yeah, yeah new but just just Vance nothing fancy nice nothing vintage nothing cool for sure I

02:51Just a nice box fresh pair of sneaks. That is a nice feeling

02:56The big announcement from Marcus Mumford here on k-rock

02:59Everything is gone and then you hit the tour again and you have some tour rituals right that you do before you head out

03:04Yeah, I've started warming up

03:06Because we're gonna play a lot of shows this year and I want my voice to survive

03:09So I've started taking that more seriously actually

03:12True or false speaking of warming up. You already ran three miles today. This is true

03:16Yeah, this is true. But how did you know that three because I saw you running on the way here says Marcus Mumford

03:21I'm pouring with sweat. Yeah

03:24my I

03:25Someone's been helping me with my voice and how to protect it for the long term and cardio is a big part of it

03:31Apparently really like a grown-up job now for me. So it wasn't just

03:36A phase into my professional. Yeah, I'm taking it a bit more seriously. Yeah, now you're real do like Bono now

03:42Yeah, I'm gonna get like special teas and it was a tune-up

03:46Well, anyway, listen love having you at k-rock you're like family here support. I just don't need to tell you this

03:50I'm sure this Palladium show will sell out instantly if people are already asking tickets. How do I get them?

03:55How can I get in all the details? I'm sure will be up on the socials k-rock and Mumford and Sons as well

03:59It's absolutely right. Very cool. Thanks for stopping by always good to see you to take care

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