“Our challenge to every other arena in the UK is simple: The O2 has taken a lead, now it's your chance to follow”
Mumford previously told us that he discovered the band through their NME The Cover interview: "I’d never heard of them but now we’re fucking obsessed with them"
As the band announce a huge London show with The War On Drugs for 2026, Marcus Mumford and Ben Lovett tell NME about what to expect and finding themselves fighting fit and "in their prime"
“We feel like we’re hitting our prime as a creative force"
The band head out on a European and UK tour next week
The song was produced by The National's Aaron Dessner
The artists are travelling together by train along with "the coolest house band we’ll ever get to play in"
"It was a thing that started out as friends in a van for this bootstrapping DIY sort of thing, now we’re selling out arenas," Matt Quinn tells NME about the road to 'Hope We Have Fun'
Their tours will donate £1 from every ticket sold to a trust that supports the live music ecosystem
“I went to Istanbul, drank coffee, smoked cigars and wrote poetry like a prick”
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