Mumford & Sons have made their return to Saturday Night Live – watch performances of ‘Rubber Band Man’ and ‘Here’ below.
The band released their sixth studio album ’Prizefighter’ last week, and on Friday (February 27), it officially became their fourth UK Number One album.
The following night, they were the musical guests on SNL for the fourth time in their career, and the first time since 2018. On an episode hosted by Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie, they were joined by Hozier and The National’s Aaron Dessner for ‘Rubber Band Man’, and later by Dessner again and Sierra Ferrell on ‘Here’.
Check out both performances here:
In the lead-up to SNL, the band also played an exclusive, unplugged, first come first served set at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, a show they only announced a few hours ahead of time on social media.
At the show, the band played without microphones, and performed six songs from ‘Prizefighter’, including the singles ‘Rubber Band Man’ and ‘The Banjo Song’, as well as classics such as ‘The Cave’ and ‘Awake My Soul’.
Mumford & Sons will be returning to BST Hyde Park this summer on July 4, with support from The War On Drugs. It will be their first show at the venue since they headlined in 2016, in a show that Marcus Mumford has told NME was “one of my favourite shows ever”.
“We’ve been gagging to do it again when the time was right, and now’s the time. Playing that place in our home town – it doesn’t get much better than that,” he added. Find any remaining tickets for the show here.
The band have also announced a North American tour for later in the year, with tickets for the shows on sale now – find yours here.
They kick off on June 2 at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena and play a run of 13 shows, concluding on June 22 in Boston. After a short run of European shows, they then return to North America on July 31 with a show in Shakopee, Minnesota, before a run of a further 20 shows, including three at New York’s Madison Square Garden, before finally wrapping at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on October 7. See the complete list of shows in the social media post above.
Speaking to NME in November, Marcus Mumford said the new LP “elevates” the band’s sound from ‘RUSHMERE’. “I feel like we’re in our prime and that we’re writing the best songs we’ve ever written,” he continued. “I don’t say that about every record, and I really feel strongly about this one.”