Brit award winners set for Moray gig
Read full article at source: The Northern Scot
FRESH from their Brit Awards success in London, folk rock band Mumford & Sons have confirmed they are taking to the stage in Moray for a gig at the beginning of March.
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It is the second major musical coup of 2011 for The Loft, Kinloss, which last month saw Scottish band Glasvegas play to a sell-out crowd.
Mumford & Sons this week won the Brit Awards’ most prestigious gong, The Mastercard British Album of the Year, for their debut ‘Sigh No More’. The disc has sold one million copies in the UK, and almost that number again in the US.
The four-piece had earlier performed their song ‘Timshel’ at the glitzy show at the O2 Arena, which was broadcast live on ITV.
Mumford & Sons’ gig at The Loft will be the fourth in the band’s north of Scotland tour, which also takes in Mull, Fort William, Ullapool, Stornoway, Inverness, Lerwick and Kirkwall.
The band had promised to return north, having played a number of successful small shows in bars and cafés around the Highlands two years ago.
Forming in London in 2007, Mumford & Sons consists of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, ‘Country’ Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane.
As well as the plaudits for their album, the band has also achieved considerable success in the UK singles chart with songs including ‘Little Lion Man’, ‘Winter Winds’, ‘The Cave’, and ‘Roll Away Your Stone’.
They are renowned for their energetic live performances, with band members regularly switching their array of instruments while on stage.
Tickets for the March 4 gig at The Loft, priced £20, are only available in person from Sound and Vision, Elgin. They go on sale at 10am today (Saturday), limited to two per person. (most likely already sold out….)
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