“We are all as individuals very interested in the idea of local community and in encouraging that through any venture we do,” Ben Lovett tells me. The idea of community, local businesses, and the people who make up such entities are at the heart of the Gentlemen. tour, the band’s eagerly awaited second album, meeting Ray Davies and Bob Dylan, and why they are ‘acoustic’ rather than ‘folk’. Last week Mumford & Sons were in Galway and Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane took time to talk about the ideas of the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover. We’ll be using the local bars and venues for aftershow parties, whilst working closely with the local people to get everyone involved in making these shows spectacular.”
When the shows were announced last month, the band said: “We’re keen to promote the town’s local businesses. The tour is animated by the idea of celebrating “the people, food and music that inhabit” each town they play in. tour to Salthill Park on Saturday June 9. Mumford & Sons - Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin ) Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums ) Country Winston Marshall (vocals, banjo, Dobro, guitar ) and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass, drums, guitar ) - will bring their Gentlemen of the Road Stopover. It’s an idea that comes through in the band’s name, but also in their approach to the current tour - the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover.
They have a strong belief in the ideas of community and locality. MUMFORD & SONS could be classed as idealists.
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