Mumford & Sons : Thistle and Weeds & Dust Bowl Dance : Rough Trade : 4.11.08

Mumford and Sons play two amazing new songs live at Rough Trade East, London E1 on 4 November 2008.

Marcus & co were performing instore to celebrate the release of their second EP, Love Your Ground.

The new songs featured here are Thistle and Weeds and Dust Bowl Dance.

Sadly, due to my memory card being full, Dust Bowl Dance has the end missing which is unfortunate, as the story has a denouement - but, hey, go see them live and find out what happens at the end!

Mumford and Sons' very lovely new EP was released on 3 November on the super cool Chess Club label on 10" vinyl. I would advise buying a copy very soon, as the debut EP has now sold out and Love Your Ground, no doubt, will follow suit.

Update: Both songs are now available on Mumford & Sons amazing debut album, Sigh No More, along with the singles Little Lion Man and Winter Winds.

Another update: 19 months ago I saw this amazing band for the first time (at this gig); playing to a couple of hundred people in a record store in East London. For months afterwards I was banging on about them to anyone that would listen, saying "These guys are going to be big!" "Yeah right", they said, "Sounds like an antique dealers or something". Well people, last weekend the 'antique dealers' packed 18,000 people into the John Peel Stage tent at Glastonbury. 18,000 people that knew every word of almost every song. I hate to say I told you so but.... Well done lads, you deserve it!