Gigs & Festivals

Mumford & Sons announce extra Irish tour dates

By | Published on Tuesday 22 February 2011

Mumford & Sons

Waistcoat-wearing folk blokes Mumford & Sons, encouraged by their recent success at those pesky BRIT Awards, have added four Irish dates on to the end of their already sold out tour of the Scottish Highlands, on which they will be road testing song ideas for the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Sigh No More’.

On visiting lesser known, oft-neglected venues, they said in apparent unison: “We love touring Scotland and Ireland, going back to our Celtic routes, and wanted to take the chance to play some beautiful smaller towns that often get ignored on the more traditional touring routes. We figured that playing smaller shows would take us back to the beginning of our touring lives again”.

I assume they meant “Celtic roots”, but who cares? They finish: “We just wanna play gigs – big and small, and we always will as long as we live!”

Those tour dates in full (remember, all the Scottish ones are sold out):

2 Mar: Tobermory, Aros Hall
3 Mar:  Fort William, BA Club
4 Mar: Forres, The Loft
5 Mar: Ullapool, Village Hall
7 Mar: Stornoway, An Lanntair
8 Mar:  Inverness, Ironworks
9 Mar: Lerwick, Whiteness and Weisdale Hall
11 Mar: Kirkwall, St Magnus Cathedral
14 Mar: Cork, Savoy Theatre
15 Mar: Galway, Radisson
16 Mar: Limerick, Dolans
18 Mar: Dublin, Olympia



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