Pass notes No 2,868: Mumford & Sons

David Cameron is a fan. Mark E Smith definitely isn'tAge: As a band, three years old.Appearance: Waistcoats with guitars. (The guitars are also wearing waistcoats.)Family of greengrocers? Folk band. Made up of common, folksy folk, who went to common, folksy top public schools. Not, of course, that there's anything inherently wrong with musicians being privately educated. It's just a bit grating when one of them insists on going by the name "Country" Winston Marshall, and describes their song Ti...

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