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This Friday, get not one but two completely new issues of DIY!
Our May issue will be joined by a special separate 84 page festival guide.
Every month, dear readers, we bring you a new magazine. Well, not this month. This month, you get two - both our usual May issue, and an extra, completely different 84 page festival guide. Both available free in record shops, venues, bars and everywhere else you’d usually find us.
The banjos are out, but that’s not the only story to Mumford & Sons’ new chapter, as they front DIY’s May 2015 issue.
Out Friday 24th April in UK stockists and online, this month’s mag puts the focus on one of the world’s most beloved and hated bands in equal measure. In May’s cover feature, the group open up about their reputation and their desire to start afresh with new LP ‘Wilder Mind’.
Just how much have they really changed? What caused it? And what’s going to happen to those banjos? Turns out, every member of the band sees things differently.
They also dig into the slightly hazy stage in their career when members went on record to say they’d “split”. “It’s over,” guitarist Winston Marshall told reporters back in 2013. “We had a good time though.” Reps for the group quickly cleaned by the mess by countering Winston’s claims. “People were asking fucking stupid questions,” he says, two years on. “I was interviewed at a fucking aftershow. I was wasted. And then someone just got a fucking microphone out and asked about the band.” He then shuffles in his seat, and backtracks a little. “I don’t know. No… I mean yeah, we kind of split up,” he says.
“With the intention of probably getting back to record,” says bassist Ted Dwane, attempting to clarify.
“I mean yeah, but that was your intention!” says Winston, half-joking. “I don’t think you ever know when you’re in a band. It’s optional… You don’t know if the other boys want to do it, when they want to do it. It could be at any moment when someone turns around and says, ‘I’m gonna do something else for a bit’. Fair enough - you can’t really argue with that.”
It wasn’t just Winston making the split claim in 2013. Marcus Mumford said it too. As did Ben Lovett, who said he had “no idea” when they’d get back together. Asked directly if they truly called it quits, Marcus sits back and lets out a prolonged “naaaaah.” He does admit, however, that they wouldn’t have made ‘Wilder Mind’ without the space this hiatus afforded them. “We had to explain to people who wanted to see us live that we wouldn’t be touring for a while. And then people started circulating those rumours that we’d broken up and stuff. We thought, ‘We don’t care if people think we’ve broken up’. It just gave us a bit more time.”
Read more in the May 2015 issue of DIY, out 24th April.
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