Fireworks! A rock star podium! Winston Marshall’s roaring guitar solos (and louche electric blue suit)! After a rocky start to the tour, due to technical hitches, they seem reignited tonight. Marcus slips into the crowd as the band rocks out to ‘Ditmas’, a track from electric guitar-heavy third album ‘Wilder Mind’ throughout Mumfords sound surprisingly like a rock band, adding credence to the frontman’s insistence that they “came here to have a good time,” continuing the party Dizzee started.Īlthough there are sombre moments – an a capella ‘Forever’, a heart-wrenching ‘Wild Heart’ – there’s a celebratory air to the evening, a mood best summed up when Marcus asks, “Shall we stop fucking around then?”, before the band launches into ‘I Will Wait’, which sounds more explosive than any banjo-based pop song really has any right to. Funnily enough they ended up headlining, preceded by Dizzee, who proves their unlikely hype man.Īfter the Bow rapper’s ringing endorsement, Marcus and the lads open with a robust rendition of ‘Guiding Light’, taken from 2018’s eclectic fourth album ‘Delta’, while the career-spanning set sees the London band on impassioned form, clearly happy to be on home turf at the end of a sprawling world tour. Last weekend bestowed on us the return of The Strokes and Christine & The Queens’ impeccable headline set, while this weekend saw Dizzee rub shoulders with likes of Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons, who curated the Saturday line-up. “Big up Mumford & Sons!” So proclaims Dizzee Rascal at the end of his absurdly enjoyable main stage set at All Points East, the Hackney shindig set across two weekends in the borough’s Victoria Park.
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