British folk rockers and Grammy Award winners Mumford & Sons visited SA at the end of Jan and we were lucky to be apart of the very first show held in Cape Town at the Grand Parade on Friday, 29 January 2016. The band is currently travelling the world on their Gentlemen of the Road tour, to promote their latest album, Wilder Mind, which came out in 2015. Local talents John Wizards, The Very Best and Beatenberg were chosen as the opening acts. It was a perfect summer night in Cape Town and all acts enjoyed a massive crowd as the gates opened early for the first of the 6 sold out shows. Despite the streams of bad reviews and comments on social media from many concert goers, hating on the long queues and such, this flaw was quickly overlooked when Mumford and Sons took to the stage. They opened with one of my fave’s “Snake Eyes” which hit like a ton of bricks to the heart, the guitar breakdown had us loosing ourselves. Marcus never missed a note, not even when plunging himself into the crowd during “Ditmas” consequently being chased by a security guard who was clearly very nervous that the crowd would tear him apart. The band went the extra mile, over the top in [...]
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