No, folks, these folkies don't wanna rule the world, though they may well anyway. Mary Magpie faves Mumford And Sons have had my attention since I saw them at Radio City Music Hall earlier this year, and an excellent sophomore album hasn't hurt.
At the Radio City Amnesty International gig, they shared the stage with Coldplay, but apparently that didn't translate into lifelong friendship. Marcus Mumford had this to say to GQ about being the next Chris Martin and friends: "Oh, God. Is that appealing? Not really. No disrespect to Coldplay. But we want to do things pretty differently. It’s not about being as big as we can be. We don’t want to conquer anything"
There is that, there is also that nobody has a single nice thing to say about Coldplay. Even Bono trashed the bedwetters. Marina And the diamonds didn't run into them once during her support on the US leg of the 2012 world tour. We may all disagree about many things over the years but I think we will never be able to agree on anything as much as we agree that Coldplay are passive-aggressive egocentric bedwetters, who suck live at almost inhuman proportions and keep on smiling at your face where performing their very best Uriah Heep "'Ever so 'umble'" barefaced lying about what they think they are and who they think they are while the truth shines through every time they are stupid enough to open their mouth.
The problem with Coldplay isn't simply that they are Public School Boys, I'm a Public School Boy myself, and I am normal. The problem with CP is that they are WETS… they are like the boys who squealed to the teachers and licked the headboys boots. They are bootlickers. If the Mumford et fils are Public School boys they are the jolly good sports type, but they are more like recent Oxford graduates, who really, don't need to be bothered with the power plays of the music business, and would rather be left to their own devices if it is all the same to you.