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As well as a series of huge festival appearances this year, Mumford & Sons are also set to perform at their own Gentlemen Of The Road events - including one date with Primal Scream in Scotland. See full details below.

As previously reported, the band are due to release their third studio album Wilder Mind in May. The follow-up to the colossal-seller Babel will arrive on shelves on 5 May through Gentle Of The Road/Island Records. The band are already booked in at a number of some of the biggest festivals on the planet so far including Bonaroo, Open'Er, Rock Werchter and Reading and Leeds - but possibly even more intriguingly they are also staging their own events, complete with some truly bold bookings.

Joining the band in the series entitled Gentlemen Of The Road presents...The Stopovers will be everyone from The Foo Fighters, Primal Scream, The Flaming Lips, Ben Howard, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, My Morning Jacket, Alabama Shakes,  Lianne La Havas and Jenny Lewis. Tickets go on sale at 10am local time on the 6 March. For tickets to their US dates click here and for tickets to their UK dates see below.

The lineup for Gentlemen of the Road presents…The Stopovers announced so far includes....

Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA 5-6 June
Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Dawes, The Very Best, Jenny Lewis, Little May, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills.

Waverly, Iowa, USA 19th June- 20th June
Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, The Maccabees, The Very Best, Rubblebucket, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills.

Aviemore, Scotland, UK 31st July- 1 August
Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard, Primal Scream, The Maccabees, Simian Mobile Disco DJs, Lianne La Havas, Jack Garratt, King Charles, Honeyblood.

Walla Walla, Washington, USA 14th August -15th August
Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, The Vaccines, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills.

Salida, Colorado, USA 21st August- 22nd August
Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, The Vaccines, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills.

The band have also shared details on quite how bold their new sound is going to be. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the band preview their huge change in direction. The writer Patrick Doyle describes "U2-sized guitars, synths, spacey mellotrons and even some drum machines". Two particular moments particularly caught out eye:  'Ditmas' (a "catchy power chord thrasher") and 'Tompkins Square Park', "a vaguely Strokes-y breakup song"). From the sounds of things, Reading and Leeds are going to be in for a treat.

Mumford & Sons are also set to play:

11-14 June Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester Tennessee, USA
3 July Open'Er Festival Gydnia, Poland 
9-11 July Bilbao BBK Live, Spain 
10 July NOS Alive Festival Lisbon, Portugal 
7-9 August Squamish Squamish Valley, BC Canada
28-30 August Reading Festival 
28-30 Leeds Festival

Reading and Leeds Festival tickets are on sale now.