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Mumford & Sons have revealed their chosen name is a complete "ball-ache".
They've made a few revelations lately regarding their image and past sound, even going as far to say they hated the banjo for a while.
Speaking to NME, Marcus Mumford said: “I definitely regret the band name. If I’d known it was going to go this way, I would have wanted to call it anything other than my last name. It’s a ball-ache. We thought about changing it, but it’s a bit late now.”
They also discussed their change of image with keyboardist Ben Lovett saying: “I think it would be fair to say that we’ve noticed that in some of our old photos we look like absolute idiots. There were so many car crashes. We look like us in our photos now. I don’t even want to describe how we used to look.”
One thing they are keen to stress however is they didn't consciously change their clothing choices: We didn’t sit down and say, ‘Let’s wear leather guys.’ Over an eight-year period you behave differently. You go to different places, you probably have different friends. You wear different clothes. We didn’t hire a stylist and say, ‘Let’s rebrand ourselves.'”
Mumford & Sons are the third headliners or this year's Reading + Leeds festivals, alongside The Libertines and Metallica. For tickets and more information, click here.
