With great pleasure and pride Mumford & Sons will perform at this year’s – the  50th -Amnesty International Secret Policeman’s Ball. The Ball has been held annually since 1976 in celebration of all things free speech and will this year take place at New York’s Radio City Hall, it’s first time in a non-UK location, on 4th March. 

 

The band are joining a bill topped by Coldplay and hosted by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Russell Brand and the evening will include performances, collaborations, comedy sketches and stand-up routines and, UK folks, will be broadcast on Channel 4.

 

Tickets go on sale on Monday 30th January at www.ticketmaster.com.

 

For more information on the event visit Facebook.com/secretpoliceman and for more information on Amnesty International visit www.amnesty.org.

With great pleasure and pride Mumford & Sons will perform at this year’s – the  50th -Amnesty International Secret Policeman’s Ball. The Ball has been held annually since 1976 in celebration of all things free speech and will this year take place at New York’s Radio City Hall, it’s first time in a non-UK location, on 4th March. 

 

The band are joining a bill topped by Coldplay and hosted by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Russell Brand and the evening will include performances, collaborations, comedy sketches and stand-up routines and, UK folks, will be broadcast on Channel 4.

 

Tickets go on sale on Monday 30th January at www.ticketmaster.com.

 

For more information on the event visit Facebook.com/secretpoliceman and for more information on Amnesty International visit www.amnesty.org.

Happy New Year one and all! Hope you had and have a good one. 

 

Just a little note to point you in the direction of the Recommendations section in the Blog, lest you had not seen it yet… it’s a work in progress at the moment, but we will keep adding to it as and when newbies occur.

 

Peace out.

 

‘HQ x

Mumford & Sons have been nominated in 4 categories of the 54th Grammy Awards. All 4 nominations are for the band’s second US single The Cave, from their debut album Sigh No More.

 

The categories are:

 

Record Of The Year 

Song Of The Year 

Best Rock Performance 

Best Rock Song 

 

Wow. Pretty good way to brighten a drizzly December morning. The results of the awards will be announced at the ceremony on 12th February. You can watch the video for The Cave here. 

 

x

 

Ps. Thank you all for your congratulations messages so far!