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MUMFORD & Sons announced a new UK tour onstage at Reading Festival. The tour, which sees the guys come to Manchester Arena on Sunday 6 December, will be an incredible finale to what has been a great year for the band.

Make sure you catch Mumford & Sons when they come to Manchester Arena on Sunday 6 December

Here are seven things that shook the summer for Mumford & Sons this year:

1. Back in June, Mumford & Sons returned to the Bonnaroofestival in Manchester, Tennessee to headline an event they hold very close to their hearts.

A carnival atmosphere greeted the returning heroes for their first festival of the Summer, where they managed to capture some behind-the-scenes festival fun for an unpredictably amusing video for The Wolf. Watch it here.

Bonnaroo was the first of an incredible thirteen headline festival performances this Summer.

2. The band arrived back in Europe for some breathtaking headline shows in some equally breathtaking locations.

A capacity crowd at Verona’s ancient Roman amphitheatre was followed by a performance amongst the woodland of Goffertpark in Nijmegen, and then two incredible nights at Berlin’s Waldbühne amphitheatre as the sun set in the shadows of the city’s Olympic Stadium.

These have been some of the band’s most memorable live performances to date.

3. On their travels, Mumford & Sons have made no secret of their love for new music. Hot new bands pepper the line-ups of The Stopovers across the globe, but one particular favourite is British artist, Shura.

Their new found love went as far as reimagining her track 2Shy, for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Have a listen here.

4. Aviemore, in the Highlands of Scotland, was the scene of the fifteenth of seventeen Gentlemen Of The Road Stopovers the band has curated and promoted to date, and the band’s first full British live performance since the release of their third album, Wilder Mind.

The Stopover line-ups this year have been stellar, including jaw-dropping performances from Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, Primal Scream, and The Maccabees.

5. The band smartly followed that up with two jubilant sold-out dates at the legendary Forum in LA, joined on stage by Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus, The Vaccines, and Jack Garratton the second night, to perform The Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams. Watch a fan recording here.

6. The band also managed to fit in a secret midnight performance at The Troubadour. Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello joined the band on stage, performing Bruce Springsteen’s Ghost Of Tom Joad to a fortunate few hundred fans. The evening concluded with Mumford & Sons, Tom Morello, Mark Hoppus, and T Bone Burnett covering Blink 182’s What’s My Age Again?

7. Earlier that week, the band visited the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live!and appeared in a ‘mockumentary’ alongside Kimmel: Behind The Mumfords. It told the story of the band’s fictional early days as a boy band called Mumtown, back in the '90s, featuring fifth member, Jimmy ‘Mum’ Kimmel.  Watch the five minute comedy skit here.

Make sure you catch Mumford & Sons when they come to Manchester Arena on Sunday 6 December.

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