Mumford and Sons' Glastonbury sofa snub
Mumford and Sons frontman Marcus Mumford admitted the band haven't been asked back to Glastonbury since their 2013 headline performance – because he tried to steal a sofa from his dressing room.
Mumford and Sons haven't been asked back to Glastonbury since their frontman tried to steal a sofa from his dressing room.
Marcus Mumford has recalled attempting to take a piece of furniture from the world-famous music festival, when the group headlined the Pyramid Stage in 2013, because he was desperate for a "memento".
Speaking on the Table Manners podcast, he said: "I got kicked out of our dressing room. I wasn't allowed back in because I tried to steal furniture.
"I wanted a memento, so I tried to load the sofa into the back of my van."
However, Mumford and Sons haven't been invited back to Worthy Farm since they closed the event in 2013.
Quizzed on whether they had played at the Somerset-based site since, Marcus replied: "No."
Despite that, the lack of invite hasn't changed Marcus' opinion about the music extravaganza.
He said: "It's just the best festival on Earth.
"Every other festival tries to be Glastonbury. It's the OG."
Marcus previously told how he was thrown out of the festival after trying to take the sofa.
Speaking in 2016, he told Radio X: "We came off stage and I tried to nick a sofa from the dressing room - and got chucked out.
"They didn't let me back in.
"They'd just had enough of us by the end. And they said, 'Get out and don't come back.' "
The 38-year-old singer admitted the band's 2013 headline slot, which included performing a cover of The Beatles' song With a Little Help From My Friends alongside Vampire Weekend, "went well", which was in stark contrast to his previous performance at the festival.
He explained: "I'd had a panic attack the last time we played Glastonbury ... so I was nervous about it anyway, because this was bigger, and so I was just relieved more than anything else.
"And then we did a big thing at the end with Vampire Weekend and a bunch of people and it went well.
"And then, we came off ... and I wanted a sofa! I really wanted a sofa."
