{"id":295983,"date":"2026-02-13T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:31:10","slug":"its-our-favourite-pub-in-the-world-marcus-mumford-on-his-bands-impromptu-odonoghues-gig-and-the-irish-acts-that-inspire-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295983\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s our favourite pub in the world\u2019: Marcus Mumford on his band\u2019s impromptu O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s gig and the Irish acts that inspire them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe Mumford &amp; Sons frontman discusses making their new album, his love for Hozier, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan, and how ICE do not reflect the America \u2018we know and love\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane of Mumford &amp; Sons. Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tyImages_2220476989.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From left, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane of Mumford &amp; Sons. Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Marcus Mumford is in Berlin but he hints that he would rather be elsewhere. \u201cIt\u2019s minus 10 degrees here,\u201d he says, grimacing. \u201cUnbelievably cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mumford &amp; Sons are on promotional duties in the frozen German capital and the frontman laments that when they were leaving Britain, the sun was out and it was positively spring-like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mumford &amp; Sons frontman discusses making their new album, his love for Hozier, Damien Rice and Lisa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,280,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-295983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher","12":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}