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Concert Review: Mumford & Sons Ride ‘Delta’ During U.S. Tour Opener in Philly

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Mumford & Sons have come a long way from their raw and rustic roots to have happily come no way at all.  Even though the British quartet smoothed and softened elements of the rough, intimate folk of their 2007 origin story to include flickering arena-rock guitars (on 2015’s “Wilder Mind”) and windy synths (2018’s “Delta”), their newest gigs stress the same homey, confidential vibe as  in the past. Even the tales of death and discord that “Delta” brings to Mumford’s joyous lyrical mien seem gleeful when played with a familial smile.

When Mumford & Sons opened their U.S. tour at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on Friday night, it was as if the hooting and plucking ensemble were busking outside an aged London pub. It was a really nice pub, with pricey lighting, but still.

Barrel-chested vocalist Marcus Mumford wasted no time in making the rectangular, arena-centered stage his own. When he wasn’t commencing concert proceedings with the hard-strummed, slow-building “Guiding Light,” the main Mumford was running to man sets of drums (on “Lover of the Night”), leap into crowds, flash video cameras at the audience and beam like a genial host. He wasn’t ham-fisted or unsubtle about his outward reach (a la the similar-sounding Chris Martin). It was as if Mumford had opened his arms wider than usual to embrace his crowd, and they flocked and nestled comfortably, even to his surprise. “You guys are amazing,” he told the Philly audience, with what seemed like genuine shock, awe and warmth.

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Returning to that “similar sounding” comment: In turning its subtly contagious choruses epic and electric, elements of Mumford & Sons’ melodies came across in that grey area between U2 and Coldplay. What M&S have done to cloak that grand flange in concert is heighten the roles of its usual folksy tools, and occasionally put them through FX pedals. Now, fast banjos (courtesy Winston Marshall), bright brass and searing violin replace the delay-heavy chime so familiar to the Edge and his possible influence on “Babel” and “Guiding Light.”

Ted Dwane’s aggressively plucking of a double bass while Ben Lovett hammered a piano through the coda of “Little Lion Man” gave that song a feel of elevation and propulsion familiar to Cold2 (or UPlay), but without Bono’s dogged earnestness. Instead, a craggy Mumford yelled out highly personal refrigerator magnet poetry (“Your grace is wasted in your face / Your boldness stands alone among the wreck / Now learn from your mother / Or else spend your days biting your own neck”) while pounding out a rhythm with a drum’s foot pedal.

Hewing close to their folksy beginnings meant homey touches on gently torrid tunes such as an unplugged “Timshel,” where all gathered around one microphone, or bringing back opening act Maggie Rogers to give the spiritualized “Awake My Soul” a rounder, sensual feel.

Utilizing a primarily all-white lighting rig during the show gave the entire concert a naked purity, and turned the long, stark plane of the stage with its winged sides into a cross between a boxing square and an abandoned ship. That newer songs such as a shivering “The Wild” touched upon a sense of finality (“We saw birth and death / Can’t we be still … I think it’s the wild / Puts the fear of God in me”) put baritone singer Mumford’s wispy highs, raspy lows and ponderous yelps into lonelier perspective. He wasn’t just singing to rouse, as he had in the past. Mumford was singing to plead and to pray.

That doesn’t mean that Mumford & Sons played the entire show as if standing by a campfire in a coffeehouse, or kneeling in a chapel. Instead, they brought the boldly audacious, widescreen electronica of “Delta” down to the bite-sized, while cranking up the volume and power chords of their older tunes.

Though overlong and ripe, the new album’s title track concluded the night’s proceedings with the proper amount of wave-crashing cymbals and breathy vocalizing. Another new cut, “Picture You,” started off as a sultry synth-ballad with a click track and wound up in a cacophony of noise and figurative and literal fireworks. The lowest of “Delta’s” lo-fi numbers, “Darkness Visible,” was good, old-fashioned, loud garage rock with a shiny piano plink. That sort of glowing force helped Mumford & Sons to get truly jiggy with a rustic “The Cave” and the hyper-Celtic “Roll Away Your Stone,” while enhancing guitarist Marshall’s mix of stinging leads and Duane Eddy-ish twang during “Tompkins Square Park.”

Mumford even allowed himself to shout out Philadelphia football lore for the Super Bowl-winning Eagles when he stated that the quiet but stormy “Believe” was about that very championship game. “Actually, it’s about soccer. They’re all about soccer, really.”

For all that was epic and earthen about Mumford & Sons on Friday, they never outstretched or overstayed their welcome. Each tune was punctual and neatly tucked beneath a bedrock of rumbling rhythms, taut brass, soulful violin (courtesy Tom Hobden), elegant keyboard and guitar structures — all so that Mumford could wail, want, hail and hoorah.

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The tour is in support of the band’s fourth album ‘Delta’, released on 16 November.

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Mumford & Sons have announced details of a massive and “ground-breaking” UK and world arena tour, kicking off in November 2018 and running into 2019.

The much-acclaimed British band , who recently shared new single ‘Guiding Light’ and announced their upcoming fourth album Delta – released on 16 November – will be hitting the road for their most ambitious and far-reaching tour to date.

Mumford’s Winston Marshall said of the new record: “I think at the beginning [of recording the album] we kind of fell back in love with the old instruments we didn’t play on Wilder Mind like the acoustic stuff and the more folky instruments but [we were] conscious [about] how we can make these instruments sound not like these instruments which opened up a whole new world for us…”

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Frontman Marcus Mumford added: “On this record it’s felt like there have been no boundaries creatively.”

Over 800,000 tickets will go on sale for Mumford & Sons’ 60 dates around the world, where the band will perform on what a press release describes as a “ground-breaking stage right across the middle of the room”.

The band’s full upcoming UK and world tour dates are below. Tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday, 12 October.

Mumford & Sons Play the following tour dates:

16 November – Dublin, 3 Arena 18 November – Belfast, SSE Arena 20 November – Glasgow, SSE Hydro 21 November – Manchester, Manchester Arena 23 November – Birmingham, Genting Arena 24 November – Sheffield, Fly DSA Arena 25 November – Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena 27 November – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena 28 November – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 29 November – London, O2 Arena 1 December – Leeds, First Direct Arena 2 December – Liverpool, Echo Arena 7 December – Philadelphia, Wells Fargo Center 9 December – Boston, TD Garden 10 December – New York, Madison Square Garden 14 December – Washington DC, Capital One Arena 17 December – Toronto, Scotiabank Arena

12 January – Auckland, The Outer Fields at Western Springs 15 January – Brisbane, Entertainment Centre 18 January – Sydney, Qudos 22 January – Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl 24 January – Adelaide, Entertainment Centre 27 January – Perth, RAC Arena 27 February – Providence, Dunkin Donuts Center 28 February – Hartford, XL Center 2 March – Albany NY, Times Union Center 4 March – Montreal, Bell Centre 5 March – Ottawa, Canadian Tire Center 8 March – Buffalo, KeyBank Center 9 March – Cleveland, Quicken Loans Arena 11 March – Columbus, Nationwide Arena 12 March – Lexington, Rupp Arena 14 March – Pittsburgh, PPG Paints Arena 16 March – Charlottesville, John Paul Jones Arena 17 March – Raleigh, PNC Arena 18 March – Charleston, North Charleston Coliseum 20 March – Atlanta, State Farm Arena 22 March – Nashville, Bridgestone Arena 23 March – Birmingham, BJCC 25 March – Indianapolis, Bankers Life Field House 27 March – Detroit, Little Caesars Arena 29 March – Chicago, United Center 30 March – Madison, Kohl Center 31 March – Milwaukee, Fiserv Forum25 April – Lisbon, Altice Arena 27 April – Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi 29 April – Milan, Medialanum Forum 1 May – Munich, Olympiahalle 3 May – Vienna, Stadthalle 5 May – Basel, St. Jakobshalle 7 May – Paris, Zenith 8 May – Luxembourg, Rockhal 9 May – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome 11 May – Berlin, Mercedes Benz Arena 13 May – Frankfurt, Festhalle 15 May – Cologne, Lanxess Arena 17 May – Copenhagen, Royal Arena 18 May – Gothenburg, Scandinavium 19 May – Oslo, Spektrum 21 May – Stockholm, Ericsson Globe.

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Move over, Pete Townshend!

Delta Airlines has been accused of “purposefully” smashing a musician’s Martin acoustic guitar after she found the instrument’s splintered remains in its hard case following her flight.

Unlike rock legend Townshend — guitarist for The Who who destroyed more than 35 guitars in 1967 alone — Madi Diaz, 37, was shocked to find her own string instrument had met the same fate.

“Truly devastated by the damage done by @Delta to my 20-year-old martin guitar,” Diaz wrote on X. 

“So many memories just gone. Absolutely beyond devastated. Please repost. @Delta needs to be held responsible.”

In a video accompanying the tweet, Diaz panned over the broken guitar showing the extent of the damage while reminiscing on the memories she shared while playing it — including touring with Harry Styles.

“Delta, this is unfathomable and just so devastating,” the singer said in the short video posted along with detailed photographs.

“This is completely unfixable. I will never play this guitar again and I’m just absolutely shocked at the treatment of this instrument.”

In an Instagram story, she wrote: ”From my dorm room in college to stages with @Harry_Styles this guitar has been with me through ALL OF IT.”

Diaz had also taped Styles’ song “Medicine” to the guitar so she could remember it during her performance — with the paper left in shreds.

“20 years of memories — all the tours and records and songs written on this guitar. Shattered by carelessness. I’m absolutely heartbroken,” Diaz added.

In the 39-second clip, Diaz noted that a red “Fragile” sticker on the case appeared to have been “scratched off purposefully” while X users echoed her fury.

“It literally looks like someone did this on purpose to @madidiaz guitar…how does this happen?” fellow singer Jamie Floyd replied.

“This is the way she makes her living..and someone smashed it in..on your watch. Make this right.”

“It was even in a solid hard shell case. Damage like this is not accidental by any means.. you have to try to do that,” another added in the comments.

Delta apologized to Diaz on X for the “long wait” for its response and asked the singer to contact it in a private message.

The airline also issued a statement to the Sun saying, “Delta apologizes to Madi for the damage to her instrument.”

“We’re in contact with her team to try to make this right,” they added in the statement.

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Her guitar was smashed on a Delta flight a day before opening for Kacey Musgraves. The internet rallied around her.

Indie artist Madi Diaz discovered Delta Airlines ruined her guitar a day before kicking off tour with Kacey Musgraves. The internet rallied for a response. Musicians say it's a common issue.

A day before kicking off her 14-day European tour opening for Kacey Musgraves, indie artist Madi Diaz opened her guitar case after landing in Dublin. But she called what she found inside “unfathomable” and “devastating.”

In photos and videos posted on social media, Diaz shows her 20-year-old Martin acoustic guitar significantly damaged, with cracks throughout the body, large gashes and holes on the sides and back, and the wood splintered throughout.

The posts went viral, sparking a grassroots campaign among fans and fellow musicians for Delta Airlines to make things right. It’s also prompted a new wave of dialogue from musicians about how difficult it can be to fly on any airline with gear because of issues with checking guitars, drums, horns, and more.

Diaz, 37, is a singer-songwriter from Nashville who has been on the scene since the early aughts, touring with The Civil Wars. She grew up in Lancaster County, where she began her music career. Her songs were featured on shows like Pretty Little Liars . In 2009, she was named one of SXSW’s “ buzziest acts ” by Paste Magazine. In early 2023, Diaz joined Harry Styles’ “Love On Tour” band as a guitar and backing vocalist for the show’s European leg.

Her now-mangled Martin acoustic guitar was by her side through it all, she said. Taped to its side, it still has handwritten lyrics to Styles’ song, “Medicine,” which Diaz jotted down on tour to make sure she would get them right.

“From my dorm room in college to stages with Harry Styles, this guitar has been with me through all of it,” Diaz wrote on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. “I’m truly devastated by the treatment of my instrument. Insurmountable loss. I don’t know how to begin to replace something like this.”

In the aftermath, Diaz documented the damage on social media, tagging the airline and asking others to do the same. Musicians, including Musgraves — who sang on Diaz’s 2023 song, “Don’t Do Me Good” — shared it, too. Diaz’s initial post was viewed nearly 2 million times on X alone.

“I bought the most heavy duty case I could find,” Diaz wrote. “My theory for 20 years was that our instruments are meant to travel to help tell our stories. Lesson learned? I’m not in the position to financially handle renting gear wherever I go — but I’m also not in the position to lose so much.”

Diaz isn’t the only artist conflicted about the best way to tour.

For years, musicians have complained about airlines mishandling their gear, the high costs that come with traveling with instruments, and the risks involved. Besides often being expensive, musical instruments also often come with high sentimental value. Damages can bring their value down and impact a musician’s bottom line, since they need their gear to perform.

“We grow up knowing the instrument itself has a soul and you bond with it. You spend all those years in a practice room all alone, except for your feelings and psychology and your instrument – it has a bonding quality,” cellist Lynn Harrell told the Guardian in 2020. “So when something happens to the instrument monetarily, that’s one thing. But the feeling that as a custodian of an instrument with hundreds of years of life, you failed – that is a scar on your soul for the rest of your life.”

Harrell said he used to check his cello, but the risk became too great. He’s since started buying the instrument its own seat next to him on flights — an increasingly common tactic that can be safer, but is cost-prohibitive and can sometimes result in confusion

Musicians say it’s a Catch-22 when they’re trying to tour.

Tim Hildebrand, who plays guitar for the Philadelphia ska group, Catbite , says Diaz’s experience reminded him of several of his own.

In recent years, Catbite has frequently toured internationally, flying to Japan, Australia, and Europe. This year, the band has already flown over 40 times.

“It’s super stressful with trying to find the cheapest way to get your stuff from point A to B, and with trying to figure out what the airline’s policy is,” Hildebrand said. Catbite typically checks its gear in hard-shelled cases made for travel. “We just keep our fingers crossed that our gear isn’t in shreds or lost when we get to our final destination.”

But despite his efforts to protect his gear, Hildebrand’s fears came true in Heathrow Airport last year during the band’s first United Kingdom tour, when his guitar was nowhere to be found.

“It took an hour to finish making a claim. I had to borrow a guitar for our first show,” Hildebrand said. “Luckily, they found it about 30 hours later. And super luckily, we were still in the London area and we were able to get it so I’d have a guitar for the tour.”

Diaz has said the damages to her guitar are irreparable. A rep for Diaz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, a Delta spokesperson said the airline was in touch with Diaz’s team.

“We apologize to Madi for the damage to her instrument,” the statement said. “We are continuing our review of this event and remain in contact with her team to make it right and in resolving any outstanding items.”

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