Few who were there could have foreseen that the band would last week win the British Album of the Year Brit award or spark huge queues of fans this weekend for a tour of “intimate” Scottish venues.
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How nu-folk became the latest new rock’n’roll
UST over two years ago, a rising band called Mumford & Sons crowded into an Edinburgh record shop and ran through five of their songs for a small crowd of fans and interested bystanders.
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