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Oct 19, 2009 Updated Mar 25, 2010

UK folk rockers Mumford and Sons have let slip that they're heading to Oz next year.

The band, currently enjoying keenly-sought Feature Album status right here on ABC Dig Music for their debut Sigh No More, will be playing some Laneway Festival shows next year.

Lead vocalist Marcus Mumford let slip to triple j breakfast that the band were heading over in January, before hastily adding "Oh, maybe I'm not supposed to say that."

The Laneway Festival began quietly in 2004 in Caledonian Lane in Melbourne before gaining popularity and expanding to host events in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

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Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums), Country Winston Marshall, and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass, drums, guitar). The band formed in December 2007, rising out of what some in the media labeled the "West London folk scene" with other artists such as Laura Marling,...

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