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Mark vs The Mumfords

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Oct 21, 2010 Updated Oct 25, 2010

After berating indie darlings Pavement for ripping off his own band The Fall, Mark E Smith has set his sights on a new target.

Professional curmudgeon Smith's latest claim to infamy is throwing stuff at folk-rockers Mumford and Sons, who he's apparently none too keen on.

Speaking to Aussie street paper Brag, Smith said: "We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group warming up...and they were terrible...I said, 'Shut them ***** up,' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them."

Even when Smith's fellow bandmembers filled him in as to who his targets actually were, he remained unimpressed: "I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers." He said.

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Mumford & Sons are an English folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums), "Country" Winston Marshall (vocals, banjo, dobro), and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass, drums, guitar). The band formed in October 2007, rising out of what some in the media labelled the "West London folk scene" with other artists...

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