- 2025-10-28
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MUSIC
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Mumford & Sons Performs “Rubber Band Man” & Cover of Gracie Abrams' “I Love You, I'm Sorry” on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, consisting of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals/guitar), Ted Dwane (vocals/bass) and Ben Lovett (vocals/keyboards), appeared on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform their latest song “Rubber Band Man” and a cover of American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams' “I Love You, I'm Sorry”.
This marks their first musical guest on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in seven years since 2018.
“Rubber Band Man” was released on October 24th, featuring Irish singer-songwriter Hozier.
But this time, the band played the song without Hozier.
The song is their first music since the fifth studio album “RUSHMERE”, which was released back in March.
The track was written and produced by American rock band The National's Aaron Dessner.- The band lead singer Marcus Mumford told BBC Radio 1 about the song, “We were in the middle of mixing 'Rushmere', but we just didn't feel like we were done writing. And sometimes you get into a pattern where you have a record that's finished. And then you sort of take a deep breath out, and you go on tour of two years, and you don't really think about writing songs. And we wanted to do that differently this time. Partly because we just missed it so much, missed being together, missed having an excuse to go on the road. And honestly felt like there was something still happening with songwriting, even when we were done with 'Rushmere'. So while we were in New York mixing 'Rushmere' with Tom Elmhirst. We were also in Electric Lady, starting to write more songs. And Aaron Dessner was next door and came in. And we hadn't seen each other for a few years, even though he'd helped us with the demos for our third record. He came through, and we started pinging ideas around, and then one thing led to another, and 'Rubber Band Man' came out.”
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“I Love You, I'm Sorry” was released by Gracie Abrams as the third single from her sophomore album “The Secret of Us” last October. The song reached No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
The band chose the song because the same producer, Aaron Dessner, wrote and produced “Rubber Band Man” and “I Love You, I'm Sorry”.
Marcus Mumford said, “We are covering 'I love you. I'm sorry' by Gracie Abrams, because we love it, and we love her. And when it was available, we couldn't believe no one had done it yet. Really lucked out, and we're very excited. I mean it is one of our tunes by the same cat that produced 'Rubber Band Man', our song, Mr. Aaron Dessner.” - source : BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge
