this mornings' top tune Little Lion Man

and this morning's commotion : did the Totnes Town Council refuse to entertain Mumford and Sons recent request that they include a Totnes date in their Gentlemen of the Road tour?

From Mumford and Sons website:

We are very pleased to announce details of a series of ‘Gentlemen of the Road Stopover…’ shows this Summer. To explain more, here's word from the band themselves:

“The Gentlemen of the Road Stopover is based loosely upon our favourite festivals like Colorado’s Telluride Bluegrass and Scotland's Loopallu Festivals.

We want to stop off in towns not usually heavily toured by bands, and celebrate the people, food and music that inhabit them. We’re keen to promote the town’s local businesses, and we’ll be using the local bars and venues for aftershow parties, whilst working closely with the local people to get everyone involved in making these shows spectacular.

There will be a host of our friends playing too, and the vibe falls somewhere between ‘travelling Victorian circus’ and ‘Victorian travelling circus’. It should be a whole lot of fun.”

The one-day outdoor events will tour globally and will be headlined and curated by Mumford & Sons, with heavy involvement from local communities, from the produce sold on the sites, to engaging visitors with the towns as a whole.

In addition to the 2 confirmed Stopover shows, the band will also play a series of evening gigs preceding and in between, with the support acts selected from the summer show line-ups. Here are the dates and venues.

and comment  from the faceboook group : 

The council denied request to perform in Totnes Park at the end of May, without seeking the opinions of the citizens of Totnes. With reasons such as: "where would all these people park?" and "How will we get toilets to the park?" and " what if its noisy?". Have they thought about this at all?

a tragic situation, the town councillors I asked had not heard of the tour manager's interest, so maybe it was just a informal enquiry, but, what a shame- would have been amazing for Totnes....  Its already June, so old news, but still new news to me...