Mumford & Sons to tour this year's best selling album in Birmingham
Folk rockers Mumford & Sons have announced they are to play Birmingham's LG Arena as part of a tour to showcase work from their second album Babel.
Following Babel's release on September 24 the album sold 159,000 copies in the UK and also topped charts in the US with 600,000 copies purchased.
Songs from the follow up to debut release Sigh No More will be played at a gig in Birmingham on Friday, December 7.
Band member Ben Lovett has been taken aback by recent successes.
He said: "We're confident and happy to be where we are as a band — everything that's happened with us has exceeded expectations, and it's all been a surprise, it's all much bigger than what we were prepared for.
"So when we came to recording this record we had a choice: to shy away from that, or to realise that people dig what we're doing, and make something robust, with that energy."
Tickets for Mumford & Sons are available now from Friday September 28.
