Glastonbury is the highlight of many musicians’ festival calendars but Marcus Mumford risked getting kicked out trying to take a ‘memento’.
Mumford & Sons headlined the iconic music festival in 2013, closing the entire weekend, but have not been back since.
‘I got kicked out of our dressing room,’ the Little Lion Man hitmaker, 38, revealed on the Table Manners podcast.
‘I wasn’t allowed back in because I tried to steal furniture. I wanted a memento, so I tried to load the sofa into the back of my van.’
An entire sofa might have been a bit too much for organisers as Marcus replied ‘no’ when asked if they had played since.
The incident hasn’t dampened the singer’s enthusiasm for Glastonbury, which is taking a year off in 2026 to allow the ground to recover.
‘It’s just the best festival on Earth,’ he added. ‘Every other festival tries to be Glastonbury. It’s the OG.’
He previously hinted at the incident in 2016, telling Radio X when Mumford and Sons came off stage he ‘tried to nick a sofa’.
‘Got chucked out. They didn’t let me back in,’ Marcus said. ‘They’d just had enough of us by the end. And they said, “Get out and don’t come back”.’
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Their headline slot came after a legendary first ever Pyramid Stage performance from The Rolling Stones as well as opening night act Arctic Monkeys.
Mumford & Sons brought on indie band Vampire Weekend as a guest, singing a cover of The Beatles’ With A Little Help From My Friends.
Marcus shared: ‘I’d had a panic attack the last time we played Glastonbury … so I was nervous about it anyway, because this was bigger, and so I was just relieved more than anything else.
‘And then we did a big thing at the end with Vampire Weekend and a bunch of people and it went well.
‘And then, we came off … and I wanted a sofa! I really wanted a sofa.’
Mumford & Sons have played Glastonbury five times, with their first performance in 2008 to just 200 people.
Their headline show six years later saw over 60,000 people flock to the Pyramid Stage, back when the festival capped at 135,000 tickets plus 45,000 staff.
In 2025, this number reached over 210,000 with organiser Emily Eavis stating they had sold ‘a few thousand less’ to tackle overcrowding.
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