WINSTON MARSHALL

Winston is a founding member of the British folk band Mumford & Sons. In the band, he plays the banjo, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, and provides backing vocals. Before Mumford & Sons, Winston performed with Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane: who are members of his current band and with Laura Marling.

He used to run a jam night at Bosun’s Locker. It was a tiny music club beneath a pasty shop on the King’s Road in Fulham, where a number of musicians who had an affinity for earthy acoustic music played with each other. This was before the establishment of Mumford & Sons.

Again before Mumford & Sons, Winston was a member of another band: Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers, a bluegrass sleaze rap band, in which he was credited as Country Winston and played the banjo and guitar.

He joined a temporary supergroup called “Salvador Dalí Parton” with fellow musicians Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show, Mike Harris of Apache Relay, Jake Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood, and Justin Hayward-Young of the Vaccines. The band which was formed as a joke, wrote six songs in 20 minutes on their first day together, held its one and only full-band rehearsal the next day, and performed six shows around Nashville, Tennessee, the following night before breaking up.

He became interested in techno music and electronic dance music in 2015, after spending several nights attending James Ford residency in a night club. He joined the Austrian DJ duo HVOB for a collaboration in 2016 and they recorded an album name Silk. The album which was released on March 24th had singles like “The Blame Game”, that was released in February 2017. They toured across Europe and Asia, playing in festivals and night clubs while Winston was also performing in concerts with Mumford & Sons.