Mumford & Sons Not Breaking Up

Mumford & Sons are on hiatus but are not breaking up despite what banjo player Winston Marshall said Wednesday night.

At an after-party for the documentary Mistaken for Strangers last night, when he was asked about Mumford, Marshall told Vulture, "It was a good time but it's over."

After Vulture ran with the story, Billboard cleared up the mistake with the following statement: "Multiple reps for the band confirm to Billboard that Marshall's words...were meant in jest."

After spouting the fake breakup news to Vulture, Marshall ranted, "F*** the banjo. I f***ing hate the banjo," and then said he had abandoned music for the catering business.

Last September, Mumford keyboardist Ben Lovett told Rolling Stone, "There won’t be any Mumford & Sons activities for the foreseeable future. We’re going to take a considerable amount of time off and just go back to hanging out and having no commitments or pressure or anything like that.”