"The conversations I’ve had there with the old Soho crew – drag queens and bank robbers – oh man, so fun": Marcus Mumford on his favourite London haunts and travelling with Carey Mulligan

US-born frontman Marcus Mumford was raised in southwest London and now lives in the West Country with his wife, the actor Carey Mulligan, and their three children. Mumford & Sons were playing Innings Festival there on the day our latest album, Prizefighter, came out, and then we went to New York for release week.” For the sea, it’s either California, where I was born, or the West Country in the UK, where I live now. I grew up in London, and we spent most of our holidays in the West Country or Scotland, where my aunt lived. Name a place that lived up to the hype“My wife [actor Carey Mulligan] and I went to Le Coucou in Méribel.