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Gravitational Pull

(Based on Sam Willetts' ‘Coupe De Foudre’, taken from New Light for the Old Dark ) A drunk bird falls at a rate that’s reckoned  as thirty-two feet per second, per second.  In Wetherspoons, her distance like a  collision beckoned: thirty-two feet per second  per second.

Mumford & Sons Influenced by Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall

Marcus Mumford, third from left, makes up the folk four-piece.  Marcus Mumford of indie folk outfit Mumford & Sons hit the headlines earlier this week when he revealed the source of a line featured in a song from the band's latest album.  In an interview with BBC 4's Front Row, he admitted to 'lifting' a line from Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall.  The line features in the band's second album and follow up to their wildly successful 2009 debut, Sigh No More - itself a reference to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.  The title track's opening line begins "serve God, love me and mend", which was a line spoken by Benedick in the Bard's comedy of manners.   Mantel's Wolf Hall won the Booker Prize in 2009 Mumford played down suggestions that their literary influences exceed those of their musical contemporaries, but says references to books appear regularly in their songs, with influences ranging fr