Marshall, 33, announced last week that he was quitting Mumford & Sons
He had been the guitarist with the band, formed in 2007, for 14 years
In March he tweeted that he had appreciated Andy Ngo s book on Antifa
Marshall told Bari Weiss that he felt liberated on leaving the band
He said he was hounded for his views and accused of being a fascist and a Nazi
Andy Ngo s controversial book,
Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan To Destroy Democracy in a since-deleted tweet. The banjoist explained his decision in a lengthy essay published to
Medium, and on Tuesday (June 29) detailed the impact it had on his bandmates during an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today show (via
During the conversation, Marshall described the band getting attacked by internet mobs because of his words something he felt awful about.
“What was sort of unpleasant about it is that they went for my bandmates, they went for my friends, and that’s not fair on them because it’s got nothing to do with them,” he explained. “But in the public eye we were a unit and that’s, I suppose, what these internet mobs do. They go for all those people around you and that’s, I think, what was so troubling for me about the experience, was to see my friends getting dragged under the bus with me, which is not fair on them.”
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The banjoist received backlash for praising right-wing journalist Andy Ngo's controversial book, 'Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan To Destroy Democracy.'