Mark E. Smith 'bottles Mumford & Sons'

Mark E. Smith has insulted Mumford & Sons and claimed to have thrown a bottle at them while they were rehearsing.

According toThe Quietus, The Fall's frontman told Australian magazine The Brag that the 'Winter Winds' group had disturbed him when they were at a festival in Dublin.

Smith said: "There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them c**ts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them.

"The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."

Smith also reportedly claimed that he had "left Domino records last week".