TOP folk band Mumford and Sons will play a special secret gig in Brighton on Monday – but there won’t be a mobile phone in sight.

The Grammy award-winning band’s fan club gig on Monday night bans punters from taking their phones into the venue.

The multimillion-selling quartet has taken the step to prevent any online leaks of new material from their unreleased third album.

The gig was so top secret even staff at the venue only learned about who was playing on Friday.

The Mumfords will play The Dome Corn Exchange as a warm up for the band’s upcoming festival dates and their own Gentlemen of the Road gigs in the UK and US this summer.

Fan club members lucky enough to get their hands on tickets will be asked to arrive at least an early to hand their phones over and expect queues afterwards before getting their devices back.

The four-piece banned mobile phones from intimate gigs in New York and London last year but the Corn Exchange show is their biggest no-phone gig so far.

Last summer Kate Bush told her fans not to bring mobile phones to her much-anticipated Royal Albert Hall performances following a 30-year absence from the stage.

Mumford and Sons’ new album Wilder Mind will be released on May 4.

The group, who headline the Reading and Leeds festival in August alongside Metallica and The Libertines, are remembered in Sussex for their mini Stopover Festival in Lewes two years ago.

In an email to fans, the band explained: “As this show is happening pre-album release, the band have requested all mobile phone and recording devices to be prohibited inside the venue.”