That's a lot of time that would have been away from our families that I think we're all happy that we got to have." "So we sat with it for a year, which is actually kind of nice… to be able to make an album and then not have to go straight into the grind of putting out a record and doing all the promo and then a big tour. While life in some ways gets easier the bigger your band becomes - the "hotel rooms become nicer," for one - Followill says that "mentally, I feel like it does get a little harder at times".īut they have worked through and here they are now with their eighth album, a record finished just before the coronaviruscrisis started to escalate. Pic: APĪfter the gig, Jared Followill tweeted to apologise, saying there were "internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed". Image: Pictured at the Grammys in 2010, when they won record of the year for Use Somebody. In a well-trodden rock star path, the pressures of fame took their toll, with Followill infamously leaving a stage in Dallas, Texas, in 2011, reportedly telling fans he was going off to vomit and grab another beer but promising to return. Seems like it was a couple of months."ĭespite finding a following early on in the UK, it took Kings Of Leon's fourth album, 2008's Only By The Night, with its monster hits Sex On Fire and Use Somebody, for the band to find massive success on home turf. I'm not quite an old man yet, but I look back at something like, 'wow, that was five years ago'. "They say the older you get the faster it goes and I think that's the case.
Followill, now 39, says he can "still smell the first bar we played in, still remember exactly the nerves we had" in the beginning. It has been more than 20 years since Kings Of Leon - brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared, and cousin Matthew - was formed, and 18 since their debut, Youth & Young Manhood, brought their southern rock blues to the UK charts.
It's all going back to her anyway, she might as well." "I mean, when she's on a magazine, I buy it. The sixteen-track CD is actually the only way to hear this concert recording in lossless fidelity and replicates the same track listing from the video feature."Well, heck yeah, I hope so," he laughs. Mystery Achievement, Fools Must Die by Iggy PopĪnd Middle Of The Road encore performance featuring The Pretenders with Iggy Pop, Incubus, Kings Of Leon and Shirley Manson. Talk of the Town Back on the Chain Gang Drive by Incubus
Precious Candy by Iggy Pop and Chrissy Hynde I'm Only Happy When It Rains by Shirley Manson Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling band The Pretenders featuring the Legendary Chrissy Hynde performs with special guests including Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Kings of Leon and Incubus, recorded live at the Decades Rock Arena in Atlantic City, NJ.
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