![]() ![]() Also, trying to sound like U2 is all very well (although Kings of Leon are nowhere near as good), but the Irish supergroup’s success as a live band stems in part from their use of the stage, their movement, the confident ease with which they lope and strut and pace. Some of it was fine, and all of it was well executed (although I can’t fathom why they feel they need a fifth musician on stage to play guitar, keyboards and percussion they used to get along fine on their own), but it was hardly enthralling. Then they went on tour with U2 and they seemed to decide that big, slow and epic was the way to go suddenly Kings of Leon were just another band, a group who had seemed to reach premature middle age almost overnight.Īnd it was this big slow swirling epic material that dominated their two-hour set. ![]() They had their own sound - tough, yelpy and urgent. Once they were young and hungry and lean and downright weird – three brothers and a cousin from Nashville, Tennessee who played fast, sharp, gutsy guitar rock. First, there’s the mysterious process by which Kings of Leon have become a globe-conquering, arena-packing, Hyde Park-filling band, which they seem to have achieved by becoming duller, slower and sludgier. ![]()
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