Five star music review for the Kings Of Leon gig, O2 Arena
The festival favourites draw huge crowds in Greenwich on a Monday night
16 June 2009
Rating: 5/5
THE Kings Of Leon are win-win.
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The fellas love them because they’re a brilliant rock band. The ladies love them because they’re a brilliant rock band, plus they’ve got sex appeal. There were no brownie points to be earned by other halves here - every one of the 20,000 sell-out crowd wanted to be there. After all, this was a Monday night. But, by golly, London was up for this one.
Every track – whether it be the heartfelt majesty of On Call, or No1 smash Sex On Fire – was greeted with the same visceral passion with which the Tennessee four-piece play.
Like Jimi Hendrix, The Killers, and the comic Bill Hicks before them, KoL made their name in Blighty before hitting it big in their native US, a fact not lost on lead singer Caleb Followill. "It’s good to be home," he said, all heartfelt Nashville drawl, talking to the crowd for the first time after Molly’s Chamber, the fifth track of a memorable night.
It was the late Hicks who lamented the fact that no modern bands “play from their f***ing heart”. It’s a charge the great man could never have levelled at KoL. They’re all heart – and soul.
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