That album and the likes of songs such as Use Somebody, Revelry, Closer, Notionand Sex on Firebrought them ever closer to arena dwellers. Two years ago, with the release of Only by the Night,the band was at the tipping point of their career. And they have more of the same coming out next week in the shape of Come Around Sundown. While no one could rightly place them alongside progressive experimentalists such as Radiohead, their undemanding, grit-free rock (equal measures Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, spit’n’polish and skinny jeans) is undoubtedly a recipe for power-to-the-people foot-tapping. What has also subtly changed is the band’s music. Cue the makings of an empathetic group of musicians. Whatever the reception, whatever the duration of their visit, following the hellfire and brimstone would come the dancing and singing. Sometimes the Followills would stay in a town for a few months, depending on how Leon’s preaching was going down other times they’d travel on after a few days.
Because they travelled from town to town, the family didn’t own a house, but lived instead in a small camper van. Not bad for a band that was formed in the aftermath of their parents’ divorce, the name chosen as a tribute to their father, Leon. Welcome to the devilishly warm world of Kings of Leon, the American band that has journeyed from being raised on a diet of old-time standards and gospel music to globe-straddling success.
“Actually,” imparts Jared, “make that burning.” KINGS OF LEON bass player Jared Followill is speaking from Texas, and it goes without saying (yet say it we will, if only for the benefit of female and gay male readers) that he is hot.
Tells TONY CLAYTON-LEAwhat it was like to be the son of a preacher man and how, with their fifth album imminent, Jared Followill of Kings of Leon is hot – not only is his sex undeniably on fire, but he’s sweating in the Texas sun.
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