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Post by schooltardy on Nov 26, 2005 8:33:15 GMT
HAA! This is a funny blurb from The Tennessean:
I always knew you're safer flying in first class
Nashville area rockers Kings of Leon play Vandy's Memorial Gym Friday night, and let's hope they're not too tired from their recent trip to South America.
The boys actually got an interesting surprise on the long flight down there.
They were in first class and there was an attractive woman in a business suit who proved to be quite appealing. She was so alluring that they invited her to play cards with them.
Things went great, and the Kings' singer guitarist Caleb Followill even started some light flirting.
When they debarked (Don't you love that word?), the woman turns to Caleb, takes his hand, pulls it toward her waist and . . . places his hand on her handgun.
"I'm an air marshal," she said with a wink. Then she turned and left.
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Post by cornflake on Nov 30, 2005 6:14:14 GMT
This is not positive, but its recent so I though I would post it anyway. www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2005/11/17/The_Spin/index.shtmlNovember 17, 2005 ------------------------- The Spin
Folded letterSlow night, so longAn overnight success story, Mt. Juliet’s Kings of Leon were signed to RCA without much of a local fan base, and after seeing their performance Friday night at Memorial Gym, which was easily less than half-full, it appears they still lack one. The brothers (and cousin) Followill opened their 45-minute set with the well-received “Molly’s Chambers” and moved swiftly through much of their small but impressive catalog. Yet the Kings’ performance lacked enthusiasm and energy—at times they looked more like a road-weary rock band than a platinum-selling sensation. After half-an-hour, lead-singer Caleb Followill looked about as beat as his skintight white jeans and booties, and, after whispering something to the other band members, he came forward and apologized for not having much else to play. Sorry Caleb, but blaming a lackluster performance on the Kings’ limited repertoire isn’t stealing any hearts. |
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Post by californiaxwaiting on Nov 30, 2005 15:10:52 GMT
This is not positive, but its recent so I though I would post it anyway. www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2005/11/17/The_Spin/index.shtmlNovember 17, 2005 ------------------------- The Spin
Folded letterSlow night, so longAn overnight success story, Mt. Juliet’s Kings of Leon were signed to RCA without much of a local fan base, and after seeing their performance Friday night at Memorial Gym, which was easily less than half-full, it appears they still lack one. The brothers (and cousin) Followill opened their 45-minute set with the well-received “Molly’s Chambers” and moved swiftly through much of their small but impressive catalog. Yet the Kings’ performance lacked enthusiasm and energy—at times they looked more like a road-weary rock band than a platinum-selling sensation. After half-an-hour, lead-singer Caleb Followill looked about as beat as his skintight white jeans and booties, and, after whispering something to the other band members, he came forward and apologized for not having much else to play. Sorry Caleb, but blaming a lackluster performance on the Kings’ limited repertoire isn’t stealing any hearts. Why does that make me feel so sad? Whoever wrote that wasn't a fan. I thought things were going pretty okay for them in America. I suggest they come over to London soon as possible. Yeah, lol. |
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Post by schooltardy on Nov 30, 2005 21:05:13 GMT
californiaxwaiting, don't feel sad. this particular publication, our weekly paper, the nashville scene, has always been really unhappy with the kings. i suspect it's all sour grapes because they got a deal and had so much success without playing around nashville for a million years first and building a local following. i thought they (the critics at the scene) had calmed down some after some other new local bands got deals and attention, but apparently old grudges die hard.
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Post by ockol on Dec 3, 2005 0:22:45 GMT
This is not positive, but its recent so I though I would post it anyway. www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2005/11/17/The_Spin/index.shtmlNovember 17, 2005 ------------------------- The Spin
Folded letterSlow night, so longAn overnight success story, Mt. Juliet’s Kings of Leon were signed to RCA without much of a local fan base, and after seeing their performance Friday night at Memorial Gym, which was easily less than half-full, it appears they still lack one. The brothers (and cousin) Followill opened their 45-minute set with the well-received “Molly’s Chambers” and moved swiftly through much of their small but impressive catalog. Yet the Kings’ performance lacked enthusiasm and energy—at times they looked more like a road-weary rock band than a platinum-selling sensation. After half-an-hour, lead-singer Caleb Followill looked about as beat as his skintight white jeans and booties, and, after whispering something to the other band members, he came forward and apologized for not having much else to play. Sorry Caleb, but blaming a lackluster performance on the Kings’ limited repertoire isn’t stealing any hearts. Why does that make me feel so sad? Whoever wrote that wasn't a fan. I thought things were going pretty okay for them in America. I suggest they come over to London soon as possible. Yeah, lol. they were REALLY GOOD  at least here in argentina.. A girl in Brasil told me that they didn't like the band or Caleb.. I was so mad at her..  , but is her opinion... in my personal opinion I think they were awesome!.. |
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Post by Replicant on Dec 21, 2005 22:55:11 GMT
Short and sweet:
Legendary Nashville music club Exit/In added Middle Tennessee rock band Kings of Leon to its wall of fame yesterday afternoon. Left to right, Matthew Followill and his three cousins (who are brothers) Nathan, Jared and Caleb Followill. The Exit/In list is made up of acts who have sold out the venue at least twice and/or bands that club operators like, and they include Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Billy Joel and Ryan Adams. Kings drummer Nathan Followill said the band appreciates the hometown love and then quipped, "Next stop — picture on the wall at The Palm. They'll probably put us in the men's room behind the stalls."
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Post by californiaxwaiting on Dec 21, 2005 23:51:47 GMT
californiaxwaiting, don't feel sad. this particular publication, our weekly paper, the nashville scene, has always been really unhappy with the kings. i suspect it's all sour grapes because they got a deal and had so much success without playing around nashville for a million years first and building a local following. i thought they (the critics at the scene) had calmed down some after some other new local bands got deals and attention, but apparently old grudges die hard. Yeah thats trueeeee. Awww, i don't feel that sad, its just that being a fan from London, they get so much hype over here. Personally i think they are amazing live, i couldn't fault them. |
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Post by no1kolfan on Dec 22, 2005 20:32:07 GMT
Why can't I find out about these things sooner!
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Post by bellestarr on Dec 22, 2005 22:00:38 GMT
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2005 12:00 AM
Michael Lovett
Preview's man in the field, meaning he files his stories from sailboat races in exotic locales.
Top three favorite albums this year
1. "With Teeth," Nine Inch Nails: If 2005 was the year of the apocalypse, then I'm glad to have had goth-king Trent Reznor as my guide.
2. "Aha Shake Heartbreak," Kings of Leon: The brothers (and cousin) Followill may have the musical chops of a rusty swing set, but their clueless inventiveness makes "Aha Shake" a personal favorite.
3. "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes: I just can't get enough of this color-coordinated duo!
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Post by Alexis on Dec 23, 2005 0:26:11 GMT
printer friendly format sponsored by: The New Media Department of The Post and Courier Charlestown,SC THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2005 12:00 AM Michael Lovett Preview's man in the field, meaning he files his stories from sailboat races in exotic locales. Top three favorite albums this year 1. "With Teeth," Nine Inch Nails: If 2005 was the year of the apocalypse, then I'm glad to have had goth-king Trent Reznor as my guide. 2. "Aha Shake Heartbreak," Kings of Leon: The brothers (and cousin) Followill may have the musical chops of a rusty swing set, but their clueless inventiveness makes "Aha Shake" a personal favorite. 3. "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes: I just can't get enough of this color-coordinated duo! Hmmm rusty swing set eh?  |
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Post by AccuratePassion on Dec 23, 2005 1:02:24 GMT
Better than Get Behind Me Satan... |
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Post by cornflake on Dec 23, 2005 6:59:10 GMT
printer friendly format sponsored by: The New Media Department of The Post and Courier Charlestown,SC THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2005 12:00 AM Michael Lovett Preview's man in the field, meaning he files his stories from sailboat races in exotic locales. Top three favorite albums this year 1. "With Teeth," Nine Inch Nails: If 2005 was the year of the apocalypse, then I'm glad to have had goth-king Trent Reznor as my guide. 2. "Aha Shake Heartbreak," Kings of Leon: The brothers (and cousin) Followill may have the musical chops of a rusty swing set, but their clueless inventiveness makes "Aha Shake" a personal favorite. 3. "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes: I just can't get enough of this color-coordinated duo! Awesome! And I own all those albums (I barley buy albums, only if I truly enjoy the songs and the artist/band). I love the NIN one. I swear, it was on constant repeat. I just couldn't get enough of "Sunspots", "All the love in the world" (which should be the next single), and the Dave Grohl drum driven "You Know What You Are". Trent Reznor is truly talented and I really am glad the father of industrial rock conquered his demons and returned to creating music. The KOL one is an obvious, I felt this rush of excitement when I first heard it before it's release on NME. It felt fresh, crisp yet organic, and every song was a gem. There was no song that would be skipped because they are all amazing in their own way. Caleb is a smart song writer/lyricist. Just look at the thread about analyzing the lyrics. And The White Stripes album just shows how much of a genius Jack White is. His guitar licks were fantastic on this album. |
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Post by californiaxwaiting on Jan 7, 2006 22:37:47 GMT
As soon as I heard 'Aha shake heartreak' I loved it, there's something so original about it.
It sounds as though no one had ever sounded like that before.
And as for the White Stripes album, that was so fucking good, Jack White is genius.
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Post by bellestarr on Jan 26, 2006 22:23:24 GMT
once again, nathan supplies the laughs  The Age Melborne, Australia January 27, 2006 Page 1 of 2 The Kings of Leon have learnt how to survive a rock'n'roll life drenched in liquor and ladies, writes Michael Dwyer. The three sons of the former Reverend Leon Followill still talk a lot about Jesus. They may be a dirty southern rock'n'roll band with little but liquor and ladies on their minds, but their large extended family is top-loaded with the old-fashioned kind of believers. "My grandfather Leon had five sons and at one point in their lives all of them were religious, not just my father," says Nathan Followill, the oldest of the Kings of Leon. "My mother has four sisters too, and they all five married preachers, so we still have our fair share of religious conversations at Christmas and Thanksgiving. They're getting a lot nicer now, when they want a new parking lot for their church or a new gymnasium," he cackles. The Lord sure does move in mysterious ways. It's a little shocking to imagine a new Pentecostal parking annexe in downtown Nashville financed by Aha Shake Heartbreak, perhaps the raunchiest record about drunken male promiscuity in the new crop of garage rock. From the suggestive floral emblem on the cover ("We told our buddy to take pictures of flowers he'd like to f---") to the testosterone-drenched imagery within, Nathan, Caleb, Jared and their cousin Matthew Followill have made a rites-of-passage album fairly itching with fast and loose love. "Actually, we would try to do a song between orgies," Nathan says, playing up to the theme. "We would never go more than three orgies before a song, 'cause otherwise we would have never got a record done. We wouldn't have been able to walk." Seriously though, the 21/2 years since the Kings' debut, Youth and Young Manhood, really has been a non-stop party. The Followill dudes have made no bones about their baptism in booze, nor the misplacement of virginity that has swept their tender ranks like a virus (Jared and Matthew are still to reach legal drinking age, 21, at home). To say the least, it's been a wild learning curve since the three brothers' misspent childhood, touring the American bible belt on their preacher father's coat-tails. That all went belly-up when their parents divorced in 1998. Dad renounced the cloth and the lads promptly succumbed to temptation. "You learn ways to cope," Nathan says of the high life that has seen the band feted by Noel Gallagher and Kate Moss in London and tour much of the world with their New York equivalent, the Strokes. |
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Post by bellestarr on Jan 26, 2006 22:25:28 GMT
Part 2 "You try to be rock star and party as long as you can, until your body shuts down for four days. We pushed our bodies to the limits so now we kinda fly just below excess. We've found a happy medium. "The first record was all about, 'Do whatever you can, as much as you can, whenever you can'. This record, we kinda learned you can have a good time without taking your pants off and peeing on a bar just so people think you're cool. "Now we'd rather sit back in a dark corner with a nice bottle of wine and let the ladies of high society wander over. We're kinda getting spoiled that way. But we're ready to get back to Australia and get us some wild sheilas." The Kings' last sex tour of Australia was on board the 2004 Big Day Out, when their star was just beginning to ascend. They broke out of England that year and they're still "bigger in Europe", Nathan estimates, though America is catching up fast. "It's gettin' tough to go to Wal-Mart now without signing an autograph for a 55-year-old woman whose grandkids love us, but we're still not getting any Hooters waitresses hittin' us up, which kinda sucks," he says. "But it'll come soon enough, we hope." Contrary to Nathan Followill's sleazy redneck banter, the mood of Aha Shake Heartbreak is surprisingly sensitive for the most part. Perhaps it's an ingrained subtext of Christian guilt, or a genuine, lasting respect for the many young ladies found and lost under such titles as Slow Night So Long, Taper Jean Girl and Pistol of Love. Ultimately, besides all the "perfect nipples" and "bang bang bang" and "something shaved and lacy", there's always something the fornicatin' Followill boys would rather be doing. "We loooove to play golf," Nathan sighs. "It's just so f---ing expensive in Australia! That's why it's good to take the record label out - or a journalist. If you want an exclusive, just take us to the country club and I'll spill my heart out to you. Bring a couple of hot ladies with you and it's all on the record, I don't care." The Kings of Leon play the Big Day Out at Princes Park, Carlton on Sunday and the Palace, St Kilda, on Wednesday. |
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Post by schooltardy on Jan 27, 2006 4:14:51 GMT
From Jan. 19th's Nashville Rage:
On their way down to the Big Day Out festival in Australia and New Zealand, Kings of Leon stopped in L.A. last weekend to celebrate the 24th birthday of singer Caleb Followill at a VIP event held by BurnLounge, a new Internet music site run by former Via Records chief and Nashvillian Stephen Murray. Caleb shared the dance floor with actor Cary Elwes and drinks with his new pal, A-list Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo. Also there specifically to hang with Caleb and the boys were The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Like, The Bravery and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, as well band manager Andy Mendelsohn and lovely Nashville PR person Emily Deaderick. There for different reasons was Annette Strean, lead singer of Nashville electronic pop trio Venus Hum.
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Post by ockol on Jan 31, 2006 16:35:31 GMT
aww I love mark ruffalo..  |
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Post by bellestarr on Feb 5, 2006 21:37:36 GMT
PART 1
The Sydney Morning Herald Feb 6,2006
Three brothers and their cousin have compensated for a sheltered upbringing in a rather extreme way, Louise Hall writes.The tale behind US band Kings of Leon has become so well-known in music circles, the band members themselves refer to it formally as "The Story".But, indeed, it's so remarkable it's worth telling again. The Followill brothers Nathan, 26, Caleb, 24, and Jared, 19, grew up accompanying their father Leon, a travelling Pentecostal preacher, as he moved from town to town, spreading the word of the Lord.
But when Leon's fondness for the bottle forced him out of his ministry, the increasingly disillusioned teenagers went to Oklahoma City and quickly discovered the seedier side of life. Seemingly overnight, the well-behaved, church-going sons of a deeply religious family decided to form a debauched drinking and shagging rock'n'roll band. In 2002 the Kings of Leon were picked up by the same rep as the Strokes and with their first cousin Matthew Followill, 21, on lead guitar, released an EP, Holy Roller Novocaine. And the public, particularly in the UK, lapped it up.
Riding high on critical acclaim, their debut album Youth & Young Manhood quickly followed to instant success in Britain, charting top 10 and almost selling double platinum. The raw mix of garage rock, boozy blues, rootsy riffs and a hint of country was a hit on stage and their shows were feted by the likes of Mick Jagger and Noel Gallagher. They went on to support the Strokes, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and supergroup U2 on their Vertigo tour across North America. It seemed no one could quite believe that a group who claim their childhood was devoid of anything except gospel music could suddenly produce such accomplished rock'n'roll.
"Sometimes we get sick of telling 'The Story' because half the time people are just asking questions because they don't believe you," says singer and guitarist Caleb, "but do you really think we would still be lying about who we are and what we were and what we do? It would be so boring to sit there and concoct this every day."
Oozing rock star charm in boots and skinny jeans, Caleb tells S he was introduced to music in church. His mum would play the piano and he started playing guitar with her. He says he and his brothers only started listening to popular music five years ago, discovering everything from Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash to Tears For Fears all at once.
So how, in the late 20th century, did four teenage boys from Tennessee manage to stay so sheltered? "In the world that we lived in, the singing every night in church, that was real," Caleb says
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Post by bellestarr on Feb 5, 2006 21:43:30 GMT
PART 2
Those people [the church congregations] were real and honest and all had day jobs and they had paint on their hands from that day and they'd be up there behind the microphone writing a song while they were singing, just talking about their day's events and Jesus and those people had the most beautiful voices in the world, even if their voices weren't that good.
"Then we'd listen to the radio and it was like a computer and it was all fake and boring."
The latest album, Aha Shake Heartbreak, reflects the group's rapid rise from rural obscurity to international rock darlings. The stripped down, punchy tracks crudely chart their drunken escapades and outrageous promiscuity during the 18 months that preceded the album. The perspectives of the group have clearly changed since their Youth & Young Manhood days, with Caleb's slurred, mumbled vocals lamenting the darker side of success in tracks like Slow Night, So Long, about bedding groupies they don't like.
While Aha Shake Heartbreak debuted at No. 3 on the UK charts and 31 here (and they were a popular Big Day Out drawcard), the Kings remain largely unknown in their native America. Their inability to crack their home market clearly confounds them, but Nathan says word is starting to spread, slowly.
"Last time we checked there was a small crack," says Nathan, the drummer and eldest Followill. "It's like two kids in a room with a toy - one kid doesn't want it until the other kid picks it up, so Americans are like, why are they so big in England and Australia?"
But there is some comfort in the US: Nathan says fellow Nashvillian Australian country music singer Keith Urban is one of their biggest fans.
In between sets at the Big Day Out around the country and their side shows in Sydney and Melbourne, the Kings have been trying out new music for their next album. They even used the Annandale Hotel as a rehearsal space and ended up playing a full set to some bemused midday drinkers.
Despite the stardom, the boys remain extremely close and spend almost all of their time with each other: Caleb and Nathan just bought a house together outside Nashville across the road from their mum; Jared and Matthew own neighbouring properties down the road. Much of their family remains tied to the church and Caleb conspicuously wears a large gold crucifix around his neck. "I would say we're God-fearing men," Nathan says.
Caleb counters: "I think the appropriate term would be sinners. If you don't believe in God you don't believe in sin."
Aha Shake Heartbreak is available now through SonyBMG.
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Post by bellestarr on Feb 5, 2006 22:04:03 GMT
there's a really nice picture too but my %^#$*%&$&($ computer won't cooperate and help me drag the boys over here. maybe one of you will have better luck? www.smh.com.au and search for KOL thanks |
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