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Post by newtonab on May 1, 2007 20:57:57 GMT
When you guys first started listening to them (i mean the true FIRST listeners) was it because of the story or te band?
Nathan mentioned it in an interview...their story had a lot to do with their overnight success. Is it true? or was it the music?
What do the real English Folk or Lads or Chaps or Lasses say?
(no offense on the names.......we dont have nicknames like that in America. We're just fat.)
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Post by antroolez on May 1, 2007 21:19:52 GMT
erm to be honest my friends dads friend worked on a radio station and got the EP early...so i didn't really know 'the story' i just remembered thinkin they were good and remembering their name
i dunno i think their story has a large appeal in england as theres nuthin really like it over here
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Post by jaredismygod on May 1, 2007 21:21:07 GMT
i heard them on kerrang radio early on, but didnt know anything about them, just thought they were good
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Post by newtonab on May 1, 2007 21:23:21 GMT
Right on. Id rather hear than that believe most of their popularity is due to the "good vs. evil" image.
I wish I lived in Europe. How are things over there. Style, music, everything?
I hear the food is a little dry....Got Pepper?
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Post by princeofleon on May 1, 2007 22:23:36 GMT
I just seen a clip of them playing RML and tbh I laughed at first and thought "have this band came from a fuckin time portal?" as the clothes they had on looked as though they were straight from 1970. RML stuck in my head though and now I am addicted and borderlining saddo. EDIT: I am Scottish, we like the Kings aswell  |
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Post by buck on May 2, 2007 0:34:09 GMT
I just seen a clip of them playing RML and tbh I laughed at first and thought "have this band came from a fuckin time portal?" as the clothes they had on looked as though they were straight from 1970. RML stuck in my head though and now I am addicted and borderlining saddo. EDIT: I am Scottish, we like the Kings aswell A Scotsman turned me onto the Kings.  He said they were like Zeppelin in that they sounded really great but dressed very bad.  Hehehe. Sorry.... That was off-topic! *backing out of thread* |
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Post by benief on May 2, 2007 6:54:04 GMT
big day out january 2004..
i was waiting for other bands later in the day and i heard they were good but hadnt gotten around to listening to them yet, so i went...and liked wot i heard..
also thought they looked funny.
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Post by HOWL on May 2, 2007 9:55:01 GMT
A friend once told me to check em out (being country sort o'folk).... but until then i hadn't really listened to their music. i was plesantly surprised at such an descovered sound, the folk & Rock and Blues & indie sort of mix, right up my street.
I never heard no hype in my end of the land. just the sound...
I am not a farmer.
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Post by sar on May 2, 2007 11:13:50 GMT
i first saw them on jools holland 03, it was the music more than anything else but i think the story did get them noticed byt the press ie nme a lot quicker than they would have been otherwise.
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Post by suneyedgirl on May 3, 2007 15:30:22 GMT
Believe it or not a sub History teacher told me about them and I went home and listened to them.. I was amazed as the rest of his music taste was pretty pants.
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Post by laurenzoobo on May 3, 2007 21:33:12 GMT
I actually got into them through this guy at college so that must've been '03/'04? He introduced me to loads of great bands so i believed him when he said they were good. I made him copy Y&YM for me, and i guess karma got me back for not buying it because only half the tracks worked. So I saved my pennies and bought it eventually. I've been hooked ever since. I'll admit I found the story of their childhood really intriguing but I loved the music well before I heard about it. =]
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Post by laurenzoobo on May 3, 2007 21:33:47 GMT
What do the real English Folk or Lads or Chaps or Lasses say? (no offense on the names.......we dont have nicknames like that in America. We're just fat.) HAHAHA |
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Post by mynameisdominic on May 4, 2007 8:38:49 GMT
Believe it or not a sub History teacher told me about them and I went home and listened to them.. I was amazed as the rest of his music taste was pretty pants. Young history teachers see mto have really good music taste (in australia atleast). My first histroy teacher in year 8, was form england and she liked kings of leon, and this other one loves arcade fire and interpol andi aalwyas chat to him aobut them and i got him into kol  |
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Post by lily on May 4, 2007 12:03:06 GMT
i am scottish and i first heard them when i was like 12 or something and it was molly's chambers..my dad had it on his computer and i danced..love it didnt know anythin about them..til like months later or even a year |
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Post by izzy on May 5, 2007 14:48:01 GMT
Scottish too!! It was music for me, Molly's got me hooked. Didn't know much about them until ASH and got a little obsessed!! I don't think that the back story has that much to do with their success - just because it is the first paragraph in every review ever written about them ever!!!! Yes NME, i'm talking about you!!  We're not that easily swayed.... are we?  |
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Post by couldabeenawonder on May 5, 2007 14:54:10 GMT
No I love KoL because of their music, not the other way round.
That said, their quirkiness is definately a plus and helps them stand out. Red Morning Light was the first song of theirs I heard and I've been obseesed ever since
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