How Popular is KOL outside the U.S

[kol1991]

hey im new here but kings rule...their me heros.. hey all ..but i live in perth Australia and theyre pretty big few people at skool herelove em im educatiing evry1 i crank em in class...how can u no love em? saw them with pearl jam and they KILLED IT!!!!! but yeah the people that like em..loove em

[fink]

In New Zealand they are getting much more exposure which is great news. Heres a few examples and a link to a rather funny video review of BOTT.

They have played 2 Big Day Out concerts, I missed the first one but luckily saw them last year. they played an amazing set but as they werent the big draw cards they only got 45 mins, this was even shorter as I they left stage early due to people throwing water bottles on stage. (rumour) The crowd for them was much larger then I expected.

Currently "On Call" is number one on the student radio station BFM - this is an alternative station in Auckland


Surpisingly I saw that "On Call" was also number 3 on a NZ video channel "pop" chart competing with an abundance of hip hop and rap. So there is hope!

Here is a link to a review of the album. The show is a varierty show on in the mornings and its target audience would be stay at home mums or retired people due to its time slot of 10am? You can tell the reviewer is a gushing fan but finds it hard to sell it to the obviously consertive host of the show. Love it

tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1046949


p.s anyone know if they are touring down here anytime soon??

[benief]

yer, aus here...

sorta big..

cept the house/dance music scene here is rather overpowering at the moment.

kings of leon....i've only ever heard on triple JJJ a few times EVER!
altho ther is a poster for 'because of the times' on a wall at the end of my street...

i want to get it off the wall, but...it's impossible.

[rockstarmouse]

there's a huge poster on the wall of my uni that I meant to go get this wekend sometime, but forgot.. hope its still there!
there were heaps of posters in sounds stores here (wellington, new zealand) too

[benief]

yer near my house thers this billboard thing with shit loads posters on it and ther one of them... and..yeah...its impossible to get off..

neone have experience with this'? lol

[ellie]

i tried to get a poster from a tube station wall in london. i got the top half clean off but the rest was ruined. they use some pretty good glue

[PrickleyPorcupine]

kol1991 said:

saw them with pearl jam

You're getting karma for that (even if it did take me a good ten minutes to read your post).

[benief]

as did i! bah!

of course my (insert expletive) mate... had the tickets and was a bit late so...i missed the first couple of songs... rather annoying.

[toni83]

Well I just read in today's paper that Because of the Times debuted at #4 on the australian charts. Crazy!

[izzy]

the UK have to be there biggest fans - they are number 1 in the album charts as i speak (the single didn't make it, probably due to all the crappy charity stuff in the charts right now) But def massive here - gigs as mentioned sell out fast! Got tix for Glasgow in couple of weeks tho - can't wait!

[rockstarmouse]

hey, the album went number one in NZ too!

[missmolly]

well I'm not from Europe but in Mexico they have really crazy fans that adore them but they are staring to get know with this new album something stupid because they dont know what there were miss too..

[m1a1]

i'm from turkmenistan and here nobody doesn't know KOL except me

[lucci]

They are really, really popular in the UK. Hopefully they will be at Glastonbury this year!!!! Fingers cross

[monikaelizabethpar]

why they dont come to mexico!!?=?? :-[WHYYYYYYYYYY??
SORRY1

[barelylegal89]

im from korea (although i currently live in the u.s.) and they're not very well known. More people started paying attention to them when noel gallagher mentioned them during an interview though. he's pretty much like god there;

[PrickleyPorcupine]

Really? That's interesting....... Why do you think that is?

*Edit* Sorry, my question is in reference to the noel gallagher - god thing.

[lilindieprincess1]

rockstarmouse said:

hey, the album went number one in NZ too!

i know this has nothing 2 do with how big kol are but do u like the horrors??

[barelylegal89]

teamcooperwannabe said:

Really? That's interesting....... Why do you think that is?

*Edit* Sorry, my question is in reference to the noel gallagher - god thing.

hmm..why?? idk just lots of oasis fans. oasis is one of the most popular foreign bands in korea. they're very well known at least among the ppl who actually do listen to rock. and they would be nothing without noel.

[irisska]

hi,im from russia.i dont know anybody,who knew KOL until then i said.its really awful