Kings of Leon are on fire at the BIC
YOU might think forking out £120 to see the Kings of Leon at the BIC is paying over the odds – and you’d probably be right.
However, as out-of-pocket those who purchased tickets off eBay at such inflated prices might have felt, the performance the KOL treated the crowd to on Sunday night would have offered much in the way of consolation.
Die hard fans can criticise the more mainstream, over-produced sound of their fourth album all they like but the show got off to a flyer.
Hot on the heels of the dirty bass line and gritty riffery of Crawl came some songs for those who have been with the KOL from the start – King of the Rodeo, Joe’s Head and Molly’s Chambers.
These tracks from their first two albums sounded as fresh as they did when we first heard them and, as always, provoked the crowd into frenzied moshing.
If there was a good time to go to the bar it would have been just before the encore, when they slowed the tempo down again with Cold Desert and Trani.
Emerging again for the encore the KOL raised the bar once more with Knocked Up, a pulsating version of Charmer, Slow Night Slow Long and Black Thumbnail, which goaded the crowd into impersonating a pack of feral animals and closed what was a barnstorming gig.
Why the KOL don’t receive the same recognition in their home country as they do here is baffling – more fool the Yanks.
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