One of my pet hates when seeing a band in the live arena is their lack of stage presence, and tonight, Kings of Leon again fail to deliver. It's just lucky that Kings came along at the right time when other similar trendy bands like The Strokes and Jet were doing their best to rehash the seventies rock sound. These days record companies seem to hand out recording deals left, right and centre to shitty groups while the better bands who deserve them suffer. This was my second time seeing Kings of Leon, and I can honestly say, they haven't improved. Sounding like a band who would've fit well into the film Almost Famous, and with two members (brothers Caleb and Nathan Followill) looking every bit like they'd fallen out of the arse of the seventies, the remaining two members (other brother Jared Followill and cousin Matthew Followill) with their Emo hairdo's appeared as though they'd been left behind from the Taste of Chaos Tour which played the same venue only weeks earlier.
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For some, the added bonus of Nashville favourites Kings of Leon tagged along for the ride. This tour marked their fourth visit to Australia, and my fourth time seeing them in concert. Grunge passed away in the mid nineties opening the doors to bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Coal Chamber, which would be known as Nu-Metal, and apart from the few remaining grunge groups like Soundgarden who called it quits in 1997, a bigger, and much more popular band stayed on to become one of the most well respected bunch of muso's the world has seen in decades. Over the years, different fazes of musical trends come and go, and out of each dying genre there is always one or two bands who survive. Words by Jamie Cook and images by Simon Milburn
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Pearl Jam/Kings Of Leon - Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia, November 10 2006 For the band's Brisbane stop over, Jamie Cook and Simon Milburn joined a capacity crowd to returned to Australia to sold out shows around the country.
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With a bucketload of albums under their musical belt and on the back of their latest self titled album, which is also their most rockin' and rollin' release in a while, Eddie Vedder and Co. Only the strong survive, and Pearl Jam are testament to that as quite possibly being the only band that survived through the demise of the grunge movement that exploded out of Seattle (Washington, U.S.A.) in the very early 1990s.