I wish he'd stop going on about that Sax, you know, my Sax is on Fire, song aside they're just about the best band around at the moment aren't they?, I was watching the highlights from the Reading Festival, and, apart admiring the new slim line version of Ricky Wilson, Kings of Leon seem like a real band.. the sort born from a garage somewhere, and not from the odd distorted minds of billion pound record company video promotional campaigns,,, I know of course they have had to compromise to have such a big hit, making a slightly glossyised video.. touching up their image a bit (lose the cardigan though please), but there isn't really anyone else out there that touches them live at the moment... they have that organic spark going on that only comes from being brought up together with their own music, their own thing going on, nothing contrived.. I liked the stripped down arrangements, getting to the core of what it is, those quirky little songs, suddenly come alive when they fire up on-stage... I like the lack of pandering to the dumbo's in the crowd who bark and wave their arms in the air to anything that's on-stage (modern phenomena !), half the time not realising that it may as well be the roadies up there,,, most audiences now have spent too much time playing Wii, thinking Rock music is by numbers... more bands like Kings of Leon, although it's unlikely when all that's being foisted off on us by the media is Florence (Siouxsie), and Trincher Strydy (what's his name ??),,, come of Kings of Leon, they have the biggest anthem of the decade - they even play it in my local swimming pool for the OAP Water Aerobics - but stop going on about that bloody Saxophone (on Fire)!.

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