What the Tennessee favourites lack in conventional patter, they make up for with double-distilled Americana on this tour opener in West Yorkshire.
There’s an inauspicious lethargy before Kings of Leon take to the stage at Leeds’s First Direct Arena, a bone-tired lassitude at sharp odds with the sticky blue skies and summer bloom outside the doors.
Flanked by Moulin Rouge-red curtains, and framed with two sets of rounded screens arranged like church windows, they conjure up a six-string sermon, preaching their gospel to the congregation beneath a precarious canopy of lightbulbs strung from the rafters. There is no complacency here too: Sex on Fire, that perennial student disco staple, is unceremoniously thrown out half an hour in, sparking a flurry of footsteps back from the bar post-haste.
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