'It is kind of eerie sometimes when that happens and it's happened before, you know, that I've written something that happens or it seems like I'm writing about something that ends up happening later, and that scared me for a while,' says Followill. The title comes from the first track When You See Yourself, Are You Far Away?, which almost seems prophetic considering the last 12 months, a year in which many of life's distractions have been paused and we have all had time to stop and reflect. That's a lot of time that would have been away from our families that I think we're all happy that we got to have.' 'So we sat with it for a year, which is actually kind of nice… to be able to make an album and then not have to go straight into the grind of putting out a record and doing all the promo and then a big tour. While life in some ways gets easier the bigger your band becomes - the 'hotel rooms become nicer,' for one - Followill says that 'mentally, I feel like it does get a little harder at times'.īut they have worked through and here they are now with their eighth album, a record finished just before the coronaviruscrisis started to escalate. Pic: APĪfter the gig, Jared Followill tweeted to apologise, saying there were 'internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed'.

Image: Pictured at the Grammys in 2010, when they won record of the year for Use Somebody. In a well-trodden rock star path, the pressures of fame took their toll, with Followill infamously leaving a stage in Dallas, Texas, in 2011, reportedly telling fans he was going off to vomit and grab another beer but promising to return. Seems like it was a couple of months.'ĭespite finding a following early on in the UK, it took Kings Of Leon's fourth album, 2008's Only By The Night, with its monster hits Sex On Fire and Use Somebody, for the band to find massive success on home turf. I'm not quite an old man yet, but I look back at something like, 'wow, that was five years ago'. 'They say the older you get the faster it goes and I think that's the case. Followill, now 39, says he can 'still smell the first bar we played in, still remember exactly the nerves we had' in the beginning. It has been more than 20 years since Kings Of Leon - brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared, and cousin Matthew - was formed, and 18 since their debut, Youth & Young Manhood, brought their southern rock blues to the UK charts. It's all going back to her anyway, she might as well.' 'I mean, when she's on a magazine, I buy it.

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