Caleb Followill, Kings Of Leon (Photo: Live4ever Media)
Kings Of Leon want new British bands to ‘get rock and roll going again’, and seem to believe they have done all they can for the genre.
“I’d tell any budding British rock bands to get off their asses and become popular so we can get rock and roll going again,” bass player Jared has told the Daily Star. “It’s hard for a band like us to bring rock and roll back because everybody already knows us. It’ll take a younger band to come out and change things.”
Later, Caleb Followill was full of praise for the UK’s music fans who stood up and paid attention to his band during the early days when they released the brilliant albums ‘Youth & Young Manhood‘ and ‘Aha Shake Heartbreak‘.
“You guys in the UK have always been there since day one,” the frontman remembered. “We were scratching our heads when we first started the band as we couldn’t understand what it was about us that you loved so much.”
“Throughout the years the more time we’ve spent in the UK we’ve seen the tastes in music and the tastes in life. You love a good story – something to attach yourselves to aside from the music. I think we give that, so it feels like our second home.”
