Kings Of Leon gets political

Speaking to Xfm at Glastonbury Festival, headliners Kings of Leon spilled the beans on their forthcoming album 'Only By The Night'. This time its getting political.

Soon after the brothers (and cousin) Followill got the Glastonbury call asking them to headline Friday night the Kings of Leon did two things. Firstly, they scrapped their plans to have a few (long overdue) months off, and secondly they decided to write a new albums in under three months so that they could have some new material for their mammoth slot.

Entitled 'Only By The Night', frontman Caleb Followill and elder brother (and sticksman) Nathan told Xfm what they could expect from the band's fourth album which early reports suggest gets political:

"The older you get the more you realise that you have to take a stand and have to believe in something and I think we're on the right path. I just think we're a little more political at this point.

"For a while it was the cool thing for American bands to do - diss the governnement and the regime - and a lot of people revived their careers that way.

"We let that pass over and now we can actually write or sing about something if we have a belief about it and we're doing it on our terms and not because its the cool thing to do. Truth is Bush is still in their, the war is still going on."

...but we'll never get too far into that stuff becuase we don't consider ourselves celebrities so who cares what we think?"