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Kings Of Leon Kick Off

• 13th Oct 2009

With Oasis out of the picture, Kings Of Leon are now taking the lead as pop's biggest squabbling family members.

Speaking to The Daily Star, bassist Jared Followill reportedly said: “We started seriously writing the songs when we got back home from tour. I got a call from Caleb going: 'I'm sitting here writing the next album by myself'. And we're like: 'Oh no, you're not'. We ended up going to his house so that when the record comes out he can't go: 'Dude, I'm getting 70% of this shit'”.

He added: “Caleb was really weird when we started. Everything that I thought was quite charming about us, he wanted to lie about. For me it's hard having an opinion on this band. If I wasn't involved I can't imagine liking us a lot, just because I only control 25% of it. In every song there's something I wish I could change. Each one of us are like that, though. We're definitely missing the rawness that we had when we started”.
Saying he'd like to move back to the style of the band's earlier material, he also took a quick swipe at his brother's more recent lyrics: “I'd like to start getting back to the storytelling aspect of songwriting. Songs like 'Trani' and 'Joe's Head' were full of great stories. Although, let's keep it about things that are deep and meaningful like sexually transmitted diseases and sex”.

The band have also announced that they will release a live DVD recorded at their shows at the O2 Dome in June. The standard DVD edition will be out on 9 Nov, with the swanky Blu-ray version out on 23 Nov.