Fact #109425
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Kings Of Leon play at The Barfly, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Dave Corbet, promoter, DF Concerts : The first show I did with them was April 30, 2003, at The Barfly, Glasgow, playing to just fifty people upstairs. In those days they were thinner, longer hair, very tight jeans and the smallest arses you've ever seen.
I was the first person to look after them on behalf of DF. Their agent, Pete Nash, flagged them up to me and said I should give them a listen. I think he sent me a demo CD and, at that particular moment in time, they sounded quite different to anything else that was around. They managed to match that Southern Rock vibe with being very cool and young, and when I saw them at The Barfly I knew they had something special.
On some of the early shows we did with them, they had their mum and their stepdad with them, and she was getting involved in the running of the band, which was very difficult for her because when she was growing up, their kinda music was the music of the devil. I think there was all kinds of conflicts within the band that stemmed from their upbringing.
I don't think it was old Southern Rock fans that came out to see them. It was younger people for whom this was completely new music. They'd never heard anything like it before. Their older brothers were probably into Oasis, and this was nothing like that, so they could see it as their own.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, Audience magazine, May 2014)
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I was the first person to look after them on behalf of DF. Their agent, Pete Nash, flagged them up to me and said I should give them a listen. I think he sent me a demo CD and, at that particular moment in time, they sounded quite different to anything else that was around. They managed to match that Southern Rock vibe with being very cool and young, and when I saw them at The Barfly I knew they had something special.
On some of the early shows we did with them, they had their mum and their stepdad with them, and she was getting involved in the running of the band, which was very difficult for her because when she was growing up, their kinda music was the music of the devil. I think there was all kinds of conflicts within the band that stemmed from their upbringing.
I don't think it was old Southern Rock fans that came out to see them. It was younger people for whom this was completely new music. They'd never heard anything like it before. Their older brothers were probably into Oasis, and this was nothing like that, so they could see it as their own.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, Audience magazine, May 2014)