- Kings of Leon
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will sprawl across 700-acres of nearly shade-less farmland in Manchester, Tennessee this week, bringing tens of thousands of music fans to Middle Tennessee June 10th through 13th. This year, I’ll be representing the Flyer amid the sea of of acid-ingesting, sunburned, barefoot hippies, and will be filing reports throughout the fest. Stay tuned.
Some of this year’s performer’s recently held court at a press conference promoting the event, and we had a chance to listen in.
Friday headliner Kings of Leon has been working on a yet-to-be-released “fun record,” which drummer Nathan Followill says “has songs that are beachy; songs that are a little more like our Youth & Young Manhood days. It’ll be tough not to play the whole thing at Bonnaroo.”
Followill says the members each have their “go-to songs — the songs that we get to show off on,” but they will perform a nice mixture of oldies, goodies, and a few more new ones than fans may expect. “We might have a couple of aces up our sleeves, maybe a couple of cool covers, so it’ll be interesting,” he says. “It’s in our backyard, in Tennessee, so it’ll be fun.”
