Columbia Records UK is excited to announce that Kings of Leon released the highly anticipated fifth album, Come Around Sundown, on October 18, 2010. It was recorded in New York at Avatar Studios and produced once again by Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King. Come Around Sundown is the follow-up to the hugely successful Only By The Night, which sold over six million copies worldwide and garnered four Grammy Awards and two Brits. It’s yet another bold and expansive statement by the Nashville, Tennessee-based quartet who, in the last two years, have become one of the biggest bands in the world; also one of the most creatively restless. It became their third consecutive album to debut at #1 when it topped the UK album charts last week on release, claiming both the biggest week one sales of the year & the biggest ever first week digital sales along the way.

Kings of Leon Announce Huge 2011 Outdoor Shows

The band have announced details of a series of huge headline outdoor shows for 2011 that will see one of the country’s most adored bands perform in five UK cities this summer, including a return to London’s Hyde Park – the scene of last year’s triumphant headline performance to 65,000 fans. Tickets for the shows in Coventry, Sunderland, Manchester, London & Edinburgh go on sale on Wednesday 3rd of November at 9am.

Kings of Leon: Summer 2011

May 30th Coventry Ricoh Arena
June 17th Sunderland Stadium of Light
June 19th Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Ground
June 22nd London Hyde Park
June 26th Edinburgh Murrayfield Stadium

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But before that, December 2010 will give those fans lucky enough to get a ticket a chance to see the Kings of Leon tear the roof off these venues.

Manchester, Eve News Arena – 13 December
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Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena – 14 December
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Birmingham, NIA - 16 & 17 December
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Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena - 19 December
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London, The O2 Arena - 21 December  
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The New Album: Track By Track…

Come Around Sundown

Caleb: I think “Come Around Sundown” can mean so many different things. Like, “come around, sundown;” like you’re wanting the sundown to get here. But, it’s actually saying, “I think I’m gonna go have a cup of coffee, come around sundown.”

Jared: Some people interpret it as “come around sundown;” like “come over my house at sundown.” I don’t see it as that. I see it as like “come around sundown, we ‘bout to get down.” Ha-ha!

Matthew: And you always think about, in your free time, record titles and stuff like that — fun stuff. I was listening to some song and the person said, “come around sundown.” I said “maybe,” so I just told the guys and they’re like, “yeah, that’s awesome.” I just expected it to be thrown in the hat with a bunch of other names, but it was kind of immediate. Pretty much from day one, that was the title of the record.

The End

Jared: When we play “The End” live, I don’t know what I’m gonna do! I’m gonna look like Quasimodo; I’ll be hunched over, playing as hard as I can. It’s the hardest bass line I have ever written! I do it with my fingers, it’s so fast. You can’t really – it’s kind of a muffled sound on the record. But if you can hear what I’m doing: I tried to do a Tom ___ kind of thing. But it’s way too hard for me. I’m gonna literally have to play it with my back facing out – ‘cause I’m going to be making a face that no human should see outside the realms of hell. Ha-ha!

Caleb: Well, starting the record off with “The End”… I mean it’s definitely one of those songs that comes in one piece at a time. That’s always a good way – it layers itself – to start a record.

Matthew: I think we needed a strong song to start the record.

Nathan: It’s got a bit of irony to it being “The End” and the beginning.

Caleb: The song has a little bit of what we were doing on the last record. For someone that was a fan of the last record, when they put this record on, it’s not going to scare them away.