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<div style="text-align: center;">Live @ Atlantis is proud to announce American rock band Kings Of Leon will be performing 
 
�.�live in concert on the beach at Atlantis The Palm, as part of their 2014 �Mechanical Bull Tour 
 
�Mechanical Bull� is the band�s sixth studio album coming after a brief hiatus, and features the� 
 
�.singles �Supersoaker� and �Wait For Me�, currently enjoying generous airplay on Dubai radio 
 
�It was Kings Of Leon�s fourth album �Only By The Night� in 2008 that brought them 
 
�superstardom with platinum sales, the number one single �Sex On Fire� and follow up single 
 
�Use Somebody�. They headlined Glastonbury the same year and won Grammy Awards for� 
 
.Record of the Year, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance 
 
�Tickets for this unmissable concert go on sale at 9am on Monday March 24 
 
from www.ticketmaster.ae and www.atlantisthepalm.com 
 
�AED 380 REGULAR ADVANCE / AED 450 ON THE DOOR / AED 450 VIP 
 
(AED 600 VIP (Access to raised VIP platform with exclusive bars and bathrooms 
 
FOR TABLE BOOKINGS call: +971 55 200 4321� 
 
�.This is a 21+ event and ID will be required 
 
�For further editorial enquiries, contact Sarah Walker, PR Director at Think... Events, Marketing 
 
PR at: sarahwalker@thinkme.ae and +971 4 368 9977 & 
 
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The Kings of Leon hadn�t even started to think about making a new album when 
they headed out to play shows in Australia and South Africa in late 2011. The� 
four Followills � singer/ guitarist Caleb, guitarist Matthew, drummer Nathan,� 
bassist Jared � had been on a fairly relentless grind for the preceding eight� 
years, releasing five albums and touring the world dozens of times since� 
emerging from Nashville in early 2003. They exhausted themselves to the point� 
of needing a concrete break that summer, and they announced they�d be taking� 
six months off after the Australia tour. The plan was to relax at home in Nashville� 
� hang out with their families, play golf, barbecue, and not even touch their� 
instruments. But these Kings never can seem to let more than a few months pass� 
without writing new songs: Caleb sat down in his hotel room in South Africa and� 
penned a pair of tracks that set the tone for their new album, Mechanical Bull,� 
and there wasn�t really any stopping from there. 
 
Those songs � a powerful strutter called �Temple� that consolidates all the� 
best elements of the band�s first three albums into one of their most irresistible,� 
signature-sounding bangers yet, and the soaring ballad �Comeback Story,� which� 
injects trademark Followill humor into its otherwise heartbreaking tone �� 
catalyzed an album that sounds like a more refined version of classic Kings. �We� 
wanted to write songs that are like a little two and a half minute punch in the� 
face,� Nathan says of the eleven tunes on their sixth studio album, which clocks� 
in at an all-too-brief 42 minutes. �We wanted to make a record that as soon as� 
it�s over, people want to play it again. I call this one our unofficial greatest hits,� 
because it has a couple songs that will appeal to fans of every Kings of Leon� 
album: If you�re a Youth & Young Manhood fan, you�re gonna love �Family Tree,�� 
because it�s funky and dirty and nasty. If you�re into A-ha Shake Heartbreak,� 
you�re gonna love �Supersoaker.�� 
 
After they returned home from South Africa, Caleb discovered a musical sweet� 
spot pretty quickly. �Once I found out my wife was pregnant, I would cook all� 
day and hang out with her, and then I�d put her to bed at night and go to my� 
office,� he says. �I have a little amp in there, and I�d sit there learning new chords� 
and trying to push myself. I would know I was onto something good if the door� 
would open and it was Lily going, �What is THAT? Record that!� She got me a little� 
recorder and I started to find this zone where you could paint a picture without� 
it having to be about yourself. It�s good to get to let your hair down a bit and lose� 
yourself in a song.� 
 
The following year, Nathan and Caleb joined guitarist Matthew in the KoL dads� 
club, welcoming baby daughters in December and July, respectively. But Caleb� 
had continued amassing song ideas, and by the time the Followills got together� 
last fall, he listened back to his demos and found close to twenty ideas he felt� 
good about presenting to the band. �I think Caleb was more surprised than any of� 
us at how much we embraced the songs immediately,� says Nathan. �We went in� 
the studio and he played like six of them in a row where we were like �YES!�� 
�There are more layers to this album than there have been before,� says Jared,� 
who names songs like the hard-driving �Don�t Matter� and a sweetly sad track� 
called �Wait For Me� as personal favorites. 
�We were all secretly paying attention to what people have been saying about� 
us � our fans and what they wanted to hear,� Caleb says. �We didn�t want songs� 
sounding alike. We wanted songs to be anthemic in a different way than they� 
had been before. We didn�t want songs to be all stretched out and reverby; we� 
wanted it a little raw. We wanted it to kind of feel like, at times you�re playing� 
with the only amp you have and the only guitar you have and you gotta make it� 
work.� 
 
The recording process was all about making shit work: The Kings had purchased� 
a building that used to be a paint factory in a neighborhood Nathan describes� 
as �the Hell�s Kitchen of Nashville.� They figured they�d use it as a rehearsal� 
space for a while, and eventually convert it into their own studio. But after only� 
a couple weeks of rehearsals they felt ready to start making the new album.� 
The Kings invited their longtime producer Angelo Petraglia to come hear what� 
they were working on and told him, �We�re gonna do the album here.� �He was� 
like, �no way we�ll ever be ready in time,�� Caleb says. �We were like, �we�re doing� 
it HERE.�� 
Since they hadn�t actually converted it into a studio yet, they didn�t have� 
anything set up properly when they started Mechanical Bull, which they� 
recorded over the course of eight weeks this winter with producer Petraglia� 
and engineer James Brown. �What it looks like now compared to what it was, I� 
would never have dreamed it,� adds Nathan. �It�s still only 50 percent done. The� 
fact that we made our album there and it sounds as good as it does sonically is a� 
miracle.� 
 
�It was like our little clubhouse,� says Caleb. �The first month working in there,� 
we didn�t even have furniture. It was the wild west � an open frontier. There� 
was no right way or wrong way to do it, because it was the first record we�d done� 
in there. But we did it, and honest to god it was so much fun.� 
�I think taking a little break reminded us not just that we�re blessed to get to do� 
what we do for a living at all,� says Nathan, �but it also reminded us of the type of� 
music we can make when we�re all in the right headspace. Kings of Leon making� 
a fun record, that�s what we are. That�s what made our fans fall in love with us in� 
the first place.�</div>

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