Kings of Leon...

On Tuesday night, after a little smackeral at the Tick Tock Diner, we went to go and see Kings of Leon play at Madison Square Garden! It was absolutely AMAZING!

The crowd was building up all night, it was quite empty while the support band The Manchester Orchestra (not from Manchester, not an orchestra!) were playing, but by the time Kings of Leon were on stage there wasn't an empty seat in the whole building. It was a massive sell-out crowd.



They started off playing a few songs from their new album, which sounded even better live than they do on the record, and then they played lots of the best songs off all their albums.

I think we both enjoyed the gig a bit more than last time we saw them, last summer in New Jersey - that time Abi had literally just arrived and was a wee bit jetlagged... but this time we were both wide-awake and had a great view - it was brilliant (all except the idiot standing next to me who kept bashing into me... nevermind).

Madison Square Garden is such an exciting venue to go and see gigs in and it's felt completely different each time I've been. With Leonard Cohen it felt very relaxed and amazingly intimate, for Jack Johnson it felt like a big party and then the Kings of Leon made it feel like we were at a proper arena or festival concert.

I have a feeling that might have been our last gig of the year, but what a way to finish - one of our famous bands at one of the world's most famous venues!