Kings of Leon, the Tennessee family band Britain embraced before America did, return to London for two nights behind their tenth album, O My Beloved.
Kings of Leon, the Tennessee band behind “Sex on Fire”, play The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July 2027. The nights are part of the arena’s twentieth-birthday series of concerts.
The band are three brothers, Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill, and their cousin Matthew, and they formed in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in 1999. The brothers grew up driving through the American South with their father, a Pentecostal preacher.
The early records mixed Southern rock and garage rock with the blues, and Britain heard them first. Two BRIT Awards had arrived by 2008, and Because of the Times reached number one here before America caught up.
Only by the Night, later in 2008, took “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody” around the world, and “Use Somebody” won the Grammy for Record of the Year. The band headlined Glastonbury the same summer.
These are their first London shows since Hyde Park in 2024. They follow O My Beloved, their tenth studio album, due on 6 November 2026. Its songs reach London for the first time beside the singles that made the band’s name here.