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09:14, 14 Nov 2025
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Kings of Leon will play a stadium gig in Munster next Summer – as part of a European tour that will also bring them to Belfast for the Belsonic festival.
The Rock Band from Mount Juliet, Tennessee will play Thomand Park in Limerick on July 1st – their Belfast gig is on June 29th. There is no date yet for Cork City – but there’s a 10-day gap between Limerick and their next confirmed show in Madrid, so it’s still a possibility as more dates are added.
The Kings were Electric Picnic 2025 headliners and this Thomand Park gig is likely to be a sell-out – tickets are priced €89.75 and €99.75, including booking fee, will go on sale this Friday 21st November at 9am via Ticketmaster.ie. Tickets are subject to 12.5% service charge per ticket, max €10.50. Get from Ticketmaster next Friday here.
The band includes brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew Followill and they sold millions of albums in their heyday, with songs like ‘Sex On Fire” and “Use Somebody” becomming Noughties anthems.
The band’s early music was a blend of Southern rock and garage rock with blues influences, but it evolved as they found global success to become more mainstream ‘alternative Rock’.
Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine top 40 singles and two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band’s albums from the late Noughties peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart. Their third album, Because of the Times, reached No. 1.
After the release of Only by the Night in September 2008, the band achieved chart success in the United States. The singles “Sex on Fire”, “Use Somebody”, and “Notion” all peaked at number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album was their first platinum-selling album in the United States, and the best-selling album of 2008 in Australia, being certified platinum nine times.
They took a long ‘hiatus’ after 2011 but have never really stopped making music and touring – the Belfast and Limerick shows should bring out the Noughties kids for a blast of alt-Rock nostalgia.
