Uh oh, another bomb for Kings Of Leon, Mechanical Bull was a major disaster, and it wasn’t that bad a song but it wasn’t that good either. They kinda sucked live at MSG, were better at Central Park when they only had to perform for an hour.
The net result is Kings Of Leon have stopped selling out arenas in the middle of an arena tour and have to fill up the bodies somehow and here come Groupon to fill in the seats, or rather stands. $25 for a tix to Kings Of Leon? You can’t see the Both at Bowery Ballroom for that. Hell, you can barely get into a 3D movie for it. But thus have the mighty fallen.
While I kinda feel bad for the band, the other half of the equation is that KoL are such dicks they kinda have it coming. Anyway for four more days get tickets heavily discounted to their Bethel Woods gig as they put the group into Groupon. To add insult to injury, they’ve only sold 30 tickets last time I looked.
$25 for one G-Pass to see Kings of Leon (up to $36 value)
When: Saturday, August 16 at 7 p.m.
Where: Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
General-admission lawn
Door time: 6 p.m.
Ticket values include all fees.
Click here to view the seating chart
How G-Pass Works: Your G-Pass will be ready to print 48 hours after the deal ends. Print the G-Pass and use it to enter the venue directly; you won’t need to redeem at will call. Due to security restrictions, G-Passes cannot be redeemed through the Groupon mobile app. Discount reflects the merchant’s current ticket prices – price may differ on day of event.
Kings of Leon
The Kings of Leon: brothers Caleb, Nathan, and Jared Followill, and cousin Matthew Followill based out of Nashville, TN
The hits that cemented their global takeover: “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody,” which racked up a total of four Grammy Awards
The album those hits appeared on: Only by the Night, which went double platinum in the US alone
8: the total number of countries Only by the Night went platinum in
2: the spot their sixth album, 2013’s Mechanical Bull, debuted at on the Billboard 200; it was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album of 2013
What the New York Times had to say about it: “anthemic is the goal and anthemic is the end result”
Rolling Stone’s take: writer Jon Dolan said the songs “quake with soul, country, and gospel history”
Check out: “Wait For Me,” the latest single from the new album Mechanical Bull
