V Festival 2010 received A major accolade with well-travelled rock band Kings of Leon declaring it their ‘best night ever.’

Nathan Folowill tweeted “Staffordshire ya’ll were the s**t…Thanks 4 the best night ever.  I’m officially on vacation, so the drinks are flowing like booze.  Staffordshire WTF? Ya’ll were beyond amazing.”

The band had already made no secret of the admiration they held for the popular music event and in an interview with T4 lead singer Caleb lauded it as one of the cleanest and classiest festivals they have played – high praise indeed coming from touring veterans.

As well as treating an appreciative audience to some highlights of their back-catalogue, the Kings also performed three brand new tracks from their upcoming album ‘Come Around Sundown.’  The album will be the groups’ fifth and hope to replicate the phenomenal reception of ‘Because of the Times’ and ‘Only By the Night.’  Judging by the response of the assembled masses, they needn’t worry too much.

Despite this, Caleb followed the set by suggesting that the group already had enough money and would be driven by their love of music rather than commercial success, telling Virgin Radio: ‘We’re already plenty rich, we don’t need it.  We’re like thousand-aires, multiple thousand, multiple.’

Such a refreshing outlook away from profit driven, churn and burn, instant fame.

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