Nashville troupe Kings Of Leon may have ditched their hard-living ways to record fourth album Only By The Night, but they’ll still “kick the arses” of “a lot of those bands that are big now”. Frontman Caleb Followill told UK rag The Sun this week that sacrificing drugs, booze and sleeping around has been a wise move for the family men.

“It’s eased a lot of the tensions that we had personally,” he revealed. “It’s made this a lot easier on us. When we used to come over here to Britain, it was pretty stressful. You were in your hotel room all by yourself all day. You wake up and it’s already dark out and you’re so lonely. So at night, you go out with girls.”

Just in case you feared they’ve gone soft, bassist Jared couldn’t resist putting the boot into some of their contemporaries. “We consider ourselves to be better than a lot of those bands that are big now, like Panic At The Disco or Fall Out Boy. We would love to kick their arses out of there.”