Kings of Leon sorry for Reading 2009 set

Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill has admitted that he was at fault for their performance at last year's Reading Festival.

The singer and guitarist cursed at the audience after the band's performance was not well-received, before further berating the crowd on Twitter days later.

He told BBC 6 Music: "After we finished the tour [in 2009], after we went home, after about three weeks, I came to terms with it and I was proud of what we'd done.

"I wanted to do some interviews and just apologise for my attitude. We took it out on a lot of people, me particularly, I took it out on audiences. I forget which festival it was - was it Reading? - where we had a big backlash."

Followill, 28, added: "I took it out on the crowd, and at the end of the day it was probably our fault. Because of the success I expected everyone to [cheer] for everything we did.

"That was my Kurt Cobain moment when I was hating the success and I was scared that people were thinking that we did this on purpose, that we made this record (2008's Only By The Night) so that it could be big."