Track Review: Killers, Coldplay, Bono
You’d think what with all the feathery epaulettes and artfully torn jackets there’d be no room for Bono’s ego, but Shepherd’s Bush Empire is huge. Having rehearsed for mere minutes, the unholy trinity muster a rousing version of The...
The Killers
It hasn’t been the greatest of autumns for stadium indie’s class of 2003, returning with their third albums. The scrawny Razorlight tried to reinvent themselves with U2 bombast, but displayed a spectacular misunderstanding of what makes that...
The Killers
First of all, let’s all agree on the fact that The Killers are a simply ludicrous band. If you need a convincing reason why, let’s start with the fact that they’re from Las Vegas; a cartoon city, a place where people get bored so quickly...
The Killers
As Brandon wails while his band turn into an epic Erasure, ‘Human’ marks the point where the synth jubilance of ‘Somebody Told Me’ gallops into ‘Sam’s Town’ guns blazing; Killers in finest breeze-rock mettle. The chorus refers to...
The Killers: 'Sawdust'
It’s hard to dislike The Killers. No, scratch that. It’s actually really easy to dislike The Killers. It always has been, ever since Brandon Flowers first launched his guy-lined mug on to the world’s stage, preening in hammy monotone about...
The Killers
Who ever told Brandon Flowers to start aping The Boss had their heart well and truly in the right place, but did they know it would come to this in the end? Depending on how you look at it, this tune is either utterly amazing, or an embarrassing...
The Killers: Brixton Carling Academy, London;...
Adulation. Adoration. Umpteen million in album sales. A Jedi craves not these things, but Brandon Flowers is no Jedi. While bands such as The Horrors thrive on their polarising approach to, well, just about everything, there’s something...
The Killers: Bones
You probably know this already, but heck, know it again. Simple as you like and effortlessly loveable, ‘Bones’ is right out of an ’80s teen movie with its scratchy riffs and ever-so-slightly cheesy keyboard noodles – and in the realms of...
The Killers: Sam’s Town
Before we go any further we need to set the record straight. Three and a bit years ago, at the very start of The Killers’ UK assault, this writer reviewed one of their live shows and suggested that, bar the odd freak storm of melodic synth...
The Killers: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool;...
Being the closest thing Britain has to Las Vegas, Blackpool is the perfect location for the first Killers show on these shores for over 12 months. Actually, Las Vegas doesn’t have anything anywhere near as good as the Pleasure Beach – although...
