Were a pattern knowledgeable to look at the fortnight’s large gig listings, they is likely to be forgiven for assuming that we’re within the midst of an early 2000s revival. My Chemical Romance are again and enjoying huge out of doors gigs, David Grey is doing White Ladder in full, and the Killers are warming up for a stadium run with this comparatively intimate Sheffield present. Music has modified a lot since we first met, however while you’ve received a pocketful of hits and a roomful of nostalgic millennials clamouring to listen to them, what’s a number of years between pals?
The Killers’ touring lineup has been tweaked considerably over time, however singer Brandon Flowers remains to be the consummate Vegas showman. Leg nearly completely cocked on a speaker, he punches the air and factors his fingers with the pomp of an Elvis impersonator, conducting the plenty. “Sing me a lullaby!”, he roars playfully on When You Had been Younger because it hurtles headlong into its formidable guitar solo.
It’s a daring opener, however because the present continues, his megawatt grin is just not the one factor that the venue’s low ceiling is struggling to comprise. Hardly ever internet hosting a band of this bombast, the PA groans, coating the slower album cuts in a heavy sludge. Fortunately, we’re not often greater than three songs away from a slice of heaven from debut Scorching Fuss. The life that Mr Brightside has taken on within the UK is the stuff of lore, and when it drops mid-set, the bellowed chants that greet it shortly overwhelms any criticism of the speaker system. In such a clammy room, it’s nearly punishing to instantly comply with it with Any individual Informed Me, but it surely’s an indulgent thrill that this viewers of superfans earns.
Earlier than a touching rendition of A Dustland Fairytale, Flowers praises the UK as their “non secular dwelling … I hope you may hear that we’re real once we speak about how a lot we adore it right here”. It's a sentiment repeated by drummer Ronnie Vannucci on the present’s finish, climbing down from his package to humbly thank us for supporting one thing that to them has at all times been “excess of a job”. Tonight’s cage may not have been as grand because the Killers are used to, however with 20 years of follow and the gang on their facet, they’re nonetheless popping out of it with fashion.
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