Brandon Flowers posed like a boxing champ during a shorter but no less ambitious concert
are abroad in the land, playing three-hour-plus outdoor sets in UK stadia. For America’s guitar-wielding super-elite in 2024, more is more, come rain or shine or more rain.– The Killers are “retreating” indoors. After hitting the UK’s windiest football parks for 2022’s previous tour on this side of the Atlantic, they’re playing arenas here and in Ireland. That’s 16 times, mind, with the UK leg kicking off with four nights here at Manchester’s new, 23,000-capacity giant grey box.
Still, it’s ironic as well as surprising that The Killers are scaling back. The Las Vegas band, led by fame-craving, have always been big-is-best kinda guys, their eyes long on the glittery prize, their choruses as sky-high and mile-wide as their ambition.But here they are, in venues with roofs and keeping their 21-song set on the right side of two hours. Not that anything feels pinched.
He was more than matched in the Rock Star shape-throwing by an ageless 42-year-old Flowers, resplendent in shiny suit and shinier teeth. On a pummelling “Somebody Told Me”, the first of multiple huge singalongs, Flowers posed like a boxing champ.
Come the encore, underwhelming 2022 single “Boy” – think: Pet Shop Toddlers – was trotted out. But it did what it came to do, teeing up a carousing cover of “A Little Respect”, a smart bit of set-listing owning the fact that “Boy” owes its synth refrain to Erasure’s deathless 1988 smash. And then finally, of course, was the song recently anointed the UK’s biggest ever song never to top the charts,. Cue the oblivious abandon of an arena-scale wedding disco. As Flowers had said earlier in the set: “We are The Killers, and we’re in the service industry.” In Manchester, that service was nigh impeccable.
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