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Honestly, all three "new" tunes for the Rebel Diamonds compilation felt like they were Brandon solo cuts more than tunes for The Killers. I know he says they scrapped an album and those were the leftovers they wanted to keep.

 

But each one is basically a twist on a different touchstone: Boy is Erasure's A Little Respect gone heartland disco, Your Side of Town is a Pet Shop Boys-twist on New Order's True Faith, and Spirit is basically a club-rock interpretation of Underworld's Born Slippy.

 

That's not exactly new: Imploding the Mirage felt like a big grab bag of different influences. (Running Towards a Place is pure Fleetwood Mac, Fire in Bone is Talking Heads in funk mode, When the Dreams Run Dry builds its outro off The Highwaymen's Highwayman, etc.)

 

But I'm a little surprised to not see Spirit get more airtime. Think all three could feature in a Brandon solo show.

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  On 12/18/2024 at 7:18 PM, charlierc said:

Two albums - Flamingo and The Desired Effect.

 

Both have some alright tunes on them, although the blurriness of the lines of late means they could both be Killers albums imo.

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I'll certainly give them a listen to! 👍🏻

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  On 12/18/2024 at 10:51 PM, Suprefan said:

Theyre turning themselves into a casino act now. 3 booked gigs over here now announced at sh*tty casinos with overpriced tickets. They really dont care now

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Highland is the one that some fans seem to be particularly aggrieved by judging by comments from fans that didn't enjoy their previous visit there.

 

Then again, they've done a sh*t ton of corporate gigs over the years. I'm not surprised if they're doing gigs for the cash.

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  On 12/18/2024 at 10:51 PM, Suprefan said:

Theyre turning themselves into a casino act now. 3 booked gigs over here now announced at sh*tty casinos with overpriced tickets. They really dont care now

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They can still shift tickets, so don't need to sell out too much.  Are these casino's sh*tty then?  The Vegas shows make sense I guess, being their roots etc. but?

 

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  On 12/19/2024 at 3:28 PM, DomDom1984 said:

I have no problem with bands chasing the cash. 

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I'm not necessarily opposed to it either, but it does seem as though after scrapping the album and using the singles for the Rebel Diamonds greatest hits parade, at what point do we think they'd have a better use of their time returning to the studio to make the next album?

 

I'm aware realistically they have the back catalogue to just play wherever they want, but it seems a bit being stuck on a loop. 

 

Saying that, and as said, seems like we've been waiting a bit for the initially broadcast idea of a new Flowers solo LP.

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  On 12/19/2024 at 6:47 PM, stuie said:

 

They can still shift tickets, so don't need to sell out too much.  Are these casino's sh*tty then?  The Vegas shows make sense I guess, being their roots etc. but?

 

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Yamaava is like not that great of a casino since Ive actually been there. It had a different name before but they had a re brand and of course LN now uses it to put some high profile acts into a smaller setting and overcharge to kingdom come.  The Hard Rock in Wheatland kind of speaks for itself. I mean, I loved the Hard Rock in Vegas but one thats north of Sacramento aint it, esp there where its ghetto as hell. Harrahs in Laughlin, again, its f**king Laughlin. Youre on the border or Arizona and Nevada in the asscrack of the desert at a knock off of the original Harrahs in Vegas. And Laughlin is C level casino vibes. So yeah, theyre taking the money but also putting themselves at a level they shouldnt really even be considering for 15 years if theyre still a band by then. A friend of mine who is a huge Killers fan and went to the Vegas residency isnt gonna touch that Highland show with a 10 foot pole.


 

 

  On 12/19/2024 at 8:50 AM, charlierc said:

Highland is the one that some fans seem to be particularly aggrieved by judging by comments from fans that didn't enjoy their previous visit there.

 

Then again, they've done a sh*t ton of corporate gigs over the years. I'm not surprised if they're doing gigs for the cash.

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Yamaava( highland ) is crazy priced and I assume its due to the audience. Cause they comp a bunch of the good seats despite the fact that they ask $800 to be anywhere close at minimum. Just the other week there were people having a fight at Mariah Carey's holiday concert there. Who fights at a Mariah Carey show? Oh, drunk casino people.

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  On 12/19/2024 at 10:30 PM, Suprefan said:

Yamaava( highland ) is crazy priced and I assume its due to the audience. Cause they comp a bunch of the good seats despite the fact that they ask $800 to be anywhere close at minimum. Just the other week there were people having a fight at Mariah Carey's holiday concert there. Who fights at a Mariah Carey show? Oh, drunk casino people.

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Brandon Flowers has kicked people out for fighting in the crowd before, so maybe that's a precedent to fall back on if it happens here.

 

I mean, I've moaned about US ticket prices before - seeing Muse, Arctic Monkeys and Green Day tours of the US sell for at least 2/3 times their UK or European equivalents, so it's not that unheard of. Just one of those things where you can go "... I'm sorry wut". But clearly some will stay pay the price regardless judging by browsing of the fan Reddit and other things.

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  On 12/26/2024 at 12:10 PM, NorthernSoul52 said:

Lower-end price points for The Killers have been pretty decent next to contemporaries in recent times. We'll see if they keep next time out. 

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I went for the cheapest tix at the London O2 show in July, which was about £65.

 

Maybe it's my inherent stinginess that feels narked it was double what it was in 2009 when I first saw them, or that a standing ticket was another £40 on top of the £75 range that the 2022 summer stadium shows are. But it's almost by the by to moan about gig tickets at this moment in time given how much the price of them has skyrocketed since covid. Bloody covid.

 

On the cheaper end I saw tribute act The Fillers at a club in Milton Keynes a year and a half ago, who Ronnie has jammed with before. That was good fun.

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So originally I thought The Killers were having a quiet year while Brandon did a solo project. 

 

Announcing themselves for an early May festival in Tennessee, to go with the extra shows of the Hot Fuss in full in Las Vegas residency this week and a few February dates makes me think, not so much.

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  On 1/23/2025 at 8:17 AM, NorthernSoul52 said:

Given that I'd anticipate Brandon's next solo band will basically be the touring line-up minus Ronnie, it's not inconceivable that there are just a few big shows dotted around other dates for the former.

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I assume there'll be one Killers project to come tbf given these extra Las Vegas Hot Fuss shows have had extra cameras with the idea of them being filmed for a special.

 

But yeah, perhaps. That was the dynamic I seem to recall that happened in 2015/16 around the release of Desired Effect.

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I'm curious for a Brandon solo album, but at the same time, there isn't much escaping the sense that we feel like we've heard a lot of could-have-been material for it over the past few years. All three of the Rebel Diamonds offcuts felt like they'd been cribbed from solo conversations, and think there's a case to be made that some tracks from Imploding the Mirage and Pressure Machine started life as plans for a solo record too.

 

I like both albums immensely - would actually argue they are in the top three or four records from them for consistency, if not high-water marks per song - but it does feel like Wonderful Wonderful was the last "The Killers" album some days.

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See there was little variation on the latest batch of Vegas shows in terms of setlist. I know it is a bit of a poor moan when they actually played a fair few deeper cuts for the first time in a good while on the Rebel Diamonds run - still bitter I swapped my Manchester show and missed all the favourites I've never caught - but I do hope whenever they tour in earnest the next time around, there's a bit more play in the setlist.

 

Say you're doing a twenty-song show behind a new record. Give five over to the latest LP, then have a fixed eight "standards" - Mr. BrightsideAll These Things That I've DoneSomebody Told MeWhen You Were Young, Read My MindHumanRunaways and Caution - and then just go mad on the other seven. (Preferably career-spanning in the process.)

 

It won't happen. But to say Brandon is an avowed Springsteen fan, would be lovely to see an old-school Boss approach to the shape and structure of their shows.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 9:20 PM, NorthernSoul52 said:

See there was little variation on the latest batch of Vegas shows in terms of setlist. I know it is a bit of a poor moan when they actually played a fair few deeper cuts for the first time in a good while on the Rebel Diamonds run - still bitter I swapped my Manchester show and missed all the favourites I've never caught - but I do hope whenever they tour in earnest the next time around, there's a bit more play in the setlist.

 

Say you're doing a twenty-song show behind a new record. Give five over to the latest LP, then have a fixed eight "standards" - Mr. BrightsideAll These Things That I've DoneSomebody Told MeWhen You Were Young, Read My MindHumanRunaways and Caution - and then just go mad on the other seven. (Preferably career-spanning in the process.)

 

It won't happen. But to say Brandon is an avowed Springsteen fan, would be lovely to see an old-school Boss approach to the shape and structure of their shows.

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If your going to mix up the setlist surely Las Vegas is the last place you'd do it really

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  On 1/31/2025 at 8:38 AM, gfa said:

If your going to mix up the setlist surely Las Vegas is the last place you'd do it really

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Oh, yeah. Those shows being static makes plenty of sense, especially if they are being filmed for a home release too.

 

But beyond that, it would be nice to see a little more life beyond the obvious shouts.

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