Brandon Flowers (of The Killers)

listened to "Can't Deny My Love" for the first time since early May

Love "Lonely Town", especially the middle section " do you hear the thud when I fall" etc. The whole record is ace

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

mr veg was on board with the new album on paper - we listened to it in the car & as I'm
swooning & flailing he says "Its uh, a bit ~dancier~ than I thought"

:D

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

I was weirded out by that injection of autotune at first but I think without it that part just sounds too creepy

I can bend
I can break
I can shift
I can shape
Blaze a trail through the driving rain
Girl, I can change for you
I can change for you

GUYS IT WAS SO GOOD

did he dance

1) I haven't danced that much at a show in a long time.
2) He's such a good frontman*
3) At one point he said that it was the part of the show where the audience could chose a cover from a couple they'd been rehearing. He started to list off the covers and for the first he said, "A great song called "Don't Change" by INXS" which received p much no reaction from anyone in the crowd except me who literally yelp/screamed and jumped with excitement (which made people turn around and stare at me) because that's one of the best songs ever. Sadly, they didn't play that or any of the others he listed but opted for an older song instead. I'd prob have passed out if they had done it so it's ok.
4) He did a cover of a Buster Poindexter Song.
5) Did I mention that he was totally fucking amazing and engaging and great?

x-post - Oh yes he did. He is the cutest dancer!

*I'm sure I've probably told this before somewhere on here but I saw The Killers open up for Stellastarr* at the Electric Ballroom in London in 2004 a couple months before Hot Fuss was released. I had no idea who they were at the time but after watching them I said, "Whoever that band is they're going to be huge - the lead singer was fucking amazing.". It's the only time I've ever been blown away by an opening act I had never even heard of. A couple months later they were on the cover of the NME etc and I was like holy shit it's that dude!

at what point did he take his clothes off?

xp yeah i saw them on that tour too, i remember thinking they felt like a one-song band (that song being 'mr brightside') but they definitely had a special ~something~ (unlike e.g. stellastarr*)

x-post - Sadly never. He really is so beautiful. Gah.

Anyway, Al, he probably wears the magic mormon underpants ;_;.

Though I'm not sure how they'd fit under jeans that tight. huh.

he can change!

lol!

3) At one point he said that it was the part of the show where the audience could chose a cover from a couple they'd been rehearing. He started to list off the covers and for the first he said, "A great song called "Don't Change" by INXS" which received p much no reaction from anyone in the crowd except me who literally yelp/screamed and jumped with excitement (which made people turn around and stare at me) because that's one of the best songs ever. Sadly, they didn't play that or any of the others he listed but opted for an older song instead. I'd prob have passed out if they had done it so it's ok.

Appear's he's played it at other gigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtPIUsYHFA

(unlike e.g. stellastarr*)

I always get a simultaneous feeling of LOL/AWW! whenever someone brings up Stellastar*.

holy shit i just peed my pants a little

he even sounds a little like Michael fuuuuck

now if only he would strip off a la Hutchence we'd be getting somewhere

omg omg

Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.

right!?

he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"

lol YES

joined by Tennant and Lowe behind synths

something about Ariel Rechtshaid's production/mixing bugs me. pretty harsh. Haim/Sky/Flowers albums can't really be cranked too loud.

Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right!?

he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol YES

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aw, you guys are cute. And OTM. ;)

Thanks for the link, GP. I wound up finding that last night and swooning a little. Dreamy.

I had therapy last night and I told my therapist that I'd gone to the show and she was like, "You're the fifth person I've seen today that has mentioned being there last night!". So weird.

Also, fwiw, I still really like the 1st Stellastarr*'s first album.

Love the Cure shout-out that kicks off the album, like 'oh, you wanna talk about the 80s?'.