Brandon Flowers: Tilburg, Netherlands – Videos

Crossfire

 

Only The Young

 

Mr Brightside (clips)

 

Brandon Flowers, Offenbach – Videos

Crossfire

Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts

Swallow It

Brandon Flowers – Hove Festival – Videos

These videos are not very good quality, but Hove Festival pictures and videos were hard to come by so I thought I would share a few anyway.

Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas

Crossfire

 

Magdalena

Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts

Hard Enough (with Jenny Lewis) (clips)

Only The Young

Mr Brightside

With Bright Eyes – Four Winds

Brandon Flowers Live From Abbey Road

Brandon Flowers has been at Abbey Road Studios today recording an episode of Live From Abbey Road. The episode will be aired on 20th July on Channel 4

Brandon Flowers Hove Festival Review

Finally seeing some reviews and news from Brandon Flowers’ performance at Hove Festival in Norway on 29 June. Below is an excerpt from blogger This Is Even’s review of Day 2 of the festival.

Then there was the Las Vegas charmer that is Brandon Flowers. He comes across as such a shy, humble, polite and lovable person. His movements on stage are almost a bit awkward and stilted, but at the same time he exudes a stylish arrogance and confidence that only a rockstar can. I love how he makes the crowd feel appreciated and included in the concert. A true master of the stage, even own his own without the bigger presence of The Killers. He even did a guest appearance during Bright Eyes’ gig later on, which made the otherwise calm and swaying Bright Eyes fans go absolutely crazy.

You can read the full blog here.

NME Give Big Talk a “First Listen”

First Listen: Ronnie Vannucci ‘Big Talk’

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By Emily Mackay

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He’s always had the patter, has Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci (aka The Interesting One) and it’s no surprise that he’s on ebullient form on his debut solo album. But given Ronnie’d never really sung properly until last September, is it all mouth, no trousers? Let’s check ‘Big Talk’’s inside leg measurement, shall we?

Katzenjammer
Well, you can’t say he doesn’t know how to make an entrance. A long, slow glimmering dawn of 80s soft-rock synths is suddenly lit up by Ronnie’s fiery “HYAH!” and a Who-ish explosion of drums, before we’re hit with the hands-down best first line of the year: “It’s not too early for whiskey”. And that’s just the START. With feelgood Tom Petty guitars, and a hard-rockin’ bridge, the similarity of Ronnie and Brandon’s vocals make this sound a bit like Springsteen-love-era Killers road-tripping into the sun with ZZ Top.

Getaways
A gently chugging verse with the oh-so-slightest cod-reggae tinge in the keyboard vamps blooms into a all-American air-punch of a Tom Pettyesque chorus. The guitar lines are the kind that open up vistas of escape (“You said you want out / you said you want everything / Baby won’t you take it from my cold dead hands”…) alternating between edgy Television tones and full-on Eagle-cheese. We’re already getting the feeling Ronnie Vannucci would be an awesome guy to hang out with. Imagine if you got him and Andrew WK in the same room! The talk would be big, the party would be hard.

Under Water
Sort of liked a smoothed-out, calmed-down Strokes, like someone gave them a back massage on a yacht, a pint and a spliff and made them listen to loads of Bachman Turner Overdrive. There’s a great bit in the bridge where Ronnie drops into comedy tough-guy voice and slurs something like “who’s there hanging on your side/Take this kiss like cyanide”. According to the big ol’ HELL YEAH chorus, we don’t have to keep Ronnie underwater; this is because he is neither a spent nuclear fuel rod, or a goldfish.

The Next One Living
A step down in pace with simple, repetitive lyrics, Creedence-does-Beatles vibes, countryish, romantic and regretful.

Replica
A narky-sounding coil of feedback leads into a great whacking rhythm, spangled with touches of proper Steve Winwood-style 80s keys. Not quite a power ballad, but only a couple of twists on the wind-machine dial and a abrasive riff away from it.

No Whiskey
Goodness, is Ronnie having some sort of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Iver moment, all fingerpicked and bare and ghostly ? Admittedly this is rougher and more bluesy than that, but still, please don’t grow a straggly beard and go and live in a shed, Ronnie.

Girl At Sunrise
Back to Big Talk bigtime feelgood radio pop. There’s something about the sunbrowned tone of those guitars and Ronnie’s big cuddly voice that just makes your guts grin.

White Dove
This one is harder country-rocking, with sassy handclaps and a punchy, slightly glammy chorus.

Living In Pictures
A nagging lick, a rush of drums, and Ronnie duetting with himself, again this one’s got touches of The Whos about it (Ronnie did recently tell NME that he “had a kinship with that crazy motherfucker” Keith Moon).

Hunting Season
Another solid steering wheel tapper with a touch of glitz in those ritzy keys and some backing ooh-oohs.

A Fine Time To Need Me
YES – I love a proper ‘one-two-three’ count in, and this belter is certainly big enough to merit it, all twangin’ and swaggering round like cock of the walk. “Oh, darlin’, why you gotta give me problems” crows Ronnie, before a giddy melodic rush of a chorus.

Big Eye
A slightly grungy blues mooch, with scratchy, PJ Harveyish guitar. Ronnie’s on about whiskey again. Well, at least we know what to get him for Christmas. And for breakfast.

The verdict:
Well, we’ve checked and everything about this is indeed BIG. The talk, the drums, the personality, the production, the tunes, the general levels of ludicrousness. Too big to fail, you might say, but then we’ve heard that one before, right?

Source: NME

Vote for The Killers in NME’s Best Glastonbury Performance

NME’s latest poll is Greatest Glastonbury Performance Ever and The Killers’ 2005 set at the Pyramid Stage is in the running. You can go and vote here