The Killers

The world of The Killers is a very strange one – you wouldn’t have thought a band clad in white suits making them look like dodgy cruise-liner cabaret singers and that also play songs that sound like synthesized Duran Duran covers could pull in the festivals biggest crowd.

But The Killers are without doubt the best out of a collection of bands that seem to borrow much of their inspiration from the 80’s. The album ‘Hot Fuss’ has sold by the bucket load and you could tell from the fantastic reception that T in The Park gave them that the owners of that album were very much in the majority.

Kicking off with ‘Jenny was a friend of mine’ the Killers took to the stage as if they owned it. Which, in all fairness they did. The band had evolved from their 2004 performance – and today their experience shone through.

Brandon Flowers commanded the over excitable crowd as they leapt up and down to ‘Somebody Told me’ and ‘Mr. Brightside’. It’s easily conceivable that The Killers managed to create the best atmosphere at T this year.

By the time they had reached the end of their set they had played a new song ‘All the pretty things’. This sounded similar to a lot of the material on ‘Hot Fuss’, but a bit mellower. The crowd had already begun to sing ‘I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier’, and it was almost impossible not to join in.

The Killers responded with ‘All These things that I’ve Done’, Flowers leading the chorus of ‘I’ve got soul...’. No female backing singers this time, just an army of about 40,000 Scots screaming at the top of their voices. If there’s one thing to be said for TITP – it’s that the crowd does make a racket!

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