Week 111 : Day 7 : Glastonbury 2007, NME interview, Mexico and Argentina dates
News
Head to Jook's for video of The Killers' phenomenal set at Glastonbury. Watch Sam's Town at Glastonbury 2007 on YouTube.
The Killers will perform at Festival de Otoño in Mexico on October 19, according to La Crónica de Hoy. - Thanks to caleb.kane!
The Killers will play in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November, according to Rolling Stone Latinoamérica. - Thanks to Coco215!
Video
On YouTube:
NME Glastonbury interview with Dave, 23rd June 2007.
Sam's Town live at Glastonbury, June 23rd 2007.
Review
Pyramid Stage Reports: The Killers from NME, 24th June 2007
by Greg Cochrane.
Right from the off, The Killers remedied all the things that Arctic Monkeys struggled with last night - namely presence.
Without doubt the biggest crowd of the weekend so far are gathered in front of the Pyramid Stage as Brandon Flowers strolls onstage wearing a gold lamé Elvis suit which makes him and guitarist Dave Keuning look like space cadets (or baked potatoes depending on your perspective) as bright white fireworks launch into the sky. Flowers has even brought a newly customised keyboard for the occasion, festooned with reindeer antlers and a giant 'welcome' message. "People! I've got a good feeling about tonight" he announces. And it does feel special as the crowd go entirely nuts for 'Mr Brightside'.
Brandon marches about like an excitable toy soldier before 'All These Things I've Done' brings Saturday night's live proceedings to a close. Dramatic and triumphant, looks like we've seen the weekend's finest set.
Best Song: 'All These Things That I Have Done'.
Best Moment: The fireworks.
Review
The Killers play tribute to Joy Division at Glastonbury from NME, 23rd June 2007
Andy Williams also gets nod during the band's headline set
The Killers have played tribute to Joy Division during their headlining slot at Glastonbury tonight (June 23).
The band played a version of the legendary Manchester band's 'Shadowplay' during their encore.
The track is featured on the forthcoming Ian Curtis biopic 'Control'. The film was directed by Anton Corbijn who also shot the short 'Sam's Town' film that introduced the band.
Singer Brandon Flowers introduced the tune with an a cappella version of the Andy Williams classic 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'.
The band's stage show was stunning, with four sets of fireworks during an introduction based around a brilliant light show.
Frontman Flowers then appeared wearing a gold lamé suit and played behind his keyboard, which was covered in antlers.
However as with last night's Arctic Monkeys' set, there were questions over the Pyramid Stage's sound.
The crowd chanted "turn it up!" all throughout the set, complaining about the low volume of the music, and managed to force the powers that be to turn up the sound to full throttle for the encore.
The Killers played:
'Sam's Town'
'Enterlude'
'When You Were Young'
'Bones'
'Somebody Told Me'
'Smile Like You Mean It'
'Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine'
'Uncle Jonny'
'This River Is Wild'
'Read My Mind'
'On Top'
'Bling (Confessions Of A King)'
'Glamorous Indie Rock And Roll'
'Mr Brightside'
'My List'
'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'
'Shadowplay'
'For Reasons Unknown'
'All These Things That I've Done'
Review
The Killers make a splash from TVNZ, 24th June 2007
- thanks to Hermia!
American indie rock kings The Killers rounded off the second day of the Glastonbury festival with a storming 1 1/2 hour-long set that left the main stage audience cheering for more.
"Glastonbury, we are all yours!" front man Brandon Flowers in gold lame shouted as the Las Vegas group lit up the world's biggest green field art and music festival where heavy rain ensured the traditional mud bath.
Against a pyrotechnic display The Killers on Saturday played some of their biggest hits, like All These Things That I've Done and Smile Like You Mean It as well as their version of the 1960s classic Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
With attendance at a record, persistent downpours have turned farmer and festival organiser Michael Eavis's pastures into a sea of churned dirt, but festival goers were unperturbed and frolicked in the mud in rubber Wellington boots and bright ponchos.
"It's nothing like 2005 when camping areas flooded," said one festival organiser, referring to the washout year after which Eavis installed an elaborate drainage system. "We're hoping this is the last day of heavy rain."
Almost 180,000 people are thought to have headed to Eavis's farm to revel in the music, dance, poetry, politics and alternative therapies at the festival that started in the 1970s as a hippy haven for music and flower power in the rural hills of southwest England.
As well as The Killers, British singer Lilly Allen was a highlight of Saturday's line-up, with rock legends Iggy and the Stooges, music inspiration Paul Weller, The Guillemots and the Klaxons.
An afternoon gig by indie rock band The Bees left the crowd buzzing, with tracks including, appropriately, Wash in the Rain with the audience dancing as the heavens opened. Some daubed their faces with mud like war paint.
Bad boy rocker Pete Doherty and his band Babyshambles, dressed as 1930s gangsters, took advantage of a brief appearance of the sun and played a popular set, with Doherty's partner supermodel Kate Moss joining in on backing vocals.
Dirty Pretty Things, featuring Doherty's former Libertines band mate Carl Barat, made their debut Glastonbury performance to riotous applause singing tracks including Bang Bang You're Dead and Gin and Milk. Barat told the saturated afternoon crowd: "This is for everyone who stayed up or got up to see us."
Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro belted out favourites Saturday Spiderhouse and Living is a Problem Because Everyone Dies.
During the weekend, non-musical activities abounded.
If graffiti artist Banksy's mock Stonehenge made of mobile toilets, or aromatherapy treatments failed to attract, Mutoid Waste Company offered Trash City "an intergalactic red-light district where space pirates, bootleggers, illegal aliens and all the scum of the universe can come to party the night away".
The Big Kiss aimed to break the Guinness World Record for mass kissing, trying to encourage 45,000 couples to kiss at the same time, while organisers hoped to get 100,000 festival goers to sign up to the I Count campaign against climate change.
More than 1,200 people suffered sprains and bruises, mostly after losing their balance in the mud, with some needing hospital treatment. There were a few dozen arrests, mainly for drugs. One man was in critical condition after a suspected overdose.
Media Watch
The Killers are in Vegas magazine (June issue)
The Killers are on the cover of the latest La Mosca magazine
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Head to Jook's for video of The Killers' phenomenal set at Glastonbury. Watch Sam's Town at Glastonbury 2007 on YouTube.
The Killers will perform at Festival de Otoño in Mexico on October 19, according to La Crónica de Hoy. - Thanks to caleb.kane!
The Killers will play in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November, according to Rolling Stone Latinoamérica. - Thanks to Coco215!
Video
On YouTube:
NME Glastonbury interview with Dave, 23rd June 2007.
Sam's Town live at Glastonbury, June 23rd 2007.
Review
Pyramid Stage Reports: The Killers from NME, 24th June 2007
by Greg Cochrane.
Right from the off, The Killers remedied all the things that Arctic Monkeys struggled with last night - namely presence.
Without doubt the biggest crowd of the weekend so far are gathered in front of the Pyramid Stage as Brandon Flowers strolls onstage wearing a gold lamé Elvis suit which makes him and guitarist Dave Keuning look like space cadets (or baked potatoes depending on your perspective) as bright white fireworks launch into the sky. Flowers has even brought a newly customised keyboard for the occasion, festooned with reindeer antlers and a giant 'welcome' message. "People! I've got a good feeling about tonight" he announces. And it does feel special as the crowd go entirely nuts for 'Mr Brightside'.
Brandon marches about like an excitable toy soldier before 'All These Things I've Done' brings Saturday night's live proceedings to a close. Dramatic and triumphant, looks like we've seen the weekend's finest set.
Best Song: 'All These Things That I Have Done'.
Best Moment: The fireworks.
Review
The Killers play tribute to Joy Division at Glastonbury from NME, 23rd June 2007
Andy Williams also gets nod during the band's headline set
The Killers have played tribute to Joy Division during their headlining slot at Glastonbury tonight (June 23).
The band played a version of the legendary Manchester band's 'Shadowplay' during their encore.
The track is featured on the forthcoming Ian Curtis biopic 'Control'. The film was directed by Anton Corbijn who also shot the short 'Sam's Town' film that introduced the band.
Singer Brandon Flowers introduced the tune with an a cappella version of the Andy Williams classic 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'.
The band's stage show was stunning, with four sets of fireworks during an introduction based around a brilliant light show.
Frontman Flowers then appeared wearing a gold lamé suit and played behind his keyboard, which was covered in antlers.
However as with last night's Arctic Monkeys' set, there were questions over the Pyramid Stage's sound.
The crowd chanted "turn it up!" all throughout the set, complaining about the low volume of the music, and managed to force the powers that be to turn up the sound to full throttle for the encore.
The Killers played:
'Sam's Town'
'Enterlude'
'When You Were Young'
'Bones'
'Somebody Told Me'
'Smile Like You Mean It'
'Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine'
'Uncle Jonny'
'This River Is Wild'
'Read My Mind'
'On Top'
'Bling (Confessions Of A King)'
'Glamorous Indie Rock And Roll'
'Mr Brightside'
'My List'
'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You'
'Shadowplay'
'For Reasons Unknown'
'All These Things That I've Done'
Review
The Killers make a splash from TVNZ, 24th June 2007
- thanks to Hermia!
American indie rock kings The Killers rounded off the second day of the Glastonbury festival with a storming 1 1/2 hour-long set that left the main stage audience cheering for more.
"Glastonbury, we are all yours!" front man Brandon Flowers in gold lame shouted as the Las Vegas group lit up the world's biggest green field art and music festival where heavy rain ensured the traditional mud bath.
Against a pyrotechnic display The Killers on Saturday played some of their biggest hits, like All These Things That I've Done and Smile Like You Mean It as well as their version of the 1960s classic Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
With attendance at a record, persistent downpours have turned farmer and festival organiser Michael Eavis's pastures into a sea of churned dirt, but festival goers were unperturbed and frolicked in the mud in rubber Wellington boots and bright ponchos.
"It's nothing like 2005 when camping areas flooded," said one festival organiser, referring to the washout year after which Eavis installed an elaborate drainage system. "We're hoping this is the last day of heavy rain."
Almost 180,000 people are thought to have headed to Eavis's farm to revel in the music, dance, poetry, politics and alternative therapies at the festival that started in the 1970s as a hippy haven for music and flower power in the rural hills of southwest England.
As well as The Killers, British singer Lilly Allen was a highlight of Saturday's line-up, with rock legends Iggy and the Stooges, music inspiration Paul Weller, The Guillemots and the Klaxons.
An afternoon gig by indie rock band The Bees left the crowd buzzing, with tracks including, appropriately, Wash in the Rain with the audience dancing as the heavens opened. Some daubed their faces with mud like war paint.
Bad boy rocker Pete Doherty and his band Babyshambles, dressed as 1930s gangsters, took advantage of a brief appearance of the sun and played a popular set, with Doherty's partner supermodel Kate Moss joining in on backing vocals.
Dirty Pretty Things, featuring Doherty's former Libertines band mate Carl Barat, made their debut Glastonbury performance to riotous applause singing tracks including Bang Bang You're Dead and Gin and Milk. Barat told the saturated afternoon crowd: "This is for everyone who stayed up or got up to see us."
Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro belted out favourites Saturday Spiderhouse and Living is a Problem Because Everyone Dies.
During the weekend, non-musical activities abounded.
If graffiti artist Banksy's mock Stonehenge made of mobile toilets, or aromatherapy treatments failed to attract, Mutoid Waste Company offered Trash City "an intergalactic red-light district where space pirates, bootleggers, illegal aliens and all the scum of the universe can come to party the night away".
The Big Kiss aimed to break the Guinness World Record for mass kissing, trying to encourage 45,000 couples to kiss at the same time, while organisers hoped to get 100,000 festival goers to sign up to the I Count campaign against climate change.
More than 1,200 people suffered sprains and bruises, mostly after losing their balance in the mud, with some needing hospital treatment. There were a few dozen arrests, mainly for drugs. One man was in critical condition after a suspected overdose.
Media Watch
The Killers are in Vegas magazine (June issue)
The Killers are on the cover of the latest La Mosca magazine
--
For all the latest news, register as a member of the official community: http://comunita.thekillersmusic.com