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ATTTID romeo and juliet or move away or who let you go

evening all, how is everyone today? :)

my list :wub: "I spent two long years in a strange strange land"

another 'this week brandon looks like': http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/070502brandonlookslike.jpg the BEST one yet :rofl: :rofl:

it was a hard choice :lol: but my loyalties lie with the killers ^_^

:( i hate exams.. i'm sure it went better than you think though and at least it's over soon, right? :) i'm good, have been relaxing all day today :) the weather was so hot today as well !

yeah exactly, and when they were recording sam's town, brandon mentioned in an interview that he'd been listening to a lot of bruce springsteen, then all the reviews of the album come out saying the killers are trying too hard to sound like him on sam's town... fickle people :lol:

Mr. Brightside 7- Bones 23+ Read My Mind 44

:lol: tough... DC for now :P FRU Who Let You Go or Move Away

thanks a lot guys :) :wub: and Luc, ok sounds like a plan to me- i'll try and be a bit more proactive as well! :D anyway, how is everyone today?

does anyone know if they've started filming season 3 yet?

here are some more pictures from when i went to see them in brixton last november (taken on my friend's phone): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/DSC00424.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/DSC00423.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/DSC00422.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/DSC00421.jpg and finally my favourite of the lot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v154/aa870/DSC00420.jpg

The Killers and Glastonbury The Las Vegans are headlining - count 'em - four festivals this summer, but their hearts will always be in a muddy Somerset field If next month's Glastonbury is to be your inauguration the the festival, then it's likely that you'll be experiencing a number of 'firsts'. Your first ostrich burger, for example. The first time you've staggered into a campsite of strangers who are naked but for patches of mud. Or, if you're really unlucky - and ill-prepared to boot - the first time you've ever been forced to fork out £50 for a pair of Wellingtons. All valid pops of the great Glasto cherry of course, but for Brandon Flowers, his fondest Glastonbury 'first' proved more memorable than, say, the first time he had to clamber out of K-hole to a soundtrack of bad trance. Much, much more. "The moment I remember most clearly is just walking out on that stage," he says of The Killers' first Glastonbury experience in 2004. "I don't even remember that much of the performance. We'd been touring in America and hadn't really been in England much, but we came over in the summer to play some festivals. Something had happened while we were gone - the love for The Killers had seriously elevated or something, because the place was going crazy. And when we walked onstage, I don't remember ever having felt like that before. We were totally embraced by everyone there - it sort of caught us off-guard. And I felt like a rock star for the first time." If you ever needed proof that genuinely magical - as opposed to just illegal, immoral and downright ill-advised - things can happen when festival fever takes hold, there it is. The Killers are playing four of the buggers this year (T in the Park, Oxegen and V complete the set), but for Brandon, Glastonbury will have special significance. Two years ago the band passed on the headline slot vacated by Kylie, citing the fact that they "hadn't earned it yet". This year they return to fill it. How does that feel? "Well, we're looking forward to it," laughs Brandon. "We always talk about our last Glastonbury appearance being one of those few monumental gigs that you'll ever play, so we're hoping to be able to keep the ball rolling with this one. We felt confident about ourselves last time because we weren't headlining, but this time we're on our second album, we've got more tunes to play... we feel like we can handle it this time around. It feels strange, though, when you think that someone like Paul McCartney did it a few years ago, or even The Who doing it this year. It's unreal. "I haven't been around for that long so I haven't seen that many amazing festival performances, but I'll always remember Paul McCartney at Glastonbury in 2004. It was a great big deal for me - it was a huge thing to see one of the Fab Four live. Because I'm from America, I didn't realise at first how The Beatles are perceived in England. I guess a lot of people are bored of them. But to us, they're a massive deal. So that show was pretty special." The Killers will certainly have to drum up something pretty spectacular to top Macca's now-legendary 2004 appearance, but if there are any nerves, Brandon certainly isn't about to betray them. In fact, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was the furthest thing from his mind. "If there are to be any surprises," he says, "we certainly haven't conjured them up yet! Maybe they'll come. So far, the only thing I've thought about with regards to the festivals we're playing is what outfit I'm going to be wearing! No, that's not true. We don't wanna do the same thing every time, but we've only got two albums and you can't really mix it up so much, you know? Hopefully those songs will be enough to get us through. I don't know if we'll be playing any new songs, I don't know if they'll be ready by then. We have a lot in the works at the moment, but none that we're ready to play in front of people yet. Hopefully we'll have a good cover sorted." As massive gigs go, the top slot on the Pyramid Stage takes some beating, but it's not just the enormity of Glastonbury that's whetted Brandon's appetite for it. No, he's become embroiled in the whole Glastonbury experience: herbal ecstasy, comedy stilts, the all-encompassing Somerset Zen that permeates Worthy Farm, the whole shebang. "Well, it's just like Christmas really, isn't it? In America we believe in God and have Christmas. In England, everything's more secular, it's like you guys believe in Glastonbury! And that's beautiful. I've never seen such an exciting scene. It's completely magical, like there's something in the air, I guess. That's not to bring down the other festivals at all; bringing people together for music is always a positive thing. But Glastonbury is just special." Even a festival juggernaut as well-oiled as The Killers encounters the odd bump in the road. Although abandoning your guitarist at a Little Chef along the way could be classed as a fairly big bump. "We did manage to leave Dave [Keuning, guitarist] at a service station one the way to a festival once, that's true. But we leave Dave all over the place, that wasn't an isolated incident. He disappears off into his little bubble and doesn't come back. He's very often here in body, but not totally in mind. The last place we left him? A strip club. He didn't seem to mind." :rofl: :rofl: And despite his celebrity Mormon status, Brandon and his bandmates aren't above embracing the chaotic festival spirit(s) with everyone else. "I remember a couple of years back, I was with a band from Liverpool called The Black Velvets. Anyway, they were friends of ours and we were both playing Glastonbury and they showed me a good time afterwards. I don't even remember most of it. We were doing everything from poppers to firecrackers, man!" Ah, festivals firsts. Wonderful things.

Talking to a Killer: Brandon Flowers The American musical landscape is a vastly diverse place. In the North, California's beatnik poets and magnificently timeless songwriters ride gallantly over the horizon. In the South, blues, soul and ramshackle rock 'n' roll emanate from the Bible Belt and Route 40. Our hearts are still broken over the destruction in New Orleans, while Manhattan stands on its own as a bridge between the brawn of American audacity and English pop charm. The nation is a beautiful portrait painted by the traditions of each geographic region. With the advent of cable television and other large corporate media outlets, artistic borders have shrunk drastically in this new, unified mainstream world. The byproduct of this change is an American public who, in the majority, believes the success or merit of a musician rests within MTV Countdowns and American Idol voting. For those of us who know better, rock 'n' roll is still strong in hearts and in the minds of the people. It thrives on stepping out of the box, away from force fed formulas, all in the gamble to experience something real. And there's no better example of this modern cultural melting pot than Las Vegas, Nevada. April 19 was just like any other afternoon; a late lunch and what I thought was going to be just another interview with Sin City's The Killers, but what transpired was something that I haven't experienced from a pop artist since the Fall of 2006 with Beck. Brandon Flowers was upfront, unapologetic and real. Emerging onto the scene in 2004 with Hot Fuss, The Killers were pop music darlings cashing in on a flurry of masterfully crafted singles including "Mr. Brightside," "All These Things That I've Done" and "Smile Like You Mean It." Consisting of Flowers (vox/keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar), Mark Stoermer (bass) and Ronnie Vannucci (drums), the band is currently touring in support of their follow-up, Sam's Town, which was released last October on Island Records. "There have been a few times in my life when music has just struck me," says Flowers. "I used to hear my brother playing The Cure from his room. It was like a forbidden thing because he would hide himself in there and listen to his records and cassettes. There was something exciting about it because he was older and cool and I wasn't allowed to be in there. There were all these weird posters on his walls [laughs]. But, what I liked about The Cure was the pop songs. It made me realize how powerful music could be." "The thing that started me on music in a big way was The Cars," continues Flowers. "Later on, I started listening to The Smiths and Morrissey, which ended up being the most prevalent influences of my life. I mean Morrissey just consumed me. I eventually moved on to New Order, Bowie and the Beatles. Recently, it's been all about Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen." Originating from Las Vegas, Flowers touches upon the tinsel music scene of Sin City's desert. "People are lost in Las Vegas, but it's not their fault. The radio market is getting a little better. I think there is a new station there now," says Flowers. "It just seemed like everyone was really behind. Everybody was still doing Limp [bizkit] and Korn within the clubs. I mean if that is what is in your heart and you love it, then so be it." Asked whether the isolation of the desert contributed to the time lapse, Flowers responds, "I think it was somewhat of that. I really don't know why we were so behind on things. It was a great thing for us because we stood out! People just hated us [laughs]. I mean it was great because people publicly spoke about how much they hated us and it ended up giving me a chip on my shoulder. A chip usually isn't a positive thing, but I looked at it that way because I feel that I have something to prove." "I think that music is just as significant to people as it was in the past but I just don't think it is as good as it was," Flowers continues. "I think it is cheap and whorish - not in the way that people sell it but how they express it. They had the [supremes] in the past and now we have [Fergie]. There was a pureness to the music back then that we don't have now. Take Gwen Stefani, for example. I like this song 'Sweet Escape,' which reminds me of an old '50s girl group kind of song. But, she says, 'I'm acting like a skank' in it. That is exactly what I am talking about. Is there nothing better you can use for that lyric? I don't even know what that means exactly. Little kids are hearing this stuff and it just makes me wonder what is happening. We seem to be getting more morally terrible." What Flowers was expressing struck me as uncommon and, even more, unexpected. Here are The Killers, a pop band in every sense of the word. They're mainstays on MTV and VH1, adored by millions, but in the center of this industry induced chaos they've managed to keep their credibility. In the midst of legions of loyal fans, Flowers retains his personal ideology. "You know, man, I went to all the cafes with all the 'Indie People' and the people that say they would be happy playing at the café for the rest of their lives," Flowers says. "Those people tend to be the most arrogant and mean people in the world, and I don't like those people. I have never been shy to say this. I am not a hipster and I am not trying to be. I believe there is nothing wrong with writing good songs, and I think that is what has been lost in all of this. People are either trying to be too cool or they are worried about just selling records." "As an example, you are either Creed or you are Bright Eyes," Flowers explains. "We have lost the people who are in the middle - artists that wanted to make statements, have their credibility AND played to 30,000 every night. That gap still hasn't been fully filled. I think we are one of the bands that can do it but there is no place for it. There is no middle." Flowers' comments are eerily reminiscent of a conversation I had with another pop darling back in August of 2006. Toiling in the same indie hipster world as Flowers and The Killers, Jack White (The White Stripes, Raconteurs) had this to say: "As far as America goes, my whole trip lately has been to get as far away from hipster culture as I can. I don't want to be cool to those kids." So how does a band like The Killers, The White Stripes or any of the other popular acts who actually have something to say balance fame with substance? It's actually pretty simple - write good songs and bring them to the people. You don't have to change your name or cut your hair or endorse Miller Light to be a musician that reaches the masses. On the flip side, the simple fact is that it's okay to have your music heard by millions. Flowers is proof that you can exist in a big way in this industry while still holding tight to your artistic ethics. http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=10446 ------------- a very interesting article and insight into how brandon thinks ^_^ :wub:

believe me natalie "I just want to show you what I know"

voted ^_^

Mr. Brightside 6- Bones 18 Read My Mind 50+

well i've had exams for the past few weeks so was mega stressed with revision etc (as i'm sure you know what it's like!) so basically abandoned everything and locked myself in my room for a couple of weeks to revise, lol. it's over now though :) i'm good thanks, how are you?! i know it's been a tough few weeks for the forum, but at least we havnt dropped out of the top 20, hopefully we can rise again up the chart this week ^_^

:rofl: :rofl: it's a shame he had to cancel the concert, i feel sorry for the fans. but i guess his voice is the most important thing, so what can you do? at least it's been rescheduled and he is better now ^_^

i know i'm biased but i don't think this review is very fair if the reviewer left half way through the show, also i don't think it's the case that the band "desperately want to be U2 and Depeche Mode" at all, they are obviously influenced by these bands and their music reflects this but i'm not sure they "desperately" want to be them?! i wonder why no photographers though?

who let you go

well done for top 10 everyone, hopefully we will rise this week :)

replaceable move away or andy

not their best video, but still very funny! brandon makes for one scary chicken :lol:

congrats on this guys ^_^ , hopefully i'll be around to post a bit more on the way to 17K :)