If you’ve never seen The Killers live, you should probably kick yourself. As a long-time fan, but someone who hadn’t seen them in concert until their latest studio effort, I still find myself kicking myself for never having gone to see them.
The energy when they’re on stage is infectious. They feed off each other and also the crowd, and the crowd feeds off of them – always seeming to leave both sides hungry for more. I guess that’s what a great live band does.
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For the show at Borgata’s new Festival Park venue, the first surprise was the return of the K as part of the keyboard stand. This iconic throwback to the Day and Age era kinda had me hoping this wouldn’t be more or less the same Battle Born tour set list that they’ve been doing for nearly three years. At 20 songs long, it was a full set, with a few surprises, but was largely unchanged from the last time I saw them. Of course, this is a band that has four albums under their belts, and because they don’t want to disappoint more casual fans (as in non-Victims), they don’t want to leave out any of their hits.
Opening with Mr. Brightside, lights still on, the smile on Brandon Flowers’ face was apparent that he has missed his onstage brothers. The smile didn’t fade as they drove on into Spaceman, and after introducing the band as well as Ted “Named after the great Ted Williams” Sablay and Jake “The Snake” Blanton, they carried on to The Way It Was. Smile Like You Mean It led into Bling, followed by Human. A return to their first album was introduced by a chills-inducing heavy bass opening as Somebody Told Me reminded everyone why they became as big as they are.
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A cover of CCR’s Bad Moon Rising led into a surprise of their 2012 album Battle Born as they played the life out of The Rising Tide – a nice surprise. After Shot at the Night, For Reasons Unknown, and From Here On Out, things slowed down for Dustland Fairytale and another surprise, Be Still. Read My Mind and Runaways led into a bittersweet All These Things I’ve Done. Why bittersweet? When All These Things comes on, fans know it’s the last of their main set.
The last surprise of the night came with the first of their encores as they rolled into Uncle Jonny. We know that The Killers (almost) always include their very first album opener: Jenny Was a Friend of Mine – They don’t come all the way from Las Vegas and not play Jenny. When You Were Young was the show’s closer.
With the news report over, here’s the editorial portion of the review.
This band never disappoints – even in the rare instance that they’re off their game, they’re still on their game. For the show in Atlantic City at Borgata Festival Park they were undoubtedly on their game. Seeing them on stage together, it was as though it was where they wanted to be. The show in AC, before a crowd of 4500, was a warmup for the 70,000 strong crowd at Firefly. Of the 4500 people leaving Festival Park, I don’t think one of them was disappointed. I even caught one of the guys working security singing along to a few of their older hits.
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While I would have loved to have seen some of the lesser-played songs instead of the set they played, it’s only because I’ve seen them do these songs so often, and had never seen them perform prior to 2012 (huge mistake on my part). The Killers want people to leave their shows with a sense of satisfaction, so, playing their most popular songs is a given. Still, I would just love to hear Sam’s Town at least one more time, and quite honestly, I wish they’d drop the cover song they do (for the last 6 shows I’ve seen, they have always done Bad Moon Rising). With an arsenal of 4 full albums, they certainly have enough original material to play a full set without tossing in a cover version. (At least it’s not Shadowplay!)
Nothing would ever be able to stop me from making the effort to see this band perform. The 22 hour round-trip to the Jersey Shore was well worth it; they never disappoint. Ever. If I could, I’d be at a Killers show every night for the rest of my life.
Yes, a Killers show is one of my personal Sam’s Towns – if you don’t know what that means, do yourself a favor, and while waiting for their next tour, check out their live DVD – Live From the Royal Albert Hall. You’ll see why Victims, myself included, will travel all kinds of distances to see these guys perform.
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