If you've never seen The Killers live, you should probably kick yourself. In recent years The Killers have found themselves playing to insane audiences at Madison Square Gardens, US Wembley Stadium, UK and The Royal Albert Hall, UK. Along with an ever-growing list of countries to tour, the venues the band plays to are also expanding at an incredible rate. Fans of the band include megastars such as Jay-Z, who described the band’s MO as taking “what's old and mak it sound new again.'Īs their popularity continues to grow, The Killers have extended their worldwide tours to include countries such as Russia and China along with spots all over Europe and North America.

The band’s musical talent has been recognized with seven Grammy Award nominations, as well as multiple Brit Awards and NME Awards for their various albums and singles such as “Human” and “When We Were Young”. Brightside” hitting number 10 in the US charts. In the United States, The Killers’ debut album “Hot Fuss” went triple platinum with the single “Mr. Brightside” premiered on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show and consequently found the band a huge following.Īlbums “Hot Fuss”, “Sam's Town”, “Day & Age” and “Battle Born” have all reached number one in the UK charts shortly after their release. Keeping to this mentality, The Killers found their initial successes not within their home country of the United States but within the United Kingdom, where the song “Mr. The band’s first shows in Las Vegas found a loyal audience, but stuck out like a sore thumb from the metal and rap acts flooding the local scene. Their rock music is intense yet has a pop-inspired theatricality, which borrows as much from bands like Oasis and The Smiths as it does from artists such as David Bowie. Since day one The Killers have had a sound, which cannot be confined or compared to those around them.

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