The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers paid tribute to his parents as the band ended their six-night residency at The O2 in London on Thursday night (11.07.24).
The Killers closing their residency at The O2 in London
The 43-year-old singer reminisced about his childhood growing up surrounded by “dirt and sky” in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada, and thanked his mother Jean and father Terry for creating a home that allowed him to be “free from embarrassment and anxiety”.
Introducing the song ‘Pressure Machine’, Brandon said: “Out of the kitchen all you could see was dirt and sky. No backyard, no front yard, just dirt and sky. “It didn’t bother me that we didn’t have grass, I was six, I’d spray down the dirt with water from the hose and play in the mud for as long as you would let me, but I was in the minority. One night a neighbour left a dollar bill in our mailbox and attached to the dollar was a small note which read ‘here’s a small donation to you getting a garden’. I don’t remember when I learned about the note, it was when I was grown and out of the house. But I do remember the way it felt the day that pallets of soil showed up, the excitement of helping my father line up those sweet rolls of earth, one by one, side by side, the day my parents had saved up enough money to buy real honest to goodness green grass. That’s where I lived, in that innocence, that’s the place they built for me, I was completely free from embarrassment and the anxiety. We all do that for our children in our own way. But it’s experiences like these that pave the way for songs like ‘Pressure Machine’. ‘Pressure Machine’ is not a love song, it’s a life song.”
The Killers thrilled the crowd with a set packed with their greatest hits.
A silhouetted Brandon struck a pose as the curtains lifted for opening track ‘My Own Soul’s Warning’ revealing their diamond-shaped stage, casino-style carpet and elaborate lighting rig inspired by their Las Vegas background.
They followed up with ‘Human’, ‘Somebody Told Me’ and ‘Smile Like You Mean It’ which saw Brandon tease fans with a false start before playing the 2003 track’s famous riff on his K emblazoned keyboard.
At their gig on Wednesday night (10.07.24) The Killers had shown the goal that striker Ollie Watkins scored to send England into the Euro 2024 final and as Brandon implored the 18,000 fans in the arena to lend their voices to every song he reminded them that they should still be on…
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