The Killers played two nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden over the weekend, with multiple surprise sets from guests. View footage and photos from the performances below.
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On night one (September 30), Johnny Marr – who has been supporting The Killers during their current US tour – was joined on stage by his Smiths bandmate Andy Rourke. Together they played tracks, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’.
On Saturday night (October 1), The Killers were joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen. The three-song cameo included ‘Dustland’, ‘Badlands’, and ‘Born To Run’. They were moreover joined by Springsteen’s bandmate Jake Clemons, saxophonist and nephew of the late and legendary E Street Wreath member Clarence Clemons. Check out photos of the moment below.
“Everybody gets a little nervous when their Boss shows up for work, right?” said frontman Brandon Flowers, surpassing Springsteen and Clemons joined the band. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed me and my friends have been sweating bullets all night considering the Boss is here.”
During their performance of ‘Dustland’, a moment in the set where the Vegas wreath typically ask the regulars to shine light from the cellphones saw Flowers tell Springsteen, “It is a very unusual circumstance for me tonight considering I get a lot of my light from you.
Not many present day groups have a "Mr. Brightside." Considerably less can whip it out in the initial five minutes of a show and keep on engaging a field for an additional hour and a half. And, surprisingly, less are the people who can stand their ground in a three-melody two part harmony with Bruce Springsteen as he radiates with fervor reporting their name to the group: "THE Executioners!
Everyone realizes God made Saturday evenings for rock 'n' roll," frontman Brandon Blossoms proclaimed close to the start of the band's set, the second of two sequential evenings at Madison Square Nursery. What's more, the Executioners followed through on that, taking New York City on a visit through its most noteworthy melodies from "Hot Fight" to "Strain Machine."
The group shouted along to "Someone Told Me" and "When You Were Youthful," influenced to and fro to the disco-touched "Took shots at the Evening" and "Human," and siphoned their clench hands at the Springsteen-esque "Wanderers" and "How It Was," which sound like outtakes from the "Destined to Run" period.
While it was clear enormous areas of the crowd were curious about the Las Vegas band's immensely underestimated 2020 trip "Collapsing the Illusion," the Executioners presented a defense for why they ought to be, opening the show with the hazardous "My Own Spirit's Admonition" and giving much-merited space to "Fire in Bone," "Passing on Breed" and "Wariness."
Halfway through the set, the band went acoustic for "Runaway Ponies," with Blossoms pronouncing that over the pandemic, the Executioners had turned into a nation band. Prior to playing the "Strain Machine" tune, Blossoms truly told the 20,000 city people in the crowd to "go get a brew to hear it.
Being enchanted by Blossoms' unbound good faith and enthusiasm is hard not. He sings each tune cheerfully, loosening up the last singalong chorale of "Wanderers" and afterward brazenly tucking Bill Shrinks' "Rest on Me" into "Read My Psyche." At one point in the show, he cited the "indestructible" Hellen Keller.
In some capacity, you need to become involved with the Executioners since, these days at any rate, it's elusive music as proudly anthemic with scarcely any incongruity. Indeed, even the band's silliest, most counter-intuitive verses ("We're torching the roadway horizon/On the rear of a tropical storm that began turning when you were youthful"; "In the event that you could see through the flag of the sun/At eternity like a dream arriving at down to you"), matched with desert-undulating guitar riffs, roll off Blossoms' tongue like rock 'n' roll declarations.
As the set wrapped up, a mindful crowd part could have detected a shock was all together, as it wasn't totally clear the way in which the band could top closers "Everything That I've Done" and "When You Were Youthful" with a reprise. Gracious, obviously, simply bring out Springsteen for "Barren wilderness," "Dustland" and "Destined to Run."
Me and my companions have all been breaking out in a cold sweat up here the entire evening, on the grounds that the Supervisor is here," Blossoms declared as he strolled back in front of an audience, scarcely ready to hold back his own fervor.
Prior to sliding into their Springsteen cooperation "Dustland," a reevaluation of the band's 2008 track "A Dustland Fantasy," Blossoms said, "This piece of the night is typically held for me to have individuals put their telephones up. What's more, I advise us to contemplate where your light comes from."
Then, at that point, going to Springsteen, Blossoms spouted, "It is an exceptionally surprising situation for me this evening since I get a ton of my light from you.
The Executioners and The Manager finished off the show on a splendid note with "Destined to Run," with Blossoms demanding Springsteen convey the euphoric last section: "The thruway's stuck with broken legends on a last-opportunity power drive!" Then, at that point, sharing the mouthpiece, both of them — in addition to the whole of Madison Square Nursery — belted out the last melody.