The Killers bass drummed their way into the early afternoon Red Marquee crowd, hitting them with an energetic vibe with "On Top" as the bass rumbled and keyboards squelched. Brandon Flowers presents a cool and comfortably loose performance, confident with the bands' creation, but not too arrogant. Flowers' songs tell of love, breakups and cars with a unpredictablility that keeps you guessing where he stands on it all, in anger, in bemusement or in love. Hopefully he's jus taking the piss out of all of us.
 
And unless there's an earnestness in his singing "She plays the drums, I'm on tambourine... that's Indie rock and roll for me," then should we really worry when he asks us to "face it your part of a scene?" "Mr. Brightside" is another slippery one, a beating anthem weaving a psycho story of jealousy; real, imagined, crippling or exciting you're never sure.

 

A lead solo breaks into the middle of "All These Things I've done", propelling a stompin' march: "I've got soul, but I am not a soldier," or did it start "I got sober, but I am not a soldier" or was it "I got sold, but I am not a soldier". Whichever, it all works, and primes the audience for the finale.
 
For the last they have saved their demonic hit of twisted romance "Somebody Told Me", bringing the crowd to a final frenzy to leave the set on. Like Blur's "Girls and Boys", it's subversively easy to dance while Flowers doubts the gender of last year's girlfriend,

Well somebody told me
You have a boyfriend
Who looks like a girlfriend
That I had in February last year...

 

The Killers are slick no doubt and their big songs jam it out with Flowers presiding from his casually loud keyboards. When they amp up the rest they'll have it all. Cause whether they're mocking themselves, us or some completely other universe doesn't matter when they hit you with the goods.