The band played a rousing rendition of their first single "Somebody Told Me," which featured Mark Stoermer's signature thumping bass, and then proceeded into an incindiery cover of Joy Division's "Shadowplay". From then on, it was mostly all well-known hits from the Killers' relatively small ouevre, with a few special surprises sprinkled in. Looking classy and clean cut as always in his three-piece suit, singer Brandon Flowers traversed the stage time and again while gesturing to the hungry crowd.
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Sell-outs or not, the Killers really know how to play up to a crowd - whether it's 700 people or 17,000.Ĭonsidering how this was such a random one-off performance, it was only fitting that the guys opened up with an obscure cut off of Sam's Town - the build-up track "For Reasons Unknown". From there on in, any reservations I had about this show were put to rest. After a forgettable half-hour warm-up performance from fellow Vegas-based band Halloween Town, the Killers went on at just over 10 PM in front of a packed and screaming fanclub-filled house.
Going in, I was still unsure about what to expect. In any event, I simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to see an arena-sized band play one of New York's most intimate and best-sounding venues. Let's just say the Killers hadn't exactly been a staple on my iPod since 2004. Furthermore, I was a little underwhelmed by Sam's Town - the band's follow-up to the admittedly brilliant breakout smash Hot Fuss. For one, tickets were unconventionally easy to obtain for a "secret show", and hadn't even sold out even days after they were made available.sketchy.
I was a bit of a skeptic going into the Killers' Highline Ballroom performance last night.
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