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Broadcast: 21/02/05
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They've recently enjoyed a Number 1 album, clocked up a string of hit singles, been nominated for Brits and Grammies and walked away with Best International Newcomers at last week's NME awards. Las Vegas' finest, The Killers, have at last lived up to their own press and can now accurately refer to themselves as Glamorous Indie Rock N Roll Stars. They've got soul but are they soldiers? Find out over the next half hour as we hit the road with them on this month's NME tour.
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"England has opened it's arms to us. It's very surreal, I can't believe it." |
Ronnie Vannucci - The Killers
"I feel very grateful, England has opened its arms to us. It's very surreal, I can't believe it. I have a lot of confidence about our songs, don't get me wrong, but for it to be realised and be here. I mean it's just a dream come true."
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Ross McGintey - Fan
"The Killers are amazing, they've got everything about them. The lead singer has everything a front man of a band needs to have. He's there and he's like 'Look at me!' and he's got soul but he's not a soldier, he's there and everybody knows who he is."
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"...once we signed to Lizard King that would get the ball rolling." |
Brandon Flowers - The Killers
"It's exciting. It's just grown and grown and grown. Really after the last couple of months, it's picked up. We'd seen what had happened with the White Stripes and The Strokes and other American bands that started over here. We didn't try to do that but it worked for us as well and we knew that once we signed to Lizard King that would get the ball rolling."
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Ben Durling - Lizard King
"I guess I signed the band originally. The first two songs I heard were 'Mr Brightside' and 'Somebody Told Me' and they weren't to dissimilar to what's on the record so I thought it was a pretty obvious thing at the time. They and Franz Ferdinand have pioneered a slightly more artistic, angular side of the 80s. I thought at the time that The Killers were going to move into something that was going to happen, they were going to be at the front of it. Now everywhere you look there's bands pulling their influences from similar places."
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