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The Colosseum astatine Caesars Palace was built to withstand the roof-raising powerfulness of Celine Dion and different acclaimed performers successful its time. But weathering a unrecorded rendition of “Mr. Brightside” is different substance entirely.
Under sprays of confetti and glitzy signage shaped successful the representation of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, The Killers barreled done the astir fashionable Hot Fuss track, commemorating nighttime 2 of its sold-out Strip residency, a historical juncture for the Vegas-bred set that started arsenic a radical of unknowns successful 2001.
“I came present from a quiescent municipality successful Utah erstwhile I was conscionable 16 years old. I had large dreams moving arsenic a busboy close present astatine Caesars Palace, and I stake my beingness connected 3 men who I hardly knew,” said frontman Brandon Flowers. “Some radical travel to Vegas and they suffer everything, that’s conscionable the mode it goes. But fto contiguous service arsenic a reminder—sometimes it goes the different way, too.”
For the archetypal clip successful years, fans saw The Killers’ archetypal halfway 4 reunite, aft guitarist Dave Keuning and bassist Mark Stoermer stepped distant from their touring posts successful 2016 and 2017. Dusting disconnected the iconic debut that built a runway for their success, The Killers emerged arsenic spirited arsenic erstwhile they were young. Flowers refused to enactment still, exhibiting the agility of a antheral touched by the beatified ghosts of Vegas showmen who came before. He hopped up connected a raised signifier platform, a pulpit for his fiery, if not frenzied, show of “Somebody Told Me” and “All These Things That I’ve Done.”
Fans responded successful kind, parroting backmost the bridge, astir outmatching the grandiose gospel vocals assigned to the unrecorded trio onstage. The remainder of the set appeared conscionable arsenic alight, particularly Keuning, who paced the level with his guitar, relishing successful his rockstar epoch with nimbly executed solos and a grin plastered crossed his face.
Those performances, portion great, besides felt strangely siloed. Flowers attempted to drum up immoderate camaraderie by telling stories astir the band, but their disjointment came disconnected glaringly evident successful definite scenarios. Timing connected “All These Things,” for instance, sounded excessively sped up, with Flowers shouting done his lyrics alternatively of really singing them. It’s precise imaginable the set mightiness inactive beryllium breaking the ice, having not performed arsenic a portion successful a while. They seemed to autumn successful enactment connected moodier cuts similar “Andy, You’re a Star” and “Midnight Show,” wherever Flowers’ afloat timber noticeably shined, carrying america into the second parts of Hot Fuss and the epic, catalog-spanning encore finale.
“You consciousness that?” Flowers asked, arsenic the country began to rumble with applause.
The set launched into Sam’s Town favorite “Read My Mind,” thrusting the assemblage into a perpetual sing-along that didn’t afloat fto up until “Dustland Fairytale,” a way Flowers prefaced with a communicative astir his precocious mother.
“She's gone present but she made definite to springiness maine capable airy to get maine wherever I needed to go,” helium said, earlier joining Keuning for a side-by-side finale of the song, tapering it disconnected nether a azygous spotlight.
Grounded by the intimacy of those moments, The Killers carried connected similar a pulverization keg, much contiguous and live than ever connected the amusement closer, “When You Were Young.”
By the extremity of it, Flowers looked spent, thorax heaving, his Nevada authorities pendant dangling. And with 1 last comment, the frontman gazed up into the assemblage and proclaimed, “When we were young, we dreamed astir this.”
The Killers August 21, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 & September 1, 8 p.m., the Colosseum, ticketmaster.com.
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