Osheaga | All these beautiful things that we have done on the killers

Friday evening at Parc Jean-Drapeau, at the end of the first day of Osheaga, the Killers showed that they had soul and that contrary to what their song claims, they are also soldiers. Rock soldiers who are really not about to abdicate.

My Buzze phone. It’s Marissa: “Start with Mr. Brightside = genius ”. My essential colleague is right. But still, it had to be done. Is that Mr. Brightside is not only the best known song in Killers, by far. Mr. Brightside Was listened to more than 2 billion times on Spotify. Mr. Brightside is the Stairway to Heaven People around 40 years old.

Any other group, healthier, less whimsical, would have kept Mr. Brightside for the recall. But if the Killers are masters in something, it is in the art of giving everything, all the time. So why not start right away?

After playing Safety Dance From the legendary Montreal group of the 1980s Men Without Hats – Les Killers choose a song associated with the city where he is -, Brandon Flowers arrived on stage with the passion of a young striker in escaped. Sports colleagues would say that Brandon Flowers was hungry. Hunger like someone who hasn’t eaten for weeks. The eye of the tiger.

The singer struck his chest like Céline at the Oscars, drew gestures in the air in the manner of a conductor, was planted at the end of the scene with his little black leather boots, like on the edge of a precipice. Brandon Flowers is the spasms of Ian Curtis by Joy Division, but in the body of a young Christian pastor.

Springsteen school

Is Brandon Flowers the most breathtaking performer of his cohort of rock groups? If I hadn’t made a wish not to abuse hyperbolas, that’s what I would write. At 44, the singer is also more beautiful than ever.

How to understand that the members of the training refused to only the representatives of the media, including those of The presstake them in pictures? If I had a face like that of their leader, I would be happy to have the portrait was drawn all day long.

But in addition to his face, Brandon Flowers above all deserves to be celebrated because he is from the Springsteen school artists to the boutists for whom a spectacle is not one if they have not left everything on stage, and even a little more.

Several of the songs of the Killers also sound like those of a group that one day listened to the boss and concluded that his work was not sufficiently grandiloquent like that.

With the Killers, it is not less is more. With the Killers, more is more. A philosophy whose drummer Ronald Vannucci Jr., the only other original member present on Friday, is also a follower, he who was tapping all in front of him as if Keith Moon had reincarnated as an Indie Rock musician.

All our needs

“Good evening, I am Brandon Flowers, I will be your host for the evening,” said the singer from Las Vegas early, dressed in a complete turquoise on black satin shirt and matching pocket handkerchief. “Do not hesitate to ask us anything, because we work in the service industry. But all our needs would be met, without our having to come forward.

Brandon Flowers is a warm host that he was able to overcome two steep interruptions, while members of the public in front of the scene needed assistance-fortunately festivals and artists now intervene in these kinds of situations.

But to return to Mr. Brightside : If the Killers were able to allow themselves to sacrifice it in curtain raising, it is because they have lots of others, (almost) like this, in their catalog, of which Spaceman, Smile Like You Mean It et Human, Because, yes, Friday, we wondered if we are more humans or dancers (great philosophical question if there is one).

In the seventh song, it was already time to Somebody Told Mefirst success of the first Killers album, Hot Fusspublished a little over 20 years ago, in 2004. Around me, phones came out of pockets such as V-collar t-shirts from American Apparel stores at the same time. Heaven ain’t close in a place like thissings Brandon Flowers, while however, everyone was with angels.

Then Lucy Dacus, who performed a little earlier on one of the big stages, joined him for a duo around Read My Mind. The young thirties had in the face the smile of a girl who often danced to the sound of the Killers and who cannot be there.

Only a few songs remained, including All These Things That I Have Doneto the very fine, as well as with the precious help of the three choristers, and When You Were Youngjust before the recall. Brandon was again on the edge of the stage, almost in a vacuum, stretching his microphone at the crowd at the end of certain lines:

You sit there in your HEARTACHE!
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your OLD WAYS!

I tell you: Brandon Flowers may not look like Jesus, but he has all the attributes of a rock star as I imagined when I was young.