Watch The Killers cowl Yeah Yeah Yeah’s ‘Maps’ at Gov Ball 2024
The Killers have lined the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ hit observe ‘Maps’ throughout their headlining set of Governors Ball 2024.
Brandon Flowers and co closed out the second evening of the NYC weekend fest at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Saturday (June 8). They kicked off their set with classics akin to ‘Any individual Instructed Me’, ‘Spaceman’, ‘Smile Like You Imply It’ and ‘For Causes Unknown’.
In direction of the top of the eleventh music of the evening – ‘Runaways’ – the band carried out a stripped-back rendition of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2003 hit music ‘Maps’.
Guitarist Ted Sablay stood on a platform on stage proper and commenced enjoying the guitar half to the pre-chorus with Flowers becoming a member of him singing “Wait, they don’t love you want I like you / Maps / Wait, they don’t love you want I like you.”
@thekillers protecting NYC indie legends @YYYs hit ‘Maps’ at @GovBallNYC pic.twitter.com/y8PF4vpqfZ
— NME (@NME) June 9, 2024
This isn’t the primary time they pay homage to a NYC iconic band at Gov Ball. Throughout their slot on the competition again in 2016, they lined Interpol‘s ‘Flip On The Vibrant Lights’ observe ‘Impediment 1’.
Elsewhere, The Killers not too long ago performed ‘Andy, You’re A Star’ for the primary time in seven years at their shock intimate gig in New York Metropolis.
The indie rock icons performed the music from their seminal LP ‘Sizzling Fuss’ at their live performance on the 500-capacity Bowery Ballroom, marking the primary time it was performed since 2018. The present additionally happened the identical day as ‘Sizzling Fuss’s twentieth anniversary.
The Killers are set to kick off their ‘Insurgent Diamonds’ UK and Eire tour subsequent week. The tour may also see the band cease off at London’s O2 Area for a whopping six dates. Take a look at all dates under and get any remaining tickets right here:
The Killers 2024 ‘Insurgent Diamonds’ UK and Eire tour dates are:
JUNE
12 – Dublin, 3Arena
14 – Dublin, 3Arena
15 – Dublin, 3Arena
18 – Manchester, Co-Op Dwell
19 – Manchester, Co-Op Dwell
21 – Manchester, Co-Op Dwell
22 – Manchester, Co-Op Dwell
25 – Glasgow, Ovo Hydro
26 – Glasgow, Ovo Hydro
27 – Glasgow, Ovo Hydro
JULY
4 – London, The O2
5 – London, The O2
7 – London, The O2
8 – London, The O2
10 – London, The O2
11 – London, The O2
NME spoke to Flowers final 12 months, with Flowers sharing the information of his upcoming solo album. “I’m making a solo report proper now! I nearly had it wrapped up,” he stated. “The objective has at all times been to get all 4 authentic members to take possession and be pleased with what we’re doing, but it surely’s so tough with all 4 of us residing in several cities. It’s not unattainable. It’s bizarre to be speaking to you about it, however I’d undoubtedly like to do this.”
He additionally mirrored on the legacy of ‘Sizzling Fuss’ twenty years on, telling us: “[The Killers] have been at all times little completely different from the opposite Vegas bands again then as a result of I observed that there was this competitors and rivalry between native bands. I wasn’t eager about them – I used to be eager about The White Stripes, The Strokes, and Oasis. I didn’t enable myself to get to U2 simply but, however I requested myself, ‘What’s it that these bands are doing and why are they not nonetheless of their hometown?’ That’s what set us aside fairly early on.
“We have been completely different, and we have been formidable. Ambition may be seen as an unsightly factor to some individuals but it surely has served us properly. We have been in a position to persevere and it’s sort of unbelievable.”
In a four-star overview of their headlining set at Studying Pageant 2023, NME shared: “It’s a becoming showstopper of showmanship to a set that might run as a Vegas residency for the remainder of time, however for tonight The Killers have been very a lot ours. The ticker-tape and added pomp was the cherry on prime, however typically all you want is a bit little bit of ‘Glamorous Indie Rock And Roll’.”
In different information, ‘Mr Brightside’ has overtaken Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ to smash an enormous UK singles report.