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Speaker 1: Brandon Flowers, Good morning, good morning to you. Right now

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Speaker 1: you're in the land of the Long White Cloud, New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful part of the world. How's the two going great?

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Speaker 2: We've we've already got three gigs under our belt down here,

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Speaker 2: and man, my family was able to come with me,

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Speaker 2: and it is, you know, a beautiful part of the world.

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Speaker 2: And never thought that a kid from the desert in

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Speaker 2: the southwest of America wod ever come this far. So

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Speaker 2: it's always kind of a pinched me kind of a moment.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now we hear your christ Church. Just as you

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Speaker 1: were about to play your your final song, it was

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Speaker 1: a loud bang and the lights went out.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, it doesn't happen very often, but maybe you

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Speaker 2: know the miightoroct a little too hard. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what happened, but everything went out.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle those situations?

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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's just kind of becomes a waiting

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Speaker 2: game and you cross your fingers that everything's gonna fire

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Speaker 2: back up, and you know it. Within ten minutes we

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Speaker 2: were back out there and it was it was great,

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Speaker 2: ended up being a great finish.

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Speaker 1: I went on, I just love your debut album, Hot

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Speaker 1: Fuss one of the best albums of two thousand and four,

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Speaker 1: I write some way, Dave you a guitarist, felt a

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Speaker 1: ton of pressure to talk that album. But like, since then,

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Speaker 1: you've released what sixty der albums? If solid I have

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Speaker 1: a twenty eight million albums, so you do it a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a you know, a lot of the

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Speaker 2: bands that we looked up to and admired, they had

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Speaker 2: this arc to their career where they would grow and

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Speaker 2: you know, five or six records in they would have

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Speaker 2: this massive record and after a lot of evolution, and

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Speaker 2: none of them had such a huge statement on our

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Speaker 2: first album. And it wasn't something that I don't think

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Speaker 2: we were prepared for to be thrust into the limelight

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Speaker 2: like that. But I'm proud of us for how we've

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Speaker 2: handled it and how we've been able to keep our

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Speaker 2: fans and grow more fans along the way. And you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's kind of amazing.

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Speaker 1: With every new album, Brandon, does it get hotter to

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Speaker 1: c rice A set lists?

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Speaker 2: You know, we know what works well live and we

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Speaker 2: were we make a new record, you want to find

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Speaker 2: siblings to old songs, and you want to find new

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Speaker 2: moments that you can create that are going to be

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Speaker 2: something special for people and keep us on our toes

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Speaker 2: and you know, you find it you as you go.

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Speaker 2: And we've got about seventy gigs under our belt this

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Speaker 2: tour and we've we've found some nice moments and it's

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Speaker 2: always lucky.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your congratulations on you late a single boy. It's

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Speaker 1: it's such a great song. Is it a song to

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Speaker 1: yourself as a boy or see your own songs? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? It recently had moved back to Utah when we

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Speaker 2: wrote the song, and that's where I spent my formative

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Speaker 2: years and and I have three sons myself now and

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Speaker 2: they're all kind of right in the middle of that,

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Speaker 2: and so it was a little bit of advice to

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Speaker 2: myself and a little bit of advice to them. And

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Speaker 2: it's kind of amazing when when you can write a

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Speaker 2: song like that that transcends, you know, just your own experience.

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Speaker 2: And we love Boy. We're really proud of that one.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk on stage style, Brandon. You're a you're a

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Speaker 1: well dressed man. You like to rock a suit, and

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Speaker 1: I have to ask just how many how many suits

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Speaker 1: do you own?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I have

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Speaker 2: a lot but uh, you know, we got we come

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Speaker 2: from Las Vegas. We we have a duty yep, to deliver.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so I think that it's part of my

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Speaker 2: definitely part of my DNA and the show biz part

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Speaker 2: of me.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel more comfortable wearing a suit on stage?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it's it's it's there's something ritualistic

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Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, and it's you know, I'm becoming the

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Speaker 2: I'm becoming the man that sings these songs and I

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Speaker 2: kind of like getting prepared like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about the band's name. Is it true?

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Speaker 1: It's from a logo on the bass drama of a

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Speaker 1: fictitious band and that music video for a song from

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Speaker 1: New Order.

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Speaker 2: That's true. Absolutely. We're big New Order fans, and so

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Speaker 2: Crystal that single, that video it came out like two

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Speaker 2: thousand or two thousand and one, right when we were forming. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and we saw it and you know, we hadn't we

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Speaker 2: didn't have a great name yet, and that we just

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Speaker 2: took it and it's it's stuck and and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: we don't mind being tied to New Order in that way.

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Speaker 2: We're big fans. We just thought that it was it

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Speaker 2: was perfect we were surprised that nobody had taken it,

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Speaker 2: and I think it was just great that it was

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Speaker 2: to be such fans of New Order and be able

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Speaker 2: to tire ourself to them, whether they liked it or not.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now, Brandon, you guys kicked off your Korea in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, that's where it all began. Would you ever

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Speaker 1: consider a residency to you know, finish up where you started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely see it as a possibility. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's I mean, it used to be seen very

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Speaker 2: sort of frowned upon, or Las Vegas was seen as

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Speaker 2: a place where showmen and magicians and comedians came to die.

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Speaker 2: But it's you know, it's changed so much and become

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Speaker 2: kind of a hot spot for residency, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we're we'd be open to it.

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Speaker 1: Mister Bryne saw Now, this song has currently spent with

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Speaker 1: three hundred and forty two weeks on the UK chot.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge child Rickle, What is it do you

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Speaker 1: think about that song that resonates with people? To say

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Speaker 1: a bunch?

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people identify with it, you know,

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Speaker 2: with their with their early experiences in love and you know, betrayal,

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Speaker 2: but It's very anthemic, and there's just something about the

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Speaker 2: you know, the marriage of the guitar and the way

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Speaker 2: that I'm singing and the place that I'm singing from

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Speaker 2: that that is just transcendent and it's not something that

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Speaker 2: that I can really put my finger on.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that mister Bryn Sawe this song is

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Speaker 1: nearly twenty years old and it's still on the UK charts,

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Speaker 1: it just shows what a time this classic it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's not something that we could have

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Speaker 2: foreseen when we wrote it and unbelievable to be a

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Speaker 2: part of it.

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Speaker 1: Brandon, you guys need some fantastic covers. One of my

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Speaker 1: favorites in the Whole of the Moon by the water Boys.

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Speaker 1: Your voice really suits that song. Have you thought about

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Speaker 1: maybe doing an album made up entirely of eighties songs? Uh?

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Speaker 2: I mean, we definitely are have done a lot of

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Speaker 2: eighties covers. We haven't thought about doing a whole album

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Speaker 2: of babies covers, but you never know, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was definitely a great era for singles,

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Speaker 2: and I think it sort of gets a bad rap

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Speaker 2: because of the fashion maybe, but if you if you

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Speaker 2: really look at the songs that were that were coming out.

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Speaker 2: It was just an incredible time for sure.

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Speaker 1: Can we expect any surprise covers that you will show

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night here in Perth.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe we need to whip something up.

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Speaker 2: We think about it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Brandon, we can't wait to see the band from

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Speaker 1: sin City in our city Tuesday night. All right, I

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Speaker 1: see Brandon Flows from the Killers. Thanks it til can

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Speaker 1: do us. It's been a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you,