{"id":99611,"date":"2019-06-30T01:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/30\/the-killers-at-glastonbury-2019-review-anthemic-headliners-triumph\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T01:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:43:53","slug":"the-killers-at-glastonbury-2019-review-anthemic-headliners-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=99611","title":{"rendered":"The Killers at Glastonbury 2019 review \u2013 anthemic headliners triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyramid stageBrandon Flowers and co \u2013 with a little help from the Pet Shop Boys, Johnny Marr and the pyrotechnics department \u2013 provide one of those special Glastonbury MomentsCatch up on Saturday highlights on our liveblogA band that obviously have nothing in common musically with Stormzy, the Killers nevertheless share a problem: before they play, a shadow hangs over their headline performance. One rumour circulating around the audience is that they were the third choice for the Saturday night headlining slot, drafted in after big name heritage artists declined to sign up. Whether that\u2019s true or not, something about Brandon Flowers\u2019 demeanour onstage, at least initially, suggests a man who isn\u2019t entirely sure how things are going to pan out. \u201cAt the end of this show, I don\u2019t want anyone to say \u2018They got away with it,\u2019\u201d he offers, early on in the band\u2019s set. \u201cI want people to look up to this stage and say: \u2018Those are the sons of bitches that did it.\u2019\u201dCertainly, you\u2019re stuck by the sense of a band who both understand the importance of a headlining slot \u2013 the Killers\u2019 2004 performance at the festival played a considerable part in their rise to success \u2013 and are determined to prove their worth. Indeed, if Flowers worked any harder to win over the crowd, he\u2019d be down among them smearing them with after-sun cream and asking if they want him to pop to a stall and get them some Rizlas. He asks them \u201cAre we on the same page?\u201d He turns everything into an act of audience participation, up to and including counting in a song. He pretends to be overcome with emotion during a lull in Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll, then slyly raises his eyebrows and beckons for more applause. As with Stormzy\u2019s set, from the opening moment, every song arrives strafed with lazers or pyrotechnics or confetti cannons. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jun\/30\/the-killers-at-glastonbury-2019-review\" target=\"_blank\">The Killers at Glastonbury 2019 review \u2013 anthemic headliners triumph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyramid stageBrandon Flowers and co \u2013 with a little help from the Pet Shop Boys, Johnny Marr and the pyrotechnics department \u2013 provide one of those special Glastonbury MomentsCatch up on Saturday highlights on our liveblogA band that obviously have nothing in common musically with Stormzy, the Killers nevertheless share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}