More Killers and Brandon dates

Sorry for the lack of updates recently.

There's been a lot of news lately and amongst it, three new dates to be excited about.

Firstly, Brandon Flowers is playing The Eden Sessions at The Eden Project in Cornwall on 12th July.  Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday 14th March at 6pm, Inside Track members can buy them now. More details can be found at their website.


Brandon has also been announced for Oxegen festival in Ireland on 9th July.  Tickets are already on sale and you can buy them at their website.

Finally, and most excitingly, The Killers have announced a warm up show in Chile, prior to their Lolapolooza date on 31st March at Teatro LaCupula, Santiago, Chile. Members of the Victims should check their emails or the website as soon as possible for details of pre-sale opportunities.  Details of the venue are here.

Tommy Marth recently tweeted that this would be an exciting time for Killers' fans. Let's hope for some more news soon.

Ronnie Talks to 6Music

Ronnie Vannucci recently spoke to 6Music about his solo work, recording in England and a little about The Killers.  You can read, and listen to the interview here.

Ronnie at the NME Awards

Ronnie will be a guest at the NME Awards taking place this evening. You can keep an eye out here for news and updates and watch a broadcast of the show on Channel 4 on Saturday as part of T4 at 11:25am and again on Saturday evening at 11:20pm.

More Brandon Shows Announced

After a few rumours, some new dates have appeared on The Killers Official website for shows in Mexico, California and Las Vegas.  It doesn't specify on the site whether these are Brandon only dates, or The Killers dates, however, as they centre around Brandon's Coachella date, we believe the dates are Brandon only. The dates are:

10 April - Teatro Estudio Cavaret, Zapopan Mexico
11 April - Vive Cuervo Salon, Mexico City, Mexico
14 April - House of Blues, San Diego, California
16 April - House of Blues, Las Vegas, Nevada

The dates don't appear on any of the official websites for the venues as yet and tickets don't appear to be on sale. More news as we hear it.

Interview with Stuart Price

Stuart Price is up for a BRIT Award for Best Producer and This is London have an interview with him (brief mention of The Killers and Brandon) here.

The Killers to Play Lollapalooza Chile

Lollapalooza Chile have announced their line up for this year's festival and The Killers are headling. With this, the Top of the Mountain concert, and Brandon playing Coachella it looks like we may be heading for a string of festival dates this summer.  Here's hoping.

Check out the full line up here

Ronnie Vanucci - Legends of Rock Party

Ronnie Vanucci will take his place alongside fellow Legends of Rock for the Access Film Music Showcase Launch Party tomorrow night (20th January 2011),at the House of Blues Foundation Room, Park City, Utah. The full party kicks off at 7pm, Legends ofRock is at 9pm and you can buy tickets here.

Full details can be found here.

Live at RAH Review

I found this in my wanderings around the internet searching for Killers goodness.  A fun review of Live at the Royal Albert Hall blogged as the writer was watching it. Here it is, read and enjoy.

The Killers Top of The Mountain Concert

The Killers will officially be back in April when they will be playing the Top of The Mountain Concert in Austria on 30th April 2011.

The concert is an annual festivity celebrating the end of the Ski season in Ischgl, Austria. The concert is free, however, you need a Silver lift pass to gain access to the concert which costs 75Euros.

There are more details here.

(The part announcing The Killers is in German, but most of the site is in English for details of accomodation and travel)

Just to add, new additional confirmation by Hermia on TKC, the details are now up on The Road section.

Here

Duffy Loves Brandon Flowers

In a recent interview with The Herald Sun, Duffy sang Brandon Flowers' praises like the best Victim among us. Asked what gigs she had seen, she responded:

OK. This is in order: The Strokes, Guns 'N Roses, Coldplay and the Killers.
Oh and Al Green and Candi Staton.
The most impressive was the Killers. Brandon Flowers is a showman like I've never, ever experienced.
He was like a young Michael Jackson.
He had this star quality. He has this Frank Sinatra elegance.
I never once wondered what he'd had for lunch or what his mum was called or if he was sweaty or tired.
I didn't think of him as a human, pardon the pun. I wanted that. We're in a recession across the globe.
People need something bright and light and fun in their life.

Couldn't agree more, welcome to the Victims, Duffy.

You can read the whole article here

Killers article on Visionary Artistry Mag

Visionary Artistry Mag have an article on The Killers, there's nothing new there, a sample of old Brandon quotes and some pretty pictures, but I thought it would help tide us over this barren period.  Read it here.

Tweet and Watch Live at the Royal Albert Hall

The date has been set for the Tweet and Watch Live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Come and join us at 22:00 (GMT) on 28th December 2010.

The idea is that we all watch Live at the Royal Albert Hall at the same time, in our own homes, at a friend's house, wherever you may be, and tweet about it. Use the hashtag #tweetRAH in your tweets and then everyone participating can read all the tweets, even if they don't follow everyone involved.

Join the Facebook event and invite all your friends, the more people involved, the merrier.

Here are the times across a few different time zones. If yours is not listed let us know and we will find out for you.

GMT 10pm
CET -11pm
US (Eastern) - 5pm
US (Pacific) - 2pm
Sydney - 9am

We'll be keeping you updated on our Twitter @branfluenced and also on the Facebook Group, so follow us and join the group to make sure you don't miss out.

NME Awards 2011

Nominations are now open for the NME Awards 2011, you can nominate your favourites here, and when you're done submitting Brandon Flowers for absolutely everything, you can enter a competition to attend the show.

The winning nominees will be announced in January 2011 when the next round of voting will begin.

Watch & Tweet Live at RAH

To keep us all going now that Brandon's tour is over, we came up with the idea of a Watch and Tweet,  Live at the Royal Albert Hall.  What is a Watch and Tweet you say.  Well the basic idea is, we pick a date and time, grab our DVD's and Blu Rays all press play on the count of three. Then we sit back, watch the show and tweet about it using a pre-determined hashtag so we can follow everyone's tweets (and aren't interupted by other tweets in the timeline.

All we need to do now is set a date and time. I've whittled it down to two possible dates.

Sunday 19th December or Tuesday 28th December. The time will be 22:00 GMT, which should mean that wherever you are in the world, you don't have to be up at an really unsocial hours to join in.

There is a poll on the right there ------->>>>

Vote and we will set a date!

KIllers To Reconvene in May

The Globe and Mail have a review of Brandon's Tornoto show which includes a brief interview conducted on his tour bus after soundcheck.  As well as a lovely shout out to his "devoted" fans, he confirms:

“...but we’re going to reconvene in May, it looks like, to get together and start writing.”

Brandon also commented that Ronnie was working on his new record right now.

You can read it here.

BOOTS VIDEO IS HERE

The video for Boots has finally made it onto the Starbucks Website. Each view will generate a 5cent donation to RED's Global Fund to fight AIDS, so click away and let's raise some money for a great cause. Once you have watched the video, share it with your friends using the "Tweet" and "FB Share" buttons.

http://www.starbucks.com/share#/the-killers

In a press release fromThe Killers yesterday, Brandon said:

"Our Christmas single with (RED) is one of our traditions as a band. We didn’t want to let it fall by the wayside just because we’re on hiatus; this cause is too important. (RED) is an organization that we’re proud to help support, and we’re thrilled that Starbucks will be hosting our video for charity this year as well. "

You can also read a statement from RED about the song and video here.

BOOTS VIDEO - Official Release

As confirmed on their official website, The Killers' fifth Christmas single in aid of the charity RED is now available to buy as a download from iTunes, Amazon and other outlets.

The video will be abailable to watch tomorrow from http://www.starbucks.com/share, Starbucks will donate 5 cents to the Global Fund for every view it receives.

The video should be available to buy in a couple of weeks.

Here are some links to purchase

US

iTunes
amazon
Newbury Comics

UK
itunes
Play

Boots Video

Watch the video for Boots here. Lovely video, featuring a lot of Vegas and a little Brandon, but none of the other guys.

BOOTS IS HERE

Boots is now available to download in the UK. Those who have pre-ordered from Play, their system is down for maintenance at the moment, but iTunes is working fine and you can buy it here.

If you are thinking of buying Boots multiple times, this is very honourable of you. Please either buy your extra copies as a gift to someone, or buy from different outlets. Buy the same item mutiple tikes, certainly from iTunes, raises an alert and the song may be banned from a chart position.

Boots Downloads (UK & US) and Exclusive CD Single

For UK fans, Boots is now available to pre-order as a download from Play

US fans can pre-order the download at amazon.com and also an exclusive CD Single at Newbury Comics