27 at New York City’s Apollo Theater and streamed live on Johnson’s Facebook page and. And Flowers brought “Dying Breed” to a halt in order to call out a fan in the pit who had punched another, ordering that the offender be removed and not starting the song again until he was assured the attack victim was alright.Black Entrepreneurs Day, founded and organized by “Shark Tank” panelist and FUBU chief executive Daymond John, will be held Oct. He and guitarist Ted Sablay also gave Motown a musical shout-out with a bit of the Temptations’ “My Girl.įor “For Reasons Unknown,” Flowers brought a well-prepared fan from Grand Rapids named Scotty Rock on stage to play drums, with the frontman stropping on a bass while drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. You’d have been hard-pressed to find any complaints, though, as the group pounded through anthemic favorites such as “When We Were Young,” “Somebody Told Me” “Human,” “Read My Mind,” “Spaceman” and the singalong “All These Things I’ve Done,” with the charismatic Flowers ping-ponging around the stage, occasionally stopping to play at his mid-stage bank of keyboards. The group - which featured as many as eight musicians on stage behind Flowers - deftly balanced old favorites with recent material and offering a full-career sampling weighted, not surprisingly, in favor of its platinum-and-better first two albums and oddly playing just one track (“Cody”) from its latest release 2021’s “Pressure Machine” - with the new single, “Boy,” also in the mix. The Killers, meanwhile, didn’t waste any time getting to the Big Moments, opening the show with “My Own Soul’s Warning” and the first of three major confetti blasts into the general admission arena floor. There was indeed plenty to be had, and a needle drop at any point of the Killers show yielded a highlight - up to and including a, well, killer opening set by Johnny Marr, the former Smiths guitarist whose quartet lit up Little Caesars with his own material, including “Armatopia” and “Easy Money” and the Britpop history of his old band (“Panic,” “There is a Light That Never Goes Out,” “How Soon is Now?” and the “Manchester disco” of his other band Electronica’s “Getting Away With It.” Metro Detroit entertainment calendar Oct. “We’re gonna play like it’s our last Saturday night on Earth!” he promised and just about made good on that with a whiplash fervor and a musical mix that had one foot in 90s British New Wave and the other in the Americana arena rock of Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams (ok, he’s Canadian, but still…). #Facebook photo theater killer fullLittle Caesars was, in fact, nearly full the show, which Flowers also noted was the Killers’ last Saturday date in North America on its latest tour. It’s wild to have everyone grow with us.” (It was actually 2004, at the Shelter and then Saint Andrew’s Hall.) “The bars to clubs, theaters, Masonic lodges. “We’ve been coming to Detroit since probably 2003,” Flowers noted at the action-packed 23-song concert’s halfway point. That’s tough to top, but seven days later Brandon Flowers and his Las Vegas troupe still managed to deliver an abundantly eventful night, nearly two hours filled with energy, exuberance and high spirits in what was the Killers’ biggest show to date in the metro area. 8, at Little Caesars Arena the band was joined onstage by Bruce Springsteen for encores at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A week before the Killers’ concert Saturday night, Oct.
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