The Killers

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It had been about two years since I had seen a live concert, and this is an embarrassing admission when as a college student I had tickets to see some live show just about every other weekend. Thankfully the dry spell ended this weekend when I went to see The Killers, live, in Düsseldorf.

I hadn’t even planned on going, the tickets were given to me as a Christmas present from my boyfriends family, and I eagerly accepted them, as The Killers are one of my favourite bands. So this past Friday my host sister, her friend, and I packed into a car with some of The Killer’s CDs and drove to Ddorf. The show was great and the band sounded phenomenal. They honestly sounded better than the recordings found on their CDs. Not only did they play tracks from their new album, they played all their crowd pleasers, and I mean every last one of them. I don’t think their was a disappointed fan in the music hall.

Now that I have brought up the ‘music hall’ I have to state what was wrong with the night. I hated the venue! The concert was located at Philipshalle which is an indoor sports arena. The problem is that the building was designed for sporting games not concerts. The area where most of the concert goers must stand to watch, is on the big flat surface area where teams play each other. There was some stadium seating along the outskirts of the playing field, but because the concert was at one end of the hall those seats weren’t necessarily good either, and my ticket was a standing one.

Unfortunately, we didn’t arrive early enough to get a good standing spot, and were closer to the back of the hall. With thousands of people’s heads bobbing in front of me, all on one flat level, I didn’t see much of the band. I had to step on my tippy tows just to take a picture of Brandon Flowers, the lead singer. To be honest, about all I saw was the strobe lights, which happened to be quite colorful.

All in all, the concert exceeded my expectations, at least where the music was concerned. And on that note, I leave you with my favourite line from The Killers, Smile like you mean it.