I imagine we'll get press releases about this stuff either later today or tomorrow, but just received publicist notes that the Killers are slated to play the Fox Theatre on Monday, May 4, and the Ting-Tings are slated for the Duck Room on Friday, April 3. Let's hope the Killers bring an opening act as cool as the one it has on this leg (M83 has been opening for them now) -- and that the Ting-Tings show goes better than its Bluebird appearance last August.
[Update, 3 p.m. Friday: The Killers show
As always, chime in if I forgot something. For the record: It's nearly 1 a.m. in the morning when I'm working on this -- something that happens often -- and so if I forget to list a show, it's not out of malice, but because of crushing fatigue. Like I've said before.
Friday, May 1*Firedog (CD release)/Dave Grelle, Off Broadway*Sons of Black Mass/Lollipop Factory/Logos, Firebird*Howie Day, Duck Room*Bawn in the Mash, Gramophone*The Hot Liquors, Lemmons*Larry Garner Band, BB's Jazz, Blue
The important thing to remember about the Killers is that the band hails from Las Vegas, the city where the concept of time falls prey to glitz, fantasy and excess -- and the place that built a replica of great cities such as Paris and New York, thus manufacturing its own reality to fit its concept of entertainment.
You see, this is exactly how to approach seeing the Killers in concert. Last night at a sold-out Fabulous Fox Theatre, the quartet (plus a few auxiliary musicians, includin
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