But even after that extraordinary opening salvo, culminating with the often Elvis-channelling Flowers tagging All These Things That I’ve Done with a glorious blast of Presley’s Burning Love, the second half of the album sounds fantastic, too. Flowers punctuates the run-through with stories from the band’s early days, and it is adorable.
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By now, it’s a total love-in – Sablay and Blanton join in for this exuberant celebration of Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll, as the song puts it, as do the touring line-up’s three powerhouse female backing singers – but a leaner, post-Fuss extended encore of hits is still a little flawed.
As with the previous night, This Is Your Life presumably gets on the set list because there’s a great bit you can wave your hands to, and, much as we love Runaways, few of us know all the words, so please stop handing over that first verse to us, Brandon.
But still, if in a couple of years, in this way, the Killers give the 20th-anniversary treatment to the Sam’s Town album (third track: When You Were Young, almighty on both nights of this tour), you’d be a fool to miss it.
