The Big Issue: How do you think the music landscape has changed since the last Killers record? Brandon Flowers: It’s changed a lot. The sexy side of rock’n’roll has been handed over to rap and hip-hop In fact, as you cast an eye at the rock’n’roll scene of 2017, we’d go so far as to say: hell, we need you, man. Flowers, 36, is still clearly reeling from the relief that floats in on the back of knowing: hey, you may have been gone five years (the band – he’s released solo records in the gap), but we still kind of like you. When we speak in a North London studio, it’s only been a handful of weeks since The Killers played a surprise show at Glastonbury and a sold-out Hyde Park gig within days of each other to promote new record, Wonderful Wonderful. You sense him toying with the personal, the musical, the political, the spiritual turning it between his palms, squinting for meaning. A man who clearly – without a drop or a puff as his giddy partner – regularly and carefully unpacks the contents of his brain. For while Brandon Flowers – frontman of The Killers – is a real-deal rockstar, he’s also rock’n’roll’s biggest enigma.Ī Mormon, a father, a husband, a traditionalist, a pelvis-thruster. But still, somehow, we’re shocked that he’s so freely, unselfconsciously, whipped off his trousers to change in the makeshift wardrobe area to our left. Though, to be fair, they are rather sensible pants.

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