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X-clusive: The Killers Set Date For Abum Sessions

added 14 July 2005 at 11.04

Last weekend’s festivals may have been headlined by Green Day and the Foo Fighters, but it was The Killers that pulled the biggest crowds, with fans eager to hear (and even, it seems, illegally bootleg) some new material.

“We’ve been trying out a bunch of stuff but lately [including setlist mainstay ‘All The Pretty Faces’] we’ve been keeping it down to one or two songs,” Vannucci explained. “’Cause there’s always the thought of, if you play too many of the new songs now, it’s not gonna be exciting or fun for people to hear when it comes out. There’s no surprise there.

“We played one of our songs that time in Cleveland, this other song about cocaine. We played it once and now it’s on the Internet! It’s called ‘My Uncle Johnny Did Cocaine’.”

“We’ve never gone back to it,” Stoermer adds, “But I’m sure we might when we start to write and record. We only played it once and it went straight on the Internet.”

Following Kylie’s last minute cancellation, The Killers were top of the Eavis’ shopping list as replacement headliners. But when Xfm mentioned Glastonbury 2007, the pair explained they wanted to earn the top spot and hinted that they may already be in the frame for the next event.

“Maybe, we’ll see,” Vannucci says sheepishly. “It was nice to be offered a headlining spot but we’ve got one record and for a lot of people we’ve only been around for eight months. We don’t think it’s really deserving of us yet.”

“And maybe we want to earn it too, and not just get it by default,” Stoermer continues. “We’ve gotten flak before from people trying to say we made it over night, but no one knows about the two years we spent slumming it in a garage,” the drummer confirms.

Speaking about the band’s future plans, the duo confirmed that once they’ve seen through their live commitments, they’ll be starting on the next album, but only when they’re ready.

 “We continue touring over in Europe,” Stoermer explains, “Then we go over to Amsterdam to open for U2, then three or four of our own dates and then we go back to States for more touring all the way through September.”

“[We’ll start the new album] some time in November maybe,” Vannucci continues. “Just whenever we feel it’s right to start recording. We want it to come out relatively soon, we kind of like to keep things going. Whenever it’s ready really, but we’re shooting for November right now.

“’Hot Fuss’ was collections of demos really. We’d go to this guy’s house and record two or three songs and we didn’t spend that much time on them at all, nothing was more than two or three takes… So I think we’re looking forward to the possibility of spending a bit more time on things.”

“We really haven’t spent that much time in the studio,” Stoermer concludes, “So we really don’t know [how the new record might sound]. Maybe we’ll end up liking what we did before, or maybe we’ll come up with some more ideas in the studio. We’ll see how it goes I guess.”

 

 

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