How did the Brandon Flowers collaboration come about?
A mutual friend, [superstar producer] Stuart Price, was doing a remix of one of our songs and I bumped into Brandon at a Killers gig. He said ‘Stuart’s played me this track and I think it’s great and can’t stop singing it’. I love The Killers and I love his voice, so he contributed some vocals after we’d finished the track and it sounds great. The unfortunate thing is that for some legal reason something to do with record company and management I’m not sure if it’s going to see the light of day. It’s a real shame. You wrote on MySpace that you tossed a coin with Bono to decide whose band should move their album release date. Is that true? Not really. U2’s album was definitely a factor in us moving. We left a message for him saying ‘We’re moving to 9 March, is that all right?’ He didn’t get back to us so we presumed it was fine. I think they would have struggled if we’d released our album on the same day. Is this album back to basics – back to the sound you had when you first broke thro
