3/24/2023 0 Comments The killers these things done time![]() ![]() She and a friend had bought the cheapest tickets in the backest of back rows. “The Killers,” Katie said, seemingly dumbfounded we’d needed to ask. Some months earlier my second daughter had announced she was off to her first concert and had bought tickets to Rod Laver Arena (goodness knows where she got the money Judith, I suspect). This time at home because we were on drop off, not pick-up. Unphased by meeting a daggy dad they explode with delight about their night: their first rock concert had delivered all they had hoped.įrom this night The Killers, all the way from Las Vegas, were part of the family, sort of distant cousins who led our team sing-alongs while we washed the dishes, made ready for a big night out or drove home from a significant hockey victory. ![]() They glow with self-satisfaction and the euphoria of having reached one of life’s key milestones. Laura and Ellie emerge from the avalanche of bodies streaming down Spencer Street. That, and its great motoring singalong: I got soul, but I’m not a soldier … The girls’ favoured track is Mr Brightside but I get more from the nuanced All These Things That I’ve Done, possibly because I’m the only male in the family, and All These Things seems to be about a boy growing up, seeking acknowledgement that he’s matured. The Killers debut album Hot Fuss appealed to us all: Judith and myself, Laura and her two younger sisters. We’d grown to know and like The Killers around our place in recent months, although I struggled to balance the soaring vocals, clean sounds and thoughtful lyrics with the band’s blunt, evil name. “The Killers,” Laura replies, enraptured. “Er, OK … who are you seeing?” her mother and I enquire. While millions have been to concerts at Festival Hall and millions have arrived home safely and happily we parents know there’s potential for danger in the dark depths of Dudley St. The night has been important for all of us, from the time several months earlier when Laura announced simply, “Ellie and I have bought tickets to a concert.” My oldest daughter has been to her first real rock concert and I’m collecting her at an agreed point, respectfully three or four blocks away. ![]() It’s late one night in February 2007 and I’m waiting on a draughty corner in West Melbourne anxiously studying a sea of shining faces coming towards me, looking for one in particular.Ī glance around the shadows reveals I’m not the only parent waiting to collect a teenager after this concert at the historic but tired mausoleum that is Festival Hall. Concert venues in Melbourne 2007, 2009, 2013 ![]()
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