who cares!

great band names rarely live up to great music these days.

have they sold a jingle to some mobile company yet?

probably.

Yeah, Somebody Told Me is class.

Looks like Oasis had something to do with the existence of this band

From Killers Bio:

It was late 2002. Brandon Flowers (yes, it is his real name) had been dumped by his one previous group, a synth-pop outfit named Blush Response, when he refused to move with the rest of the band to L.A. Cruelly ditched, but inspired by seeing Oasis play (incredibly, the Brothers Grim had made it all the way to Vegas in one piece) he saw that his life needed more guitars. When he clocked Dave Keuning’s small ad in a local paper naming that band as an influence – and what with Oasis not exactly factoring in the pasty Vegas music scene – he took it as fate that they should be together. “He was the only person to reply to my ad who wasn’t a complete freak”, remembers Dave, fondly. “He came over with his keyboard and we started going through song ideas straight away. I had the verse to “Mr Brightside” and he went away and wrote the chorus. That was the first song we wrote together and remains the only song that we’ve played at every single Killers show”.

Those Gallaghers...an inspiration to us all
Quite into the Killers at the mo. Love Mr Brightside. Somebody told me (haha pardon the pun!) the band were gay? anyone know if this is true? nothing against it but Brandon is very gorgeous so it would be a bit upsetting to find out it is true.