Brandon Flowers at 3Olympia review: A master of arena rock still excited by his hits

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Brandon Flowers3Olympia Theatre, Dublin★★★★★Brandon Flowers is in Dublin to perform material from his country-rock themed new album Thrasher – but two-thirds of the way through this riotous concert that plan is chucked out the window and he goes for broke with a murderously enjoyable Killers greatest hits set. Experienced in the comparatively intimate environs of The Olympia, it’s a thrill to see a master of arena rock still so excited by his own hits.

Flowers rips through the Springsteen-esque two-hander of When You Were Young and Read My Mind and then charges, at full pelt, into the great terrace anthem of the 21st century, Mr Brightside. How can he not be bored with this song by now?

But somehow he is not, as, with one foot on the edge of the stage, he leads the audience through that surging verse and then headlong into a chorus that remains almost supernaturally…

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