Brandon Flowers talked about when The Killers first met Noel Gallagher in occasion of the 2005 NME Tour.
The American singer joined Zane Lowe on his Apple Music Radio Show in occasion fo their greatest hits album.
While on the show, Brandon Flowers recounted the time in which he met the Noel Gallagher while on the NME Tour in 2005.
Zane Lowe brought up the moment in which The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. joined the band, saying that great drummers are the difference between great songs and careers.
“It’s true. That’s something I was not aware of. I was green when we first started, I was only 20 years old I was using a fake ID to play in the bars that we were playing in and I did not quite appreciate what everybody needed to bring to the table for us to be a success and for to us to have staying power.”
Flowers then went on saying that someone who knew the importance of a great drummer was “someone like Noel Gallagher” and shared the moment when he met him.
“We were doing the NME tour and we were playing at Brixton Academy or something and we heard that Noel’s gonna come to show, he was probably there to see Franz Ferdinand or Kaiser or somebody but he’s coming and after the gig, we finish and here he comes, you know, This is one of my heroes, he walks in the door and I am just so excited.”.
“He walks straight past me, straight to Vannucci and it was just, I was like oh shit, we better keep an eye on what Oasis’ drummer is doing, but yeah he was a huge fan of him right away.”
Source: NME
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