It's handbags at dawn in The Killers' Camp, as the band's flamboyant frontman Brandon Flowers has launched a vitriolic attack on buzz band The Bravery. Flowers accused The Bravery of copying his own band and implies that the New York band are a pale imitation of The Killers. In an interview with MTV he said: "Look at a band like The Bravery. They're signed because we're a band.
I've heard rumours about [members of] that band being in a different kind of band, and how do you defend that? If you say, 'My heart really belongs to what I'm doing now,' but you used to be in a Ska band. I can see The Strokes play or Franz Ferdinand play and it's real, and I haven't gotten that from The Bravery. I think people will see through them." Get him.
In the same interview Flowers revealed that the band's old drummer is now suing him, claiming that he wrote the band's hit 'Mr
Brightside': "This guy who was in my band a long time ago is trying to sue us. We wrote 'Mr Brightside' a long, long time ago, when we had a different drummer. He had nothing to do with it, but his wife is a lawyer, so she just sent a letter to our lawyer. Wow. You always hear about people coming out of the woodwork once you get big, but this is ... wow."
Meanwhile the band have been working on new material: "One new song is called 'Where Is She', it's got a great feel, some great harmonies on it. We didn't do enough harmonies on our first album, so you're gonna hear more of that on the second album, those Police-esque harmonies. And we're playing other new songs
'Higher And Higher', 'Daddy's Eyes', 'It's Only Natural' that will make it onto the second album. You can't drift too far off the first record, but these songs are what the new album will sound like. A bit more organic, with organs and pianos.
We don't want to be 'that [synth] band' forever. We'll let someone else be that."