10 July 2025
Last year, in October, seminal blues-rock duo THE KILLS – Alison Mosshart
and Jamie Hince – released their 6th album, the first in 7 years, titled
GOD GAMES. One of 2024’s best.
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The release was followed by a long tour that still rolls on.
Last Monday, the inseparable tandem played in a beautiful green park in Antwerp.
Instantly their olden goldie Kissy Kissy kick-off got the crowd going yeahhhhhhh and
nobody slowed down from there on.
After almost 25 years VV and Hotel (their early nicknames) know how to get everybody swaying their hips to their riff-roasting blues punk-rock fireworks. Mosshart‘s puissant voice and Hince‘s sinewy staccato guitar play still are a winning combination.
As usual Mosshart runs in circles between songs, adrenalized and pumped-up, and Hince pulls his six strings nimble-fingered creating their vintage raw ‘n’ rough boisterousness.
Oldies and newbies alternated in rapid succession (despite some technical guitar problems in between) but several of my Kills favorites (like Whirling Eye, The Last Goodbye, Wait, Fried My Little Brains, Love Is A Deserter and Nail In My Coffin) didn’t make the setlist.
To be honest, that was a bit of a downer. The first time ever, I left a Kills gig (and I have seen many) with mixed emotions. Yet, still big fun to have seen them performing once again.
SETLIST
Kissy Kissy
U.R.A. Fever
Love and Tenderness
103
Baby Says
New York
Wasterpiece
Black Balloon
DNA
Hard Habit to Break
LA Hex
My Girls My Girls
Doing It to Death
Future Starts Slow
Encores
Last Day of Magic
Sour Cherry
No Wow
