20 October 2026

“We met New Order for the first time at the NME Awards
in 2005. We were starstruck. And then I was in the bathroom,
I was at the urinal and their singer Bernard Sumner steps up
next to me and he started singing our song ‘Somebody Told Me’ in my ear. I was 23, it was surreal. That’s so out of this world to have that happen. It was incredible.”

The Killers actually got their name from a fictional band called The Killers, with their
name emblazoned on the drum kit in the video clip of New Order‘s song Chrystal from 2001. When a young Brandon Flowers saw the clip, he decided to baptize his new band The Killers.