11 May 2024

Last October iconic blues-rock duo THE KILLS – Alison Mosshart
and Jamie Hince – released their 6th LP, the first in 7 years, titled
GOD GAMES. One of 2024’s best.

TUTV wrote: “God Games features fewer fireworks than on previous LPs, but the pair still move and groove with sonic fervour and melodramatic tunes, as we know them. Sultry, delirious and passional. When Mosshart sings the blues, her heart-and-soul vocality draws all attention. Her tantalizing timbre and her midnight hour tone combined with Hince‘s edgy riffs and roasting hooks are what made me a Kills fan from day 1.”

Last Saturday, the duo landed in Brussels as part of their God Games tour. It was the first time since 2016 that we could enjoy their rad riff-rippin’ live force again. In an eye/ear blink Mosshart and Hince got the eager audience on their hands.

Stripped down to just the two of them (after touring with a full band the previous time) and a booming backing track the heat actually turned on the moment Hince hit his first burning chord and Mosshart swayed her hair in all directions and start howling in the micro. Charisma in motion, badass blues exaltation and godly tunes, this is what The Kills are about on stage. They still rule, hands down.

SETLIST

Kissy Kissy
U.R.A. Fever
Love and Tenderness
103
Going to Heaven
Baby Says
New York
Wasterpiece
Kingdom Come
Hard Habit to Break
God Games
Telephone Radio Germany
Black Balloon
DNA
LA Hex
Doing It to Death
Future Starts Slow

Encores:

Blank
Better Days
My Girls My Girls
Sour Cherry

GOD GAMES

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(Photos by Turn Up The Volume)