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THE KILLS Live In A Green Park In ANTWERP – Vintage Blues Rock Fireworks

Posted on by JL

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

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THE KILLS – Alison Mosshart And Jaimie Hince Played Godly Blues Rock Games In Brussels

Posted on by JL

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)

Blues Rock Tandem THE KILLS Released 4th Album ‘BLOOD PRESSURES’ 10 Years Ago

Posted on by JL

7 April 2021

Band: THE KILLS
Who: Blues-punk rockers Alison Mosshart (US) and Jamie Hince (UK)
who hit the scene 20 years ago, in 2001 / 5 albums (so far)

Album: BLOOD PRESSURES – 4th LP
Released: 5 April 2011 – 10 years ago

AllMusic / Heather Phares wrote: “Alison Mosshart leads the way on Blood Pressures,
her dynamic vocals demanding the spotlight whether she and Jamie Hince further streamline their familiar sound or carve out new territory… Blood Pressures is a darker, slower ride than Midnight Boom, but it shows the Kills can make subtle innovations as well as bold ones, and make them fit their signature sound to boot.” Full review here. Score: 4/5.


(pic by Turn Up The Volume!)

Turn Up The Volume says: One of my all-time favorite bands with one of
my favorite albums, including two of their best songs ever (see clips below).

– THE LAST GOODBYE –
(Heartbreaking ballad/striking clip)

– BABY SAYS –

Full album…

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THE KILLS: Facebook