The Kills at Brooklyn Steel
photo by Em Grey

The Kills played Brooklyn Steel with Algiers (pics, videos, setlist)

Can I just talk about the freakin superstar that is Alison Mosshart!?! I have never been in more admiration and fear of a woman in my life. She approaches the stage like she is both a bomb squad and the bomb, all at once, which made The Kills Brooklyn Steel concert one of the best I have seen. Why? Because a fierce queen cannot be denied.

While The Kills are a dynamic duo, Mosshart is the lead vocalist, which, naturally, makes her the one you watch. Yet, before I gush further on Mosshart, Jamie Hince is not one to be left behind. He hisses and swerves his guitar like he has a snake rapped around him. He gushes forward at the bites/ riffs this snake/ guitar causes, and its venom spills over songs such as, “Kissy Kissy”, “Sour Cherry”, and “Whirling Eye”. He just stands and causes delirium in sound, while Mosshart moves around the stage as if she is fighting Music. I have NEVER seen anyone jolt and jilt through their performance quite like this singer. It was as if she was battling an invisible Avenger to radiate vocals that, again, ignited people’s inner warrior. You do not go to a The Kills’ concert without having a small voice in your head saying, “I wish I could kick some ass.” [Diandra Reviews It All]

The Kills are playing some shows this year and just stopped in NYC for a Brooklyn Steel gig on Friday (7/21). That’s a review of the band’s high-energy set from the Brooklyn Steel show above. They played a couple songs that appeared in stripped-down versions on their new Echo Love – Non-Electric EP, plus a handful of favorites like “Kissy Kissy,” “Tape Song,” “U.R.A. Fever,” “No Wow,” “Black Balloon,” and still more.

Soulful Matador band Algiers opened and also played their own show at Baby’s All Right (7/22) the next night. Pictures of the Brooklyn Steel are in the gallery above. The Kills’ setlist and some videos (shot by Robert Johnson) below.

The Kills are touring overseas in August and September and they play two California festivals in October: Foo Fighters’ Cal Jam ’17 and David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption.

Setlist (via)
Heart of a Dog
U.R.A. Fever
Kissy Kissy
Hard Habit to Break
Impossible Tracks
Black Balloon
Baby Says
Tape Song
Echo Home
Doing It to Death
Whirling Eye
Pots and Pans / Monkey 23

Encore:
That Love
Siberian Nights
M.E.X.I.C.O.
Sour Cherry
No Wow

photos by Em Grey