Leeds Festival: The Killers, Central Cee and 1975 close the weekend

Leeds Festival closed connected Sunday with a heady premix of rock, rap and popular from the Killers, Central Cee and the 1975.

The Killers concluded their acceptable with 2 consecutive antithetic renditions of their eternal anthem Mr Brightside - the archetypal a astonishing synth reworking - prompting wide hysteria.

Earlier, Central Cee thrilled UK rap fans with a abbreviated but saccharine mentation of his chart-busting Dave collab Sprinter.

Co-headliners The 1975 gave a large retired outcry retired to the absent Lewis Capaldi.

Matty Healy's band, who stepped successful a fewer months backmost aft the Scottish vocalist cancelled his circuit dates to set to the interaction of Tourette syndrome, utilized the juncture to play their eponymous debut medium successful full, 10 years connected from its release.

The past clip Killers frontman Brandon Flowers appeared earlier UK audiences was arsenic a astonishment impermanent of Sir Elton John during his farewell Glastonbury set, shocking fans with his polished, tanned caller look.

And helium looks arsenic dapper connected Sunday, his sparkly acheronian suit overgarment having been protected, presumably, from the lunchtime downpour.

Flowers is simply a performer of large polish. One who has intelligibly studied each frontman successful the stone 'n' rotation handbook, from Morrissey to Bowie to Mercury via Springsteen; stolen each of their champion moves - the ft connected the monitor, fist successful the aerial etc - and added a spot of his ain Las Vegas preacher-style charm. His signifier patter is arsenic good rehearsed arsenic his songs.

"If you came present contiguous looking for stone 'n' rotation you came to the close place," helium declares, "Can I get an amen?"

Fans are informed they are fortunate to bare witnesser to "Dr Ronnie 'Unstoppable' Vannucci Jr connected drums tonight". His bandmate responds by hitting the footwear drum truthful hard it astir bursts.

Speaking of drummers, performances of their way For Reasons Unknown usually travel implicit with a instrumentality being beckoned up from the assemblage to bang the skins, similar astatine Reading the erstwhile night, but anyone who had practised the opus successful anticipation would beryllium near disappointed.

The setlist draws heavy connected their adjacent cleanable 2004 debut medium Hot Fuss, which arrived afloat formed erstwhile they were young. But the show is 1 that lone a set with decades of festival headlining nether its loop could provide.

Smile Like You Mean It sounds arsenic bully arsenic ever earlier Somebody Told Me gets the enactment started.

We are treated to a marque caller song, Your Side of Town, which, with its autotuned vocal, sounds a spot similar Daft Punk singing the Pet Shop Boys.

The acceptable ends with Flowers confidently leaving the assemblage to commencement the refrain of "I've Got Soul But I'm Not a Soldier" connected All These Things That I Have Done connected their own, earlier adding his ain almighty vocal.

The encore brings a wide singalong, archetypal for Human - started comically with a distorted alien dependable by Flowers - and past Mr Brightside; a opus truthful ubiquitously played - similar Wonderwall oregon Sweet Child O' Mine - that it's intolerable astatine this constituent to person immoderate nonsubjective thoughts astir it. It intelligibly indispensable person been a large opus astatine 1 constituent but present it simply is. It's retired there, successful the ether.

So seeing the 2004 indie guitar classical performed astatine an accrued voltage to a caller assemblage who are astir apt proceeding it unrecorded for the archetypal time, has a galvanising effect.

Flowers precocious said helium was arrogant that Mr Brightside had "stood the trial of time", similar immoderate of his ain favourite songs by the likes of Depeche Mode oregon U2. "I ne'er get bored of singing it," helium said, and it shows tonight. "Those songs beryllium to everyone."

It particularly belongs to his band's drummer contiguous though, who milks the ending, drafting endless cheers retired of the crowd, agelong aft the extended wig retired is over, and his vocalist is disconnected into the night.

Before the prima sets, West London drill prima Central Cee, 1 of the hottest rappers successful the satellite close now, is rolling heavy for his set, backed by a postulation of artists rapping on disconnected mic.

"Have we got immoderate UK rap fans?" helium asked the ample aboriginal evening crowd, to large cheers.

LA Leakers is simply a acceptable highlight, primitively a freestyle rap, which breaks down British thoroughfare slang for US listeners.

"This is 1 of the lit-est shows," helium says, utilizing 1 specified example, portion pausing to instrumentality a representation of the assemblage with his phone.

"I don't wanna spot anyone lasting still," helium adds. "I person enactment enactment successful for years for this and this ain't nary coincidence."

Commitment Issues goes down a treat, with 1 pistillate successful the assemblage holding up a motion saying she is moving to hole akin issues of her own. The prima calls for much ladies connected shoulders.

In caller years, rap euphony has enjoyed an ever-increasingly ample beingness astatine the festival, reflecting listening habits successful the integer age.

Earlier this month, Central Cee's way Sprinter, which sees him and last year's Leeds headliner Dave opening up astir the problems of partying with excessively galore girls, acceptable a caller grounds for the longest-running UK rap fig 1 azygous - 9 weeks.

There was nary quality from Dave contiguous though and the way was strangely condensed to conscionable a fewer verses, rolling into different shortened mentation of his different large deed Doja - implicit with its Eve sample.

The line: "How tin I beryllium homophobic? / My [girl] is gay," draws the champion one-line rap-a-long of the afternoon, booming backmost astatine the prima from astir the main signifier field.

After Central Cee, the 1975 - introduced by Healy arsenic being "from Wilmslow" but "exiled from Manchester" - takes Leeds 2023 backmost to 2013 with a fun-sounding, nostalgic acceptable of aged tracks including Chocolate and Heart Out.

The pop-rock vocalist looks successful relaxed mood, swigging from a hep flask, and stops the free-flowing acceptable lone concisely to present 1 important announcement.

"Let's person the biggest cheer of the nighttime truthful acold for Mr Lewis Capaldi, who couldn't beryllium with america this evening," helium say, adding: "Love you bro."

Perhaps wisely, determination is nary connected signifier notation of their present legally delicate caller contention astatine a festival successful Malaysia, which was cancelled aft Healy attacked the country's anti-LGBT laws.

He called them "the cleanable Reading and Leeds band" arsenic good arsenic the "voice of a generation".