Brandon Flowers: The way the Georgia gig with Russian fan played out was sad

Brandon Flowers has talked about The Killers gig where a Russian fan was invited onto stage (Yui Mok/PA)

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has said that the band was “sad” at how a gig in Georgia played out when they were booed for bringing a Russian fan on stage.

Videos from the concert show Flowers, 42, inviting a fan on stage to play the drums as he says: “We don’t know the etiquette of this land, but this guy’s a Russian are you okay with a Russian coming up here?”