The Killers Cover Tom Petty At Austin City Limits Music Festival
By Andy Kahn Oct 9, 2017 • 1:04 pm PDT
The first weekend of the 2017 Austin City Limits Music Festival wrapped yesterday with a performance by The Killers. The group treated the ACL audience to a pair of debut covers honoring Tom Petty.
The Killers opened their set with premiere rendition of the classic Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers hit “American Girl.” Frontman Brandon Flowers led the band through a career-spanning setlist that included “Run For Cover” from their recently issued No. 1 album Wonderful Wonderful and a cover of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay.” Later in the set The Killers offered their first performance of Petty & The Heartbreakers 1981 single “The Waiting.”
The Killers started their encore with the Wonderful Wonderful track “The Man,” followed by “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine” off Hot Fuss and “When You Were Young” from Sam’s Town. Watch audience-shot video captured by Fake Fan of the two Petty covers at ACL yesterday:
Setlist
- American Girl
- Mr. Brightside
- Spaceman
- The Way It Was
- Smile Like You Mean It
- Bling (Confession of a King)
- Shadowplay
- Human
- Somebody Told Me
- Run for Cover
- For Reasons Unknown
- A Dustland Fairytale
- The Waiting
- Read My Mind
- Runaways
- All These Things That I've Done
- The Man
- Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
- When You Were Young
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