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The Killers have issued an apology after frontman Brandon Flowers was jeered and booed for bringing a Russian fan on stage during a show in Georgia and encouraging the angry crowd to consider one another “brothers and sisters.”
Flowers invited the Russian to play drums with the band near the end of the show at the Black Sea Arena in Batumi, Georgia, on Tuesday night. “We don’t know the etiquette of this land but this guy’s a Russian,” Flowers told the audience. “You OK with a Russian coming up here?”
They were not. A loud chorus of boos can be heard ringing out from the crowd in videos of the moment shared on social media. After performing the song “For Reasons Unknown,” Flowers poured kerosene on the fire by addressing the audience’s angry response.