The Killers have apologised after Brandon Flowers told an audience in Georgia that a Russian fan was their ‘brother’ as he invited them up onstage.
The Smile Like You Mean It hitmakers were loudly booed towards the end of their show in Batumi on Tuesday after inviting a man to play drums with them during For Reasons Unknown.
Flowers revealed to the crowd in the former Soviet state that he was from the neighbouring country, which invaded them in 2008.
In video footage circulating online, the band’s frontman said to a mixture of cheers but overwhelming boos: ‘We don’t know the etiquette of this land but this guy’s a Russian. You OK with a Russian coming up here?’
After the song, the 42-year-old singer was booed again when he raised the subject a second time.
Trying to explain himself and rescue the situation, he was seen arguing: ‘You can’t recognise if someone’s your brother? He’s not your brother?
Since the start of the war in Ukraine last year – which Russia also invaded – some Russian citizens have headed for the safety of Georgia, which gained independence from Soviet rule in 1991, but have faced a backlash there.
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