V Festival 2014 Line-Up: ‘The Killers’ Surprised Audience W/ Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’; Ronnie Vannucci Got The Loudest Cheer

V Festival 2014 Line-Up: Loud cheers can be heard from the VFestival UK crowd in Straffordshire on Saturday, August 16 as the Las Vegas-based American band, The Killers performed a slow version of Iggy Azalea's hit single "Fancy". The number got even more exciting as the drummer Ronnie Vannucci had fun on stage with his 'interpretative dancing'.

The brief cover started with Brandon Flowers (lead vocals) hitting the first few chords on the piano informing the audience of the song they are about to perform. Vannucci can be seen getting up from the drum stand as he is about to perform his 'dancing' in time with Flowers' rendition. Loud cheers can be heard from the background while Vannucci is performing.

"We've sort of been working on something and we wanted to show you a little bit of it, if you don't mind hearing it," frontman Brandon Flowers echoing the VFestival Crowd before he hit the chords.

One thing different with the performance is that Flowers made some changes in the lyrics "from L.A. to Toyko" "from Las Vegas to Staffordshire" a combination that let The Rollingstone Online comment as 'slightly less mellifluous'

Another video can be seen on Youtube with the Killers doing a cover of Iggy's Fancy dated a month ago. The caption says it is performed in Montreal Belle Center.

Before astounding the UK crowd, the band is said to have performed in Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco last weekend, where they enlisted Danielle Haim, a member of the pop rock "Haim" from Los Angeles, California to be on the drum stand. The Killers also have their gigs in the Glasgow Summer Sessions in Scotland and the Tennent's Vital in Belfast.

The Killers is not the only band to attempt on a rock version of Azalea's "Fancy" and sources said, there will be more covers in the future. Crosby, Stills and Nash, a folk rock band that blossomed in the late 1960s attempted to have their own version of "Fancy" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon mimicking Neil Young.

Despite earlier reports of criticisms on the Azalea's fancy, the rapper T.I defended the song in an interview with Rolling Stone. "Fancy' is a hit record. 'Fancy' would have been a hit record whoever did it. It's just that she was the first one to think to do it," the rapper said.

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