El Posible Proyecto en Solitario de Mark

When a band takes a hiatus, you wonder what the others in the band will do. The lead singer always has a solo career to fall back on, but what happens to the rest?

The latest example is Mark Stoermer, bassist of The Killers. NME magazine recently revealed that he had been producing the album of London-based band Howling Bells. Surely that should be enough to keep him busy? Apparently not.

Details of a solo album by the handsome bassist were revealed to me last year, and it seems that it must now be imminent as a short clip of a track has been posted on his Facebook page. So, what does the clip sound like? Well, it sounds like Stoermer. If you’ve seen The Killers live, you’ve heard his backing vocals on many of the tracks in

cluding When You Were Young, For Reasons Unknown and Read My Mind. From a thirty-second clip you can tell it’s already better than bandmate Brandon Flowers’ solo offering, but often the problem with band members going solo is that it never really works. Mostly because it’s the band as a whole who have built up a large fan base, and unless you keep the sound more-or-less the same, people aren’t going to like it.

So, there you have it. He is the third member of the band to go solo after Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci (he’s now heading up Big Talk Music). Personally, I’d like to see the band back together as they are , in my opinion, the best live band of recent times. A solo album of Stoermer will, however, be a very nice consolation.