Being in a successful rock band seems like the best job in the world — until you talk to a successful rocker. In 2001 Iowa-born Dave Keuning had been living in Las Vegas for a year when he put out an advertisement to join a band. He met a local singer, Brandon Flowers, and, after bonding over a love of the Smiths and the Cure, formed the Killers. They had huge hits with 1980s-style synth-pop smashes Mr Brightside and All These Things I Have Done, played stadiums and festivals across the world and sold 22 million albums. Then the cracks appeared.

“I didn’t tour for the last Killers record,” announces Keuning, when we meet in his hotel room in King’s Cross in London. Although