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SALT LAKE CITY — Robbie Connolly’s second gig with The Killers put him in front of 100,000 screaming rugby fans.
The occasion: the AFL Grand Final — Australia’s Super Bowl equivalent — hosted in the enormous Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Melbourne’s home team, the Richmond Tigers, pulled off an upset over the Adelaide Crows that day.) During The Killers’ postgame concert, Richmond goal kicker Jack Riewoldt jumped onstage and sang “Mr. Brightside” with the band.
The Provo-based musician grew up in Salt Lake City and attended Dilworth Elementary, Clayton Middle School, East High School and the University of Utah. He also plays in the Utah band Fictionist, and has been one of The Killers’ backup musicians since September.
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