Vampire Weekend share new single ‘Mary Boone’ and announce UK and European tour
Vampire Weekend have launched a brand new single ‘Mary Boone’ and introduced a UK and European tour for the top of 2024. Learn on for all the main points.
‘Mary Boone’ is the fourth and last single to be shared forward of the discharge of their fifth studio album ‘Solely God Was Above Us‘, which comes out on April 5. It follows on from ‘Capricorn’, ‘Gen X Cops’ and ‘Classical’.
The brand new tune is known as after one of many main lights of the ’80s artwork scene in New York, and it encompasses a pattern of the drum loop from Soul II Soul’s ‘Again to Life (Nonetheless Do You Need Me)’.
Hearken to the tune right here:
The band may even play 9 dates within the UK and Europe later this yr, kicking off in Dublin’s 3Arena on November 29 and wrapping in Amsterdam’s AFAS Reside on December 15.
Tickets for the reveals go on a fan pre-sale on April 3 from 10am, with common sale starting on the identical time on April 5 – visit here for tickets. Followers who pre-order the album here will obtain early entry to tickets.
Vampire Weekend will play:
NOVEMBER
29 – Dublin, 3Arena
DECEMBER
1 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
2 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
4 – London, Eventim Apollo
6 – Wolverhampton, The Halls
8 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
10 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
13 – Paris, Adidas Area
15 – Amsterdam, AFAS Reside
‘Solely God Was Above Us‘ has been described as a “10-track magnum opus”, the “product of 5 years spent refining, remodeling and step by step shaping these lyrical and melodic buildings to take Vampire Weekend to a brand new artistic peak.”
To mark the album’s launch, they’ll play a livestreamed live performance in Austin, Texas on April 8, which is able to happen throughout a complete photo voltaic eclipse. The band will livestream the present by way of the streaming platform Veeps. Tickets are free and could be claimed here.
The band additionally just lately teased a brand new offshoot challenge with an “imaginary backstory”.
Drummer Chris Tomson defined its summer season 2020 inception: “The world had stopped working and quite a lot of what we usually do was simply not being finished. There was one thing about simply taking part in with no expectation — to simply play with my two very shut mates with out an agenda.”
Frontman Ezra Koenig additional revealed an “imaginary again story” for the band, calling them a “band that got here out round 1989, 1990, and so they have been slightly bit too punky for the jam scene and slightly bit too jammy for the punk scene. And there’s slightly little bit of the Minutemen in there.” Nonetheless, he admitted the band is “nonetheless hashing out its sound”, including: “I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of”.
He additionally responded to questions on whether or not the brand new challenge might open for Vampire Weekend, saying: “That has been mentioned.”