Vampire Weekend to livestream particular photo voltaic eclipse present
Vampire Weekend will livestream a live performance in Austin, Texas subsequent month that’s set to happen throughout a complete photo voltaic eclipse.
The band will play the Moody Amphitheater within the metropolis on Monday, April 8, with the present anticipated to start out at 12pm native time (5pm UK time), and run for roughly two and a half hours.
At 1:36pm, there can be round two minutes of full darkness because the moon passes immediately between the Earth and the solar, with components of North America projected to expertise the uncommon occasion.
The band will livestream the present by way of the streaming platform Veeps. Tickets are free and will be claimed here.
The present will happen simply three days after the discharge of the band’s fifth album ‘Solely God Was Above Us‘, and final week, they launched the newest single ‘Classical’.
That adopted up the 2 beforehand launched singles ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’. The album is out on April 5 by way of Columbia and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
It’s their first album since 2019’s ‘Father Of The Bride’. In a four-star evaluation, NME wrote: “Relying in your temper, there’ll be songs you’d fortunately lop off for a extra streamlined hear, however by and huge, all of those songs make the patchwork way more vibrant. If there’s one other wait this lengthy for album 5, we belief that they’ll make use of the time.”
The band additionally just lately launched a brand new podcast known as ‘Vampire Campfire’. Episodes can be “launched semi-regularly for the foreseeable future”, providing an invitation “behind the scenes right into a longstanding and previously non-public Vampire Weekend ritual: the frequent campfire chats the place Baio, CT and Koenig convene to debate and brainstorm all issues Vampire Weekend – and a lot extra.”
Followers have additionally been advised that there can be Vampire Weekend ‘Easter Eggs’ on the podcast and they are going to be given “advance insights” into the band’s new album.’
Elsewhere, they additionally just lately introduced an enormous 2024 North American tour kicking off in April.