Watch Vampire Weekend cowl Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen at New Orleans Jazz Pageant
Vampire Weekend coated Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen throughout their look on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant final evening (April 27) – take a look at footage beneath.
Their set included first-time-ever performances of Dylan deep minimize ‘When He Returns’, first launched on 1979’s ‘Sluggish Prepare Coming’, in addition to The Boss’ 1980 hit ‘Hungry Coronary heart’.
It was the band’s first present with out bassist Chris Baio since 2006, after he was laid low with an sickness. “Of us, I’m specified by mattress with the flu right this moment,” he wrote on Instagram, “and can be lacking a vw present for the primary time since fall of 2006.”
Watch Vampire Weekend’s one-off covers right here:
The band launched their fifth studio album ‘Solely God Was Above Us’ earlier this month. In a four-star assessment, NME wrote: “There’s a hoop of distinctly millennial buoyancy of their early information, an perspective that has crashed and burned within the years since. And, whereas 2019’s ‘Father Of The Bride’ provided sun-soaked musings on the dread of contemporary life, this time round they appear to have, albeit reluctantly, discovered peace with all we are able to’t change.”
The New Yorkers are as a consequence of hit the street this November in help of the album. They had been already scheduled to play two nights on the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on December 4 and 5, together with a present on the O2 Academy Brixton on December 10, however they’ve now added a second Brixton present on December 11 too. Tickets are available here.
Vampire Weekend’s 2024 UK and Eire headline dates are:
NOVEMBER
29 – 3Arena, Dublin
DECEMBER
01 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
02 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
04 – Eventim Apollo, London
05 – Eventim Apollo, London
06 – The Halls, Wolverhampton
08 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
10 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
11 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
Vampire Weekend are as a consequence of carry out at Radio 1’s Massive Weekend in Luton subsequent month. Different pageant appearances for the season embrace Primavera Sound, Kilby Block Occasion and Hinterland.
The group not too long ago kicked off a run of North American dates with a particular present in Austin, Texas, which coincided with the full photo voltaic eclipse.
They’ve since made a last-minute look on the first weekend of Coachella 2024, the place they had been joined on stage by Paris Hilton.