Watch Vampire Weekend play particular eclipse gig
Vampire Weekend have performed a particular gig to mark the latest complete photo voltaic eclipse – see what surprises the band had in retailer under.
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Final evening, the New York band took to the stage on the scenic Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas at roughly 6pm BST and performed by way of the photo voltaic eclipse, treating these in attendance to a handful of surprises from debuting new songs stay and particular company becoming a member of them for covers.
Kicking off with Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Whole Eclipse of The Coronary heart’ taking part in on the audio system because the band took to the stage, they opened the present with the stay debut of ‘Ice Cream Piano’, off their newly launched album ‘Solely God Was Above Us’.
Different songs from ‘Solely God Was Above Us’ that received their stay debuts throughout Vampire Weekend’s particular eclipse gig embrace ‘Join’, ‘Gen-X Cops’, and album nearer ‘Hope’. ‘Hope’ was carried out after the band took a break to look at the eclipse with these in attendance.
Completely unbelievable second. @vampireweekend took a break from their INSANE set, and the second the clouds parted sufficient to see the eclipse, everybody simply went ballistic. https://t.co/9Ywxm7AdsA pic.twitter.com/4nT03iSbtF
— Michael Adkison (@madkisonews) April 8, 2024
Later within the present, Vampire Weekend invited Phoenix‘s Thomas Mars onstage to carry out ‘Tonight’ from Phoenix’s 2022 document ‘Alpha Zulu’, and options Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig on visitor vocals. This additionally marks the primary time the pair have carried out the music stay collectively.
Following ‘Tonight’, Chromeo‘s Dave 1 joined them onstage to sing ‘Blissful Birthday’ to Koenig, who was celebrating his fortieth birthday. After, Dave 1 carried out Chromeo’s ‘Needy Woman’ with Koenig and Vampire Weekend.
Vampire Weekend performed:
‘Ice Cream Piano’ (stay debut)
‘Classical’
‘Unbelievers’
‘Cap Cod Kwassa Kwassa’
‘Vacation’
‘White Sky’
‘Join’ (stay debut)
‘Sunflower’
‘Capricorn’
‘This Life’
‘Gen-X Cops’ (stay debut)
‘Diane Younger’
‘Cousins’
‘Jonathan Low’
‘Flower Moon’
‘Hope’ (stay debut)
‘Tonight’ ft. Thomas Mars (Phoenix cowl)
‘Needy Woman’ ft. Dave 1 (Chromeo cowl)
‘Concord Corridor’
‘Oxford Comma’
‘A-Punk’
‘Married in a Gold Ranch’/’All of the Gold in California’/’Sin Metropolis’/’Cumberland Blues’/’Possum’
‘Walcott’
‘Solely God Was Above Us’, which was launched final Friday (April 5). In a four-star overview, NME wrote: “It’s an bold concoction of sounds that don’t appear to exist in the identical realm, but intertwine naturally beneath [frontman Ezra] Koenig’s more and more sullen vocals.”
The band will head out on tour in North America, in addition to in Europe, the UK and Eire this yr. Vampire Weekend are as a consequence of carry out at Radio 1’s Huge Weekend in Luton subsequent month.
Different pageant appearances for the season embrace Primavera Sound, Kilby Block Get together and Hinterland.