Review of the Who September 1 at Madison Square Garden Tour
Vampire Weekend released their long-awaited and highly-predictable new album Father Of The Bride dorsum in May (via Columbia Records), which made it quite a long wait for fans to go a proper homecoming tour in support of the album at Madison Square Garden this past Fri night (September 6th). In that location was the intimate run of shows near the anthology's release appointment that included a legendary 56-song performance at Webster Hall), simply for the fans that missed out on those shows, they had to patiently wait nearly five months to come across the proper homecoming show at The World'south Most Famous Arena.
The wait was more than worth it, as Vampire Weekend delivered a prove for the ages at MSG, somehow their first-time performing at the venue (they played Barclays Center during the Mod Vampires of the Urban center era). Playing for nearly three hours straight, the ring tore through their catalog, while still giving enough of expected focus to the new songs off of Male parent Of The Helpmate. Every ticketholder was given a LED wristband that had the engagement of the bear witness and a piddling greenish snake on it that was used to provide some extra bit of lighting during particular moments of the testify to give the operation just a niggling extra theatrically that everyone in the audience got a boot out of when information technology was used.
The band kicked the show off with a high energy launching pad of "Bambina," "Unbelievers," and "White Sky," while also some surprisingly early performances of favorites such as "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "M79." Merely then again, Vampire Weekend is a now a ring with four albums worth of material at their disposal and was able to curate the setlist in a manner that allowed songs to be put in different aspects of the spotlight to requite the MSG performance enough of surprises. This included an advent from The Internet'south Steve Lacy to come up out to perform his ain track "Dark Red" with the band, forth with "Sunflower," the start fourth dimension that he performed the track as it was recorded live with the ring.
making skilful use of the insane guitar chops of Brian Robert Jones, who fits in perfectly along with the longstanding trio of Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, and Chris Tomson. The style that he adds new layers and dimension to their encompass of SBTRKT's "New Dorp. New York" and "Sunflower," is a thing of dazzler, as is the incorporation of Springtime Carnivore's Greta Morgan, who took spotlight to perform Danielle Haim's vocals on "Hold Yous Now" and helped hold down the fort throughout the functioning, forth with extra drummer Garrett Ray and keyboardist/vocalizer Will Canzoneri, whose presence immune the band a richer fuller reach that extended throughout MSG.
The band played way past 11pm (the time when most bands will terminate at MSG), taking a few fan requests during the seven-song encore, with fans choose "Ottoman," "Obvious Cycle" and "Run," earlier the final stretch of "Worship Y'all," "Ya Hey," and "Walcott" closed things off. During "Walcott," I couldn't assist just recollect to meet the band for the first fourth dimension at Bowery Ballroom in 2008 and moshing in a oversupply total of equally young teenagers and older fans dressed in suits who came to the prove straight from piece of work. It was a clear sign of what was to come for Vampire Weekend, a band who accept continued to grow larger past the minute but withal maintain every unmarried quality that has fabricated them such a staple for this generation of rock, 1 that we are thankful to have.
The band has already appear a few new 2020 bout dates, that leaves them plenty of room for festival appearances. Something tells me an appearance at Governors Ball 2020 is looking pretty expert.
For now, enjoy a gallery of photos from their performance at MSG below, forth with the setlist.
Vampire Weekend setlist:
1. Bambina
2. Unbelievers
3. White Sky
iv. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
5. Vacation
6. M79
7. One (Blake's Got a New Confront)
viii. Sympathy
ix. Unbearably White
ten. Step
eleven. New Dorp. New York (SBTRKT cover)
12. This Life
xiii. Diplomat's Son (with snippet of "Pressure Driblet" by Toots and the Maytals)
fourteen. Hold Yous Now
15. Harmony Hall
16. Diane Immature
17. Cousins
18. A-Punk
19. Hannah Hunt
20. 2021
21. California English language
22. Dark Red (Steve Lacy cover with Steve Lacy)
23. Sunflower (with Steve Lacy)
24. Oxford Comma
25. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin (with Angélique Kidjo + snippet of Paul Simon's "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes")
Encore:
26. Big Blue
27. Ottoman (fan request)
28. Obvious Bike (with snippet of John Burley'due south "Son of a Preacher Man") (fan request)
29. Run (fan request)
30. Worship You
31. Ya Hey
32. Walcott
Source: https://weallwantsomeone.org/2019/09/09/photos-review-vampire-weekend-at-madison-square-garden-september-6-2019/