I really like Vampire Weekend. I was excited to get to go to this show, and they definitely did not disappoint. The fun thing about their live show by now is how many legitimately great songs they have in their catalog, to go along with a really enjoyable new album. So, you'd be bopping along to some of the new stuff and enjoying yourself pleasantly, before they'd pop up with "Cousins" or "Oxford Comma" or some other older banger and you'd get excited all over again. I also think that we benefitted from this being the last stop on their tour, so they were super tight on the new stuff. Sounded great!
The way that their show got weird though was that after an hour and a half or so, they acted like the show was over. Hell, they even said from the stage "that was the end of the concert," but then they stuck around and took audience requests for covers like they were a bar band in a college town. It was really odd. The ones I can remember by now: Blind Melon "No Rain," Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name," ZZ Top "Tush," George Strait "Amarillo by Morning," Blur "Song 2." And what made it both awesome and terrible is that they didn't appear to have rehearsed these songs, so Ezra didn't know half the lyrics, or would just sing the wrong bits at the wrong time. "Amarillo by Morning" was pretty legit though. That one felt a little more rehearsed like they prepared it for Texas. Sadly, they couldn't hear me yelling "PLAY WHIP IT YOU COWARDS" at the top of my lungs.
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