Vampire Weekend have announced a European and UK tour with a Dublin show.
The band play 3Arena Dublin on November 29th this year.
The New York band will release their new album Only God Was Above Us Out on April 5th, via Columbia Records.
There have been four singles from it so far – ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’, on ‘Classical’ and today they released ‘Mary Boone’, which feature sample of the drums from “Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)” by Soul II Soul.
Vampire Weekend Presale Tickets
The Dublin gig features support from Ye Vagabonds.
A fan pre-sale goes on sale from 10am (GMT) on Wednesday 3rd April with a general sale from 10am on Friday 5th April. Fans pre-ordering the album via Vampire Weekend’s website will receive early access to UK & IRE Tour tickets.
The video features the rapper Despot, driving from New Jersey to Manhattan via the Lincoln Tunnel.
It’s Vampire Weekend’s first full-length offering from since 2019’s Father of the Bride. Only God Was Above Us was primarily produced by Koenig and longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann and mastered by Emily Lazar.
Vampire Weekend UK & European Tour 2024
Nov 29 2024 Dublin, Ireland 3Arena
Dec 01 2024 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
Dec 02 2024 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
Dec 04 2024 London, UK Eventim Apollo
Dec 06 2024 Wolverhampton, UK The Halls
Dec 08 2024 Glasgow, UK OVO Hydro
Dec 10 2024 London, UK O2 Academy Brixton
Dec 13 2024 Paris, France Adidas Arena
Dec 15 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands AFAS Live
The band also have a new podcast – Vampire Campfire Podcast.
The beginnings of Only God Was Above Us stretch back to 2019-2020, when Koenig wrote the bulk of the lyrics. The title is lifted directly from the album artwork, comprised of photos taken from a subway graveyard in New Jersey in 1988 by Steven Siegel. In the album’s cover, a man in a toppled subway car reads the May 1, 1988 edition of the New York Daily News — the cover story detailing the horrific explosion that tore the roof off Aloha Airlines flight 243. The headline quotes a survivor: “ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US.”
Only God Was Above Us will be available across digital platforms as well as on vinyl and CD. Pre-orders can be placed at https://vampireweekend.store.
