American rock band Vampire Weekend hit Dublin’s 3Arena on their Only God Was Above Us tour that has dates all across the UK and Europe. I t may have been cold outside in Dublin on the night, but once the guys hit that stage things heated up inside the 3Arena.
The band choosing to open the set with just 3 of them front of stage as a large curtain with Vampire Weekend in large white letters hung behind them.
This was the setting for the first three tracks and a half tracks and then the curtain was dropped and a full band was revealed and the show picked up pace.
Opening act on the night were the brothers that play under the banner of Ye Vagabonds.
Ye Vagabonds photos:
Vampire Weekend photos & set-list:
Set-list:
Hold You Now
Campus
One – Blake’s Got a New Face
Ice Cream Piano
Classical
Connect
White Sky
Unbelievers
This Life
Sympathy
New Dorp. New York (SBTRKT cover)
The Surfer
Ottoman (Ska version, dubbed “Ska-ttoman”)
Oxford Comma
Capricorn
Gen-X Cops
Diane Young
Cousins
A-Punk
Prep-School Gangsters
Mary Boone
Harmony Hall
Hope(Extended outro,as bandleft stage one-by-one)
Encore:
Allison (Fan request Elvis Costello cover)
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant (Fan request Billy Joel cover)
Hotel Yorba (Fan request The White Stripes cover)
The Way It Is (Fan request Bruce Hornsby cover)
Jesus, Etc. (Fan request Wilco cover)
Brown Eyed Girl (Fan request Van Morrison cover)
Hannah Hunt (Fan request Performed with Ska rhythms)
Valerie (Fan request, snippet The Zutons cover)
Fairytale of New York(Snippet on fiddle The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl cover)
Happy Birthday to You (Snippet of Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill cover)
Worship You
Ya Hey
Photos & words – Ian Mc Donnell @mcgigmusic
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