Vampire Weekend UK Tour 2026 — Dates, Venues & Tickets

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About Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend formed in 2006 at Columbia University in New York City, where Ezra Koenig (vocals, guitar), Chris Baio (bass), Chris Tomson (drums), and Rostam Batmanglij (keys, guitar, production) met as undergraduates in the Morningside Heights dorms and started recording in Batmanglij's bedroom on a four-track. The self-titled debut Vampire Weekend, released January 2008 on XL Recordings, was one of the defining indie albums of the late-2000s blog era: A-Punk, Oxford Comma, Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, and Mansard Roof crossed Afrobeat guitar lines, Paul Simon-style polyrhythms, baroque pop arrangements, and the band's much-discussed Ivy League visual aesthetic, and the record charted top twenty in the US and UK on its way to selling more than a million copies worldwide. Contra followed in January 2010 — Horchata, Cousins, Giving Up the Gun, Holiday — and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, an extraordinary result for an XL indie release. Modern Vampires of the City (May 2013) is the catalogue's critical centrepiece: Diane Young, Step, Ya Hey, Hannah Hunt, Unbelievers, and a denser, mortality-focused lyrical world that won the band the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2014 ceremony and topped year-end lists at Pitchfork, NME, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. Rostam Batmanglij departed as a full member in January 2016 to focus on his solo work and production career, though he has continued to contribute to the band's records as a collaborator. The three-piece reconstituted Vampire Weekend returned in May 2019 with Father of the Bride — eighteen songs, fifty-eight minutes, a country-folk and jam-band-influenced expansion of the sound that featured Danielle Haim on three duets — which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and won a second Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. Only God Was Above Us, released April 2024 on Columbia Records, marked the band's return to denser, distortion-heavy, lyrically ambitious territory: Capricorn, Classical, Gen-X Cops, and Ice Cream Piano landed the album in the Billboard top five and on virtually every critical year-end list. Across the run Vampire Weekend have built one of the most distinctive catalogues in twenty-first-century American indie rock — five albums, two Grammys, two Billboard 200 number ones, and a live show that has scaled cleanly from college-radio basements to amphitheatre headline slots without losing the band's particular sensibility.

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