Watch Vampire Weekend cover Billy Joel’s ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ at Madison Square Garden
The tribute comes after Joel wrapped up his history-making residency at the venue earlier this year
by Surej Singh · NMEVampire Weekend have performed a cover of Billy Joel‘s ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ while at Madison Square Garden – check out fan-shot footage of the performance below.
This past weekend (October 5), Vampire Weekend played the first of their two dates at the iconic New York venue, where they paid homage to Billy Joel, who in July wrapped up his history residency at Madison Square Garden that spanned 150 shows.
While Vampire Weekend have played a selection of covers during their encore set during their ongoing tour, the band made sure to differentiate the Joel honouring from their other covers, playing it during their main set.
Watch fan-shot footage of Vampire Weekend performing ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ below.
The two MSG concerts come after the band played a surprise pop-up show outside a bar on the streets of New York on October 3.
Vampire weekend will complete their run of US shows with seven more dates in Wilmington, Raleigh, Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville, St. Augustine and Austin. You can find any remaining tickets here.
Vampire Weekend’s remaining 2024 US tour dates are:
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OCTOBER
08 – Wilmington, NC, Live Oak Bank Pavilion
09 – Raleigh, NC, Red Hat Amphitheater
11 – Nashville, TN, Ascend Amphitheater
12 – Atlanta, GA, Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
13 – Asheville, NC, Rabbit Rabbit
15 – St. Augustine, FL, St. Augustine Amphitheatre
17 – Austin, TX, Moody Center
After the US tour wraps, the band will head to the UK and Ireland in late November and early December. Find the full list of dates below and get any remaining tickets here.
Vampire Weekend’s 2024 UK and Ireland headline dates are:
NOVEMBER
29 – 3Arena, Dublin
DECEMBER
01 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
02 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
04 – Eventim Apollo, London
05 – Eventim Apollo, London
06 – The Halls, Wolverhampton
08 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
10 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
11 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
Vampire Weekend’s latest album ‘Only God Was Above Us’ scored a four-star review from Laura Molloy, who wrote for NME: “Despite its sentimental homages to the history of their hometown, ‘Only God Was Above Us’ isn’t a nostalgic album. Rather than adopting an overly rose tinted view of the past to cope with the present, Koenig seems to be fine with embracing that things just aren’t that great.”