Fortunately Vampire Weekend care much more concerning the 2024 photo voltaic eclipse than concerning the Oxford comma. They’re going to be taking the stage at Austin’s Moody Amphitheater on April 8 and taking part in whereas Central Texas is shrouded in darkness. Though there shall be loads to do close to San Antonio, this present below extraordinarily uncommon circumstances needs to be value touring for.
Vampire Weekend, led by the enigmatic and perpetually collegiate Ezra Koenig, is understood for buoyant guitar riffs, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and the euphoric vitality that drove indie music within the late aughts and early 2010s. The band introduced the present on February 8 along with their fifth studio album, Solely God Was Above Us — a fittingly ironic title for the event within the sky.
Though a press launch doesn’t provide an album launch date, it does affirm that it’s going to occur the week of the Waterloo Greenway present. Like a lot of Vampire Weekend’s catalog, the primary album in 5 years was “impressed and haunted” (per the discharge) by New York Metropolis. It is going to “[show] the band directly at its grittiest, and in addition at its most stunning and melodic.”
Music festivals have been profiting from celestial occasions not too long ago. Austin Metropolis Limits Musical Pageant appeared to have timed itself with the annular eclipse by coincidence in 2023, and nobody was taking part in when it was at its peak — however festival-goers did collect at Zilker to understand the spectacle. Subsequent up, we’ve got UtopiaFest within the Hill Nation, an outdoorsy tenting competition with a principally native lineup.
The Hill Nation has additionally been getting plenty of nationwide consideration as potential vacationers begin scoping out their yr’s plans. Sadly, even vampires can solely be in a single place at a time.
Nostalgic indie lovers can get pleasure from this present as a part of Waterloo Greenway’s bid for people’ consideration through the uncommon crossing of heavenly our bodies. It is alongside — however apparently not aside of — an occasion collection referred to as Within the Path of Totality, which has curated “poetry and storytelling, family-friendly academic applications, music, and extra,” in accordance with the Greenway’s web site.
An eclipse viewing occasion will begin on the Lengthy Heart at 11 am. Vampire Weekend is scheduled for midday. Nationaleclipse.com locations the occasion at 1:36:11 CDT. It is arduous to say what music the band will play for the one minute and 44 seconds of full eclipse, nevertheless it needs to be in the direction of the top of the set — in all probability “A Punk” if they are going for affect by way of recognition.
Tickets go on common sale Tuesday, February 13, at 10 am by way of Ticketmaster. Varied pre-sales begin working February 9. Occasion organizers will hand out eclipse glasses on the present. For each live performance at Moody Amphitheater, Waterloo park offers away 100 free tickets by a web based giveaway system. Extra data from the discharge under:
Submission kinds open at the least two weeks previous to the present, and randomly chosen winners are notified one week previous to the present. This ticket giveaway is made potential by a novel partnership between Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, C3 Presents, and Dwell Nation. Please go to waterloogreenway.org for extra data.
