Checked out Vampire Weekend again last night at In The Venue in Salt Lake. They’ve blown up in that short time since I saw them last at Kilby Court four months ago. They mentioned multiple times during the show that playing Kilby Court was probably their favorite venue of the entire tour. Tonight’s show was originally scheduled for Kilby, but quickly moved to a larger venue when they realized how many tickets were being sold.

Since being here in December they’ve released a full length album, been SNL musical guest, Letterman, and cover of Spin magazine among probably many other things. Four months ago there were just over 30 people at the show — tonight, I’d say well over 300 500 people. These four very talented musicians are having fun making new and unique music and their success is well deserved.

If their music alone wasn’t good enough, Vampire Weekend has figured out how to make them look and sound even better… By hooking up with an opening band that sounds like your little sister and her friends singing karaoke at 3 am after drinking two gallons of kool-aid. Yacht has to be one of the strangest opening bands I’ve ever seen or heard (I just listened to their music on myspace and it’s much better recorded than live). It was nothing more than a guy and a girl screaming chants to music played on a laptop (which continued to skip and mess up). Good thing for pool tables…

Vampire only has one album, so a short set is expected, playing only an hour. They claimed a new album is very close, but didn’t reveal any new music from it. Still, a fun show. I realized just how good their drummer is…

I posted a couple vids:

Blake’s Got a New Face
M 79 (compare to last time)

Update: Vampire Weekend: Quality trumps quantity as critical darlings live up to the hype By David Burger - The Salt Lake Tribune