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Article: Pop
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2008
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND Electric Ballroom LONDON ****
When was the last time a lead singer took to the stage in a
yellow V-necked sweater with sleeves pushed up to the elbows? This
was Ezra Koenig, Columbia University graduate and 23-year-old
Vampire Weekend frontman, and he looked as though he'd just stepped
out of a tutorial and was about to settle down on the faculty lawn
to do some serious background reading.
If preppy is the new cool then Koenig and his three-band mates -
Columbia alumni all - have it in abundance. But there is so much
more to them than that, as the dazzling show with which they closed
their biggest UK tour to date demonstrated.
The buzz has been building around Vampire Weekend ...