Vampire Weekend “White Sky” live May 10, 2024 @ Kilby Block Party (Salt Lake City, UT) 

How about that wordless chorus?! "Ah-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ooh-ooh-ooh. Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh" (x4). Vampire Weekend sounded great for their set @ Kilby Block Party! Just a blast to be there, with them performing a mix of old classics like this one ("White Sky") and new songs. Ezra reminisced about the prior times they've performed @ Kilby, including in 2007 before they released their first album. He asked how many people were there and tons of people cheered, and then he deadpanned that there were only like 30 people there in 2007 (which probably isn't too far off; one of my friends who was there said like around 100 people). Vampire Weekend was jetting out from SLC to NYC to play SNL the next night.
""White Sky" actually was written during the time they were writing/recording their self-titled debut, but didn't get on an album until Contra. They had been playing it a bunch at concerts before they recorded it. Rolling Stone said it was the 10th best song of 2010. It's such a fun song. I always liked the line "A pair of mirrors that are facing one another. Out in both directions, a thousand little Julias that come together in the middle of Manhattan." Ezra said this line is about a girl in dressing room mirrors and that eternity effect, plus the coming and going at once. The song seems to be about NYC, its history, the power and impositions of capitalism, but like many of their songs, they keep things pretty impressionistic. Perhaps the song is a collection of remembrances from walking through Manhattan, including through MoMa ("the house that modern art built"). Ezra has said he was inspired, in part, by a Serra sculpture at MoMa and Richard Serra Skatepark, so there seems to be lots of little Manhattan references known to Ezra. Another commentator said MoMa housed a Serra exhibition on the second floor in 2007 ("and on the second floor, the Richard Serra Skate Park").
I'll be uploading more highlights from Vampire Weekend and the rest of Kilby Block Party here: • Kilby Block Party (ft....
Enjoy.
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How about that wordless chorus?! "Ah-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ooh-ooh-ooh. Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh" (x4). Vampire Weekend sounded great for their set @ Kilby Block Party! Just a blast to be there, with them performing a mix of old classics like this one ("White Sky") and new songs. Ezra reminisced about the prior times they've performed @ Kilby, including in 2007 before they released their first album. He asked how many people were there and tons of people cheered, and then he deadpanned that there were only like 30 people there in 2007 (which probably isn't too far off; one of my friends who was there said like around 100 people). Vampire Weekend was jetting out from SLC to NYC to play SNL the next night.
""White Sky" actually was written during the time they were writing/recording their self-titled debut, but didn't get on an album until Contra. They had been playing it a bunch at concerts before they recorded it. Rolling Stone said it was the 10th best song of 2010. It's such a fun song. I always liked the line "A pair of mirrors that are facing one another. Out in both directions, a thousand little Julias that come together in the middle of Manhattan." Ezra said this line is about a girl in dressing room mirrors and that eternity effect, plus the coming and going at once. The song seems to be about NYC, its history, the power and impositions of capitalism, but like many of their songs, they keep things pretty impressionistic. Perhaps the song is a collection of remembrances from walking through Manhattan, including through MoMa ("the house that modern art built"). Ezra has said he was inspired, in part, by a Serra sculpture at MoMa and Richard Serra Skatepark, so there seems to be lots of little Manhattan references known to Ezra. Another commentator said MoMa housed a Serra exhibition on the second floor in 2007 ("and on the second floor, the Richard Serra Skate Park").
I'll be uploading more highlights from Vampire Weekend and the rest of Kilby Block Party here: th-cam.com/play/PLmls2kb62BWKbaXRYnE3oM2XJWCtIdSi4.html
Enjoy.