Singing in the rain
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Though the rain last night deterred me from seeing Vampire Weekend, et al., at SummerStage, some are made of tougher stuff. amNewYork's Max Dickstein reports:
The attendees of the summer stage concert featuring Born Ruffians, Kid Sister and Vampire Weekend on Saturday defied heinous, intermittent thunderstorm drenchings to cheer on the Central Park summer concert series kickoff. Earnest rocker host Andrew W.K. rallied a crowd of soaked collegians when Vampire Weekend took the stage at around 6:15. The foursome hadn't played in hometown New York since a pair of concerts at Bowery Ballroom in mid-January, when Vampire debuted its self-titled first album. Making their way through their clap-happy catalogue of three-minute ditties such as "Mansard Roof" and "Oxford Comma," frontman Ezra Koenig thanked the crowd for waiting out the weather "shitshow."
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Andrew W.K. came onstage for the penultimate song — a cover of Tom Petty's "Don't come around here no more." Koenig said Petty's work is "often derided as frat rock," before Vampire and W.K. went through the water-logged rendition of the Petty hit.
The band finished with a rousing run-through of "Walcott" before the crowd began to squish homeward out of the soggy park.
-Max Dickstein
