Watch Vampire Weekend cover Billy Joel’s ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ at Madison Square Garden
nme.comVampire Weekend have performed a cover of Billy Joel‘s ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ while at Madison Square Garden – check out fan-shot footage of the performance below.This past weekend (October 5), Vampire Weekend played the first of their two dates at the iconic New York venue, where they paid homage to Billy Joel, who in July wrapped up his history residency at Madison Square Garden that spanned 150 shows.While Vampire Weekend have played a selection of covers during their encore set during their ongoing tour, the band made sure to differentiate the Joel honouring from their other covers, playing it during their main set.Watch fan-shot footage of Vampire Weekend performing ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ below.The two MSG concerts come after the band played a surprise pop-up show outside a bar on the streets of New York on October 3.Vampire weekend will complete their run of US shows with seven more dates in Wilmington, Raleigh, Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville, St.
Augustine and Austin. You can find any remaining tickets here.OCTOBER08 – Wilmington, NC, Live Oak Bank Pavilion09 – Raleigh, NC, Red Hat Amphitheater11 – Nashville, TN, Ascend Amphitheater12 – Atlanta, GA, Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park13 – Asheville, NC, Rabbit Rabbit15 – St.
Augustine, FL, St. Augustine Amphitheatre17 – Austin, TX, Moody CenterAfter the US tour wraps, the band will head to the UK and Ireland in late November and early December.
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