Vampire Weekend "M79" (19.4 MB) from Vampire Weekend High Noon Saloon Madison, WI April 4, 2008

This is probably the last time we'll see Vampire Weekend, and I'm sure it's the last time in Madison. They're already too big to be playing the High Noon, frankly, but the show was booked a while back; next time they're out it's likely to be the Barrymore, or skipping Madison entirely. So with that in mind, this was a fun show.

We skipped most of the opening act, but the sell-out crowd was mostly all there by the time we arrived. This tune was only the second in the set, but everybody got revved up pretty quickly. The high energy is one of things that makes me think they're on their way out of the level of shows I tend to go to -- they've only been in the spotlight for a few months and they've already got 400 Madisonians going nuts.