Vampire Weekend Cowl Billy Joel’s “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”: Watch

Vampire Weekend performed two exhibits at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard this weekend, as they proceed to tour in assist of Solely God Was Above Us. The primary present passed off final night time (October 5), and featured assist from Mark Ronson and a Billy Joel tribute band known as Turnstiles. To not be outdone by their openers, Vampire Weekend additionally lined Billy Joel, taking part in “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” full with a pair eating and being waited upon onstage. (The person within the couple was Definitive Jux rapper and former Time Disaster host Despot.) Watch the efficiency under.

Famously, Billy Joel had a live performance residency at Madison Sq. Backyard from 2014 to 2024. He performed his purported closing present on the venue on Thursday, July 25, 2024. It was his a hundred and fiftieth live performance on the enviornment, with the primary happening on Thursday, December 14, 1978.

Learn Pitchfork’s Sunday Assessment of The Stranger, the 1977 Billy Joel studio album that homes “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant.”