A-tour: Vampire Weekend back again in May, UK

Not dissuaded by erring arsonists, New York’s incorrigible Vampire Weekend will return to the UK live circuit in a couple of months’ time.

Ascending swiftly, the band take the next step up on the venue ladder at the dates below:

May
1 Bristol Bierkeller
2 Birmingham Academy 2
3 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
4 Glasgow Oran Mor
6 Newcastle Northumbria University
7 Leeds Cockpit
8 Manchester Academy 2
12 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
13 London Electric Ballroom

The quartet will also appear at the DrownedinSound-sponsored Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona this May – click here for details, before reading a review of 'A-Punk', the single the band released yesterday.