Tonight's Vampire Weekend show off after drummer is hospitalised in hit 'n' run incident
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Vampire Weekend have been forced to cancel tonight’s instore at Rough Trade East after drummer Chris Thompson (pictured) was hospitalised after being hit by a car last night.
The band were due to play at the store in London’s Brick Lane after cancelling the last two dates of the UK tour this week due to illness.
However, Thompson's involvement in the hit'n'run left him in hospital and means that the band will now fly back to the US without playing any further shows in the UK.
“Due to the events of the last 48 hours Vampire Weekend are sad to announce they are unable to play the Rough Trade instore tonight,” read a press statement. “Don’t worry, everyone's on the mend. Thanks for all your support.”
Meanwhile, Rough Trade remarked that they were "relieved" Thompson is OK, and that they look forward to welcoming the band back later in the year.
The band’s last couple of weeks have been dogged by misfortune, having to cancel those aforementioned gigs in Glasgow and Manchester as well as having their recent performance at the ULU in London interrupted by a false fire alarm.
They will, however, be back in the Kingdom this May for a series of live shows, (click here for details), as well as playing the Great Escape.
The band wish to clarify that it was keyboardist Rostram Batmanglij whose illness put paid to the Manchester and Glasgow shows and not Thompson, who was out partying last night at the NME Awards.
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Peter Gabriel
is currently being questioned by police
all the world music aficionados
in pop culture are looking shifty right now,
soon Damon Albarn and David Byrne will start sabotaging vampire weekend
Vampire weekend should become
a word to mean 'ridiculous amount of things going wrong against the odds'.
It was a Vampire Weekend. Sure was, mate.
Ha!
What goes around comes around.
At last night's Glasgow gig, Young Knives seemed to insinuate that Vampire Weekend cancelled Manchester and Glasgow, not through illness as claimed.
They hinted that it's possible that 'some bands', and of course didn't name any in particular, tend to cancel support slots when the aforementioned support act become as big as the headline act.
Not that they were suggesting anything untoward, but y'know, kinda makes sense if you ask me.
Obvious
multiple drugs binge hangover cover-up.
Well, there goes my nicely planned Friday evening
I'm now going to have to bring forward my date with the pub to about 6pm
bit harsh
the drummer got hospitalised.
CALL IN
CHRIS PENNIE
HE'LL DO ANYFING 4 DA MONIEZZZZ!!!!!!!!!
If it's true,
then possibly.
However. Unspecified members 'ill', drummers getting run over by crazed hit and runners, whilst still being able to fly home, all sounds a bit much.
I'm sure they'll be back for their headline tour though, so don't worry kids.
i can without naming anyone in particular
confirm that this was the case. not that I'm suggesting anything untoward but y'know they weren't overjoyed to be playing these shows and their illness seemed to be a good excuse.
I was told about this accident from someone and they told me it was really funny, really drunk guy got what would have happened to anyone to be so stupid as playing in the road.
however hit and run is harsh!
i saw
this happen..... HORRIBLE
amazed he's alive, actually.


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