One second, Vampire Weekend are performing a 30-minute jam of “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” with Goose, the next, they’re bringing out Paris Hilton for a game of cornhole. The random cameo from the reality TV starlet occurred during Vampire Weekend’s surprise Saturday afternoon performance at Coachella.
To close the set, the veteran indie rockers performed a 15-minute honky tonk mashup dubbed “Cocaine Cowboys,” which featured performances of their own song “Married in a Gold Rush” alongside covers of “All the Gold In California” (Gatlin Brothers Band), “Sin City” (Flying Burrito Brothers), “Cumberland Blues” (The Grateful Dead), and “Possum” (Phish). During the medley, Vampire Weekend invited two special guests to the stage for a game of cornhole: Hilton and an Abraham Lincoln impersonator. For her part, Hilton said she hadn’t play cornhole since her mid-2000s reality show The Simply Life and promptly missed her two attempts.
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Elsewhere during their Coachella set, Vampire Weekend performed “Classical” and “Gen-X Cops,” from their newly released album Only God Was Above Us, plus classic hits like “Diane Young,” “Cousins,” and “A-Punk.”
Vampire Weekend have a few more festival appearances scheduled before properly kicking off their world tour in early June. Tickets to their upcoming tour dates can be found here.
Paris Hilton came out during Vampire Weekend’s set at Coachella to play cornhole pic.twitter.com/J5lQ0kfZur
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