Vampire Weekend On Oasis Split

Vampire Weekend have spoken about the Oasis split, as the boys were due on stage before the Gallagher brothers for the Paris Rock en Seine festival in August last year.

“It was very awkward” recalls Tomson, “watching their crew breaking down all the lights and instruments, people started crying”.

But the band look back fondly on the Manchester bad boys. “We all liked their first few albums”, Tomson says, but “lost touch from there. I will be sad to see them go”.

Oasis were the face of Britpop, or, in Batmanglij’s words: “the pinnacle of British idiocy!”.