Coachella 2024: Vampire Weekend set includes new songs, classic hits and ... Paris Hilton?

Goldenvoice gave festivalgoers a little treat on Tuesday when the organizers behind its Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival revealed a new name on the set times schedule: Vampire Weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, during the band's set, frontman Ezra Koenig revealed a little more about their late addition.

"One week ago today, we didn't know we were going to be here, and you didn't know we were going to be here," he said while wearing a Pogues shirt at the Outdoor Theatre. "I was sitting at home in Weimar, Texas, sipping Ranch Waters and looking at wildflowers and I got the text saying 'Can you come to the festival.' I called the boys and it was a busy week, but we made our way out here."

The Indie rock band from New York City just released their fifth album on April 5 called "Only God Was Above Us." They begin a tour supporting the new album later this spring, but played a 45-minute set at Coachella on Saturday that had a little bit of everything. And that phrase isn't used lightly. Let's just say Paris Hilton played cornhole on stage at one point, but we'll get to that.

The band, with the exception of an eclipse-based show on Monday in Austin, Texas, was playing its first concert in more than two years.

The first 30 minutes was traditional Vampire Weekend indie-pop fun in the sun. The setlist included two songs from their new album "Classical" and "Gen-X Cops" as well as most of their most popular hits like "A-Punk," "Holiday," "Unbelievers" and "Cousins."

And then things took a different turn. Koenig joked that when he got the text from the festival asking if they would come, he was so "twisted on Ranch Water" that he wasn't sure if they meant Coachella or Stagecoach. That was his clever way of getting into the final part of their set, which was a 15-minute country/honky-tonk mashup which he called "Cocaine Cowboys."

There was a gold rush theme as they played their song "Married in a Gold Rush" at the start of the medley that included "All the Gold In California" (Gatlin Brothers Band), "Sin City" (Flying Burrito Brothers), "Cumberland Blues" (Grateful Dead), and "Possum" (Phish).

Then, with five minutes to go in their set, a cornhole board was set up on the stage and they had two special guests come out to toss some bags. If they made it in, the band would throw "gold bars" (candy bars) out into the crowd. The first special guest was Paris Hilton, who came out and said she hadn't played the game since her show "The Simple Life." She threw the first two and missed, then walked up and put the third one in, said good bye and left.

The second special guest was former President Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe didn't talk, missed two, then made one and — true to the word — about 25 gold-wrapped candy bars were tossed into the crowd.

And then it was over. Weird.

There seems to be an open debate on whether Vampire Weekend will return for Weekend 2 of Coachella, but those that saw the Weekend 1 performance were left happy, if not a little confused.

More: Coachella 2024: Here's the complete setlist from Vampire Weekend's Saturday Weekend 1 set

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