Where did the name “Vampire Weekend” come from?
Ezra, our singer. It was in between freshman and sophomore years of college—he was home for the summer, and had seen The Lost Boys. He wanted to make his own, east coast, New England version of Lost Boys. For two days he filmed this movie called “Vampire Weekend” about this guy named Walcott whose dad gets killed by vampires, and he travels up to Cape Cod to warn the mayor of Cape Cod that vampires are attacking the country. He only made it for two days, and then sort of forgot about it for a while. And, then, two-and-a-half years later, during his senior year, he sort of unearthed the footage for it, and made it into a two minute trailer. And that was about a month before the band got together; so when the band came together, we sort of took it and not over-think it. That, and the song “Walcott” are the only connection to that movie. The northeast seems to reoccur in some of the tunes, now that song makes sense. If you listen to “Walcott,” he’s leaving Cape Cod, which is a little diff
