One of Vampire Weekend’s biggest hits begins with the question “Who gives a f—k about an Oxford comma?” It’s a fair question, and the answer is simple: It me. I GAF about the Oxford comma, because striking it from copy is part of my job. The Weekly adheres to Associated Press style guidelines, which eschew the serial comma. I see it and I strike it; it is punctuation non grata. And when Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sang those words late in the band’s marathon set at Fontainebleau’s BleauLive Theater late last week—a set that included pretty much every VW song I adore, all hits and no skips—I was seen, savage reader. I felt seen, appreciated and catered-to.

So, I imagine, did everyone else. Vampire Weekend’s November 7 Vegas set—the final stop of their Only God Was Above Us tour—was an act of immense generosity from a band that’s visited Vegas only six times in its lifespan, several of those truncated festival sets. (Their last Vegas visit was a 17-song set at Life Is Beautiful in 2019. RIP, LIB.) This Fontainebleau set was the longest VW has played in Vegas: 25 songs, plus 14 brief, shambolic covers. They performed songs from every one of their albums, and even a deep cut B-side from 2008 (“Arrows”). Such was Vampire Weekend’s generosity that was impossible to come away from BleauLive without feeling like you’d been gifted something wonderful. They totally GAF.

Augmented with an expanded band that included keyboardist Will Canzoneri, saxophonist Colin “From Virginia” Killalea, guitarist Brian Robert Jones and violinist Isabel Hagen, singer and guitarist Koenig, bassist Chris Baio and drummer Chris Tomson performed tight, lush and confident versions of “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” “Ice Cream Piano,” “Gen-X Cops,” “Harmony Hall” and “Hope.” “White Sky” was every ounce as bouncy as it is on record; “Step” every bit as courtly and witty. The hype-tastic “A-Punk” once again demonstrated why it needs to be an entire day long, and the previously alluded-to “Oxford Comma” came correct in its every diagram-able sentence.

Koenig didn’t indulge in much banter—mostly mentioned how little the band has visited Vegas and did a “where is everybody from” bit. But during the encore, he and the band did the equivalent of gathering us around the campfire: “We will play any song that isn’t a Vampire Weekend song.” Oh, game on, six-timers.

Taking written and shouted audience requests, VW ripped through a loose and fun set of covers, some attacked with supreme confidence (their takes on Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” and the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” stood out), and some learned on the spot (Neil Young’s “Old Man” and Guided by Voices’ “Glad Girls” basically just got choruses.) Brian Robert Jones responded to a request for “Just let Brian riff” by playing the opening notes of Van Halen’s “Eruption,” and a request for “a stand-up set” from Koenig inspired bassist Baio to pop out the “Seinfeld” theme, his second impromptu cover of the night. (He snuck Koji Kondo’s “underground” theme from “Super Mario Brothers” into the main set.)

It’s tough to pick out a high point from a set that had dozens—if you watch my Insta feed, you’ll just barely hear me singing “Step” along with Koenig, badly—but I confess that I got misty-eyed during a warm, loving take on “Capricorn,” which was accompanied by beautiful footage of New York City in the early 1980s. It takes a certain amount of divinely given talent to make me sentimental for a time and place I didn’t experience myself. Hopefully, with this long-overdue show, they made themselves some Vegas memories that will speed their return.