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Vampire Weekend drummer Christopher Tomson has returned from the hospital to deliver some VW news via MySpace blog. It's not purely positive news, but it's certainly good for the band: They accepted an invitation to play live on the March 8 episode of "Saturday Night Live". To do so, however, they were forced to cancel a quartet of sets in Florida, including a couple of shows opening for the Walkmen, and their appearance at Langerado on March 7.

(Hey, this sounds familiar...)

On the plus side, VW have already rescheduled their Orlando and St. Augustine shows for early June, and the Walkmen will still play the original dates this week. So really, it's just a single festival appearance and an in-store that are lost to the sands of time. And since we'll all get to see the band on "SNL" this weekend, we can handle that, right?

After they play "SNL", Vampire Weekend will scurry to meet up with the Walkmen and kick off their tour in Atlanta on March 9.

Vampire Weekend:

03-05 Orlando, FL - Park Avenue (in-store)
03-06 Orlando, FL - The Social ^
03-07 South Florida Everglades, FL - Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Langerado)
03-08 St. Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven ^
03-09 Atlanta, GA - The Earl ^
03-10 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree ^
03-11 New Orleans, LA - Pocket Park
03-14 Austin, TX - Antone's (SXSW)
03-19 San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey *
03-22 San Francisco, CA - The Independent *
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop *
03-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
03-26 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
03-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards *
03-29 Missoula, MT - Badlander *
03-30 Boise, ID - Neurolux *
03-31 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court *
04-01 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater *
04-03 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
04-04 Madison, WI - High Noon *
04-05 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
04-06 Chicago, IL - Metro *
04-11 Providence, RI - Brown University Campus Green #
04-25 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-01 Bristol, England - Bristol Bierkeller
05-02 Birmingham, England - Birmingham Academy
05-03 Edinburgh, Scotland - Liquid Rooms
05-04 Glasgow, Scotland - Oran Mor
05-06 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
05-07 Leeds, England - Cockpit
05-08 Manchester, England - Academy 2
05-09-11 Rye, England - Butlins Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) !
05-12 Portsmouth, England - Wedgewood Rooms
05-13 London, England - Electric Ballroom
05-16 Brighton, England - Great Escape Festival
05-29-31 Barcelona, Spain - Parc del Fòrum (Primavera Sound)
06-07 Orlando, FL - TBA
06-08 St. Augustine, FL - TBA
06-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo

^ with the Walkmen
* with YACHT
# with Lupe Fiasco
! with with the Hold Steady, Jens Lekman, Caribou, Hot Chip, Les Savy Fav, No Age, Black Lips, Of Montreal, Man Man, Los Campesinos!, Glass Candy, Dirty Projectors, Times New Viking, Meat Puppets, Jay Reatard, the Black Angels, Marissa Nadler, Wooden Shjips, Deerhunter, Shit and Shine, Sebadoh, Ween, Redd Kross, Pissed Jeans, Yeasayer, Fuck Buttons, Apse, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Clientele, Black Mountain, Harmonia, Born Ruffians, Howlin Rain, Car Sick Cars, Even