Koenig recalls "difficult" teaching days

Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig has revealed that he found juggling teaching and music "difficult".

Prior to finding success with the 'Oxford Comma' indie group, Koenig taught eighth-grade students at a tough Brooklyn school.

He told MTV News: "It was a pretty hectic lifestyle. To teach all day, then go record or try to, you know, play a show, and then wake up and go to work again was pretty difficult.

"I guess there were a few times where I had to bring a guitar to school, so even just the fact that I played guitar impressed some of the kids."

Former student Quraan Jones said: "I still see him as the same Mr Koenig. I still have that thing in my mind that this is the same man we threw paper at, wrote on his shirt and put gum on his chair."

Vampire Weekend will play Glastonbury's Other stage on Friday June 27, then the John Peel stage the following day.



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