On Monday, New York City's breakout indie combo Vampire Weekend walked the red carpet at London's Q Awards.

The event saw the four-piece brush shoulders with the likes of the Who's Roger Daltry, Coldplay, Keane and a host of other popular British acts, but it might have been one of the group's last star-studded run ins of the year. Bassist Chris Baio recently told Spinner that following stops in Iceland and Europe, they are heading home at the end of fall to start work on the follow up to their 2008 self-titled debut.

"It's our last long tour on this album," Baio said. "We go from Iceland to the UK, then we're doing a week and a half in Germany, and then we come home, but it feels good," he said. "We're sort of at the end of touring on this album and we're all looking forward to going home and making another album."

On their current jaunt, VW are previewing at least two cuts expected to end up on their sophomore effort -- 'White Sky,' and one that goes under the name 'Two Guitars,' because they "don't' have a good title for it yet," Baio said.

And yes, it features an indie guitar battle. "There's some dueling s--- going on in that song," Baio laughed.

Like Jack White vs. Brendan Benson a la the Raconteurs, Spinner asked? "A little bit," Baio replied. "It's Rostam [Batmanglij, Vampire Weekend's guitarist] vs. Ezra [Koenig, Vampire Weekend's frontman] head to head."

Though they are already playing new songs, Baio is quick to point out Vampire Weekend isn't bursting at the seams with new material. According to Baio, writing on the road has proven difficult for the eclectic four piece.

"It's hard because we're all busy all day," he explained. "All summer we were playing festivals [and there was] no sound check. You just walk on stage dry. There's no real time to write stuff. Maybe in the future we'll find a way to write on the road, but for this next album, we're going to really do the bulk of the writing next year."

Though songwriting time was in short supply over the summer, face time with other musicians was bountiful. In fact, they happened to form a friendship with another NYC outfit they hadn't previously met back home.

"We hung out with MGMT a good amount," Baio said. "The funny thing is, with a band like MGMT, some of those dudes live in New York. We get compared to them or asked about them and we had never really met them. Now I feel like I've seen those dudes all over the world."