After a half an hour wait and the crowd becoming palpably more and more anxious, Edward Sharpe the Magnetic Zeros took the Broad Street Stage just as the sun was setting on Bumbershoot Saturday night.
In no time – within the first three songs in fact – frontman Alex Ebert had shed his white blazer and tank top, dancing around like a crazy hippie on stage, accompanied by his bandmates…and a baby. Yes, I said baby. It almost seemed like a festive family hoedown on stage, and Ebert eventually stepped out across the barrier and into the crowd and brought the festivities to the hundreds of people shoved onto the lawn.
The band played through most of the songs off their debit Up From Below, but as soon as they started the opening riffs to “Home,” which is such a hit that it’s almost to the point of overplaying, everyone went wild. What was amusing actually, after “Home” was over – in the middle of their set – a large portion of the crowd left.
Really, crowd? You just went to go hear one song? That’s lame. But Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros certainly weren’t lame, even if they did set the schedule behind 20 minutes for the rest of the night.
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