Timeflies and The Jane Doze @ Union Transfer.

Text by Ian Cruiess.

This past Saturday, Union Transfer was greeted with a dance-filled set by mash-up artists The Jane Doze and an extremely diverse set by Timeflies.

The crowd was electric when The Jane Doze came on stage. The pair of DJs fed off of the crowd’s energy, and tossed out bracelets and glow sticks. The crowd bounced up and down throughout the whole set, hitting a high during the duo’s remix of PSY’s “Gangnam Style.”

When the lights dimmed for the second time, the crowd knew it was time for Timeflies but, interestingly enough, music continued for almost ten minutes before they came on stage.

Once they walked on, the fans roared. Cal Shapiro of Timeflies opened the set with their song “Lose My Mind.” He then won the crowd over by telling the audience that he planned to go all night to make up for their lack of time during their last show at the TLA.

Unfortunately, that all night that he spoke of, really meant to about 10:30.

That said, the crowd was very active throughout the whole show, singing and rapping along with the lyrics. The highlight of the night though came as Shapiro delivered an extremely impressive freestyle, which was full of Philadelphia references. He not only named almost every college in the Philadelphia area but included insults to Eli Manning and a line about the Flyers goalie, Bryzgalov.

After telling the crowd that they were done, which elicited a deafening “one more song” chant, Timeflies came back to the stage to rattle off two encore tracks, “Taylor” and “Under the Sea.”

As the show came to a close, the crowd left with a few U-S-A chants and lots of tweets and talk of that being the one of the craziest concerts in the brief memory of most of the largely high school and college-age audience.